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[Satellite TODAY 02-22-13] The Vietnamese Government has approved a plan to launch its first remote sensing satellite VNREDSat-1A on Arianespace’s Vega rocket from the European Guiana Space Center in South […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-08-13] Just 24 hours after it successfully launched and orbited six new satellites for Globalstar on its Soyuz-Fregat rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Arianespace successfully carried […]

Arianespace and its Russian Starsem affiliate have successfully launched and orbited six new satellites for Globalstar on its Soyuz-Fregat rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

[Satellite TODAY 02-01-13] Sea Launch failed to loft an Intelsat satellite into orbit early Friday morning after its Zenit 3SL rocket and Ukrainian-built booster experienced an anomaly approximately 40 seconds […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-30-13] SpaceX and Spacecom have reached an agreement to launch Spacecom’s Amos-6 satellite on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch vehicle. Falcon 9 will insert the communications satellite into a […]

Azerspace/Africasat-1 Image credit: Orbital [Satellite TODAY 01-23-13] Azerbaijan’s first telecommunications satellite, Azerspace/Africasat-1, is undergoing pre-start test in French Guiana. Arianespace has stated that the satellite is already in the preparatory […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-11-13] Commercial launch service provider Arianespace had an exceptionally busy year in 2012 with 10 successful launches, but will attempt to top that performance in 2013, utilizing its […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-04-13] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has once again delayed the joint launch of Indian-French satellite SARAL and several Canadian defense satellites. According to ISRO’s Jan. 4 […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-04-13] Arianespace and Astrium have signed a launch contract for the VNREDSat-1A Earth observation satellite, on behalf of the Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, the companies announced […]

The re-election of U.S. President Barack Obama for a second four-year term in a bitterly polarized political climate and era of crisis-level budget deficits can fairly be seen to promise […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-27-12] SpaceX has entered into a launch services agreement with satellite messaging services provider Orbcomm to launch up to 18 Orbcomm second-generation commercial communications satellites currently being constructed […]

Click on the image to watch the video of the third Grasshopper flight. The rocket rose 131 feet for 29-seconds. Image credit: SpaceX [Satellite TODAY 12-26-12] SpaceX’s vertical takeoff and […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-19-12] Satellite manufacturer Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) and Sea Launch have confirmed that the Independent Oversight Board (IOB) formed to investigate the solar array deployment anomaly following launch of […]

Tags: Satellite Launch, VSAT, Azerbaijan, Arianespace, Orbital Sciences Corp. Publication: Trend.az Publication Date: 12/03/2012 Artist’s impression of Azerspace -1. Image credit: Orbital Sciences Corp. Azerbaijan has moved a step losing to having its own […]

Tags: South Korea, Rocket Launch Publication: CNN.com Publication Date: 11/29/2012 This photo provided by Korea Aerospace Research Institute on October 24, 2012 shows the Korea Space Launch Vehicle-I (KSLV-I) on […]

With a series of new developments in electric-propulsion, high-throughput and Ka-band satellites as well as industry consolidation, 2012 has been quite a year in the satellite industry. There have been […]

[Satellite News 11-20-12] So far in 2012, the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) has authorized almost a billion-and-a-half dollars in satellite transactions. Yesterday, the Ex-Im Bank added […]

As I mentioned in the previous OilComm E-daily, attendees at the 2012 OilComm conference in Houston witnessed several transformations of the show compared to last year. One of those changes […]

While oil companies are expanding their bandwidth budgets to accommodate its new, tech-savvy generation of employees, IT and recruitment managers are also expanding their efforts to find the right balance […]

With the satellite industry in the midst of a technological transition period, operators used the exposure of the 2012 OilComm conference to display new possibilities for wide-beam Ku- and C-band […]

TP-Link will provide its registered Value Added Resellers (VAR’s) with free replacement and shipping for any damaged TP-Link products due to Hurricane Sandy, the network product supplier announced Nov. 8. […]

FSS satellite operator SES’s 2012 third-quarter earnings beat market forecasts backed by strong demand for digital and HDTV, which offset losses from Germany’s analog service switch-off, according to the company’s […]

ViaSat has reported its better-than-expected results for the 2013 fiscal second quarter with revenue of $283 million and a loss of $1.9 million or 4 cents a share, excluding charges. […]

Intelsat reported $654.9 million revenue and a net loss of $34.5 million for its 2012 third quarter ending Sept. 30, the satellite service provider announced Nov. 5. XXXXX Intelsat also reported […]

O3b Networks will provide Telecom Cook Islands with bandwidth for high speed Internet connectivity to four additional southern islands in the nation, as well as faster internet to the island […]

Globecomm’s European business unit has introduced a new cloud platform that aims to substitute expensive and complex IT networks with a cost-effective service.    Globecomm Cloud Services provides businesses, government […]

The 2012 OilComm trade show has experienced quite a makeover this year. The show that was previously known as Offshore Communications (a title that is now inaccurate due to the […]

The OilComm 2012 exhibition hall opened Wednesday morning to a wide variety of visions for the future of oil and gas communications. Several satellite and telecom service providers, technology developers […]

OilComm keynote speaker Tuesday morning was Apache Vice President of Global IT Michael Kuykendall, who opened his speech by admitting that his family had finally gotten rid of its landline […]

Inmarsat has signed VSAT terminal supplier L-3 Global Communications Solutions (GCS) as an initial launch partner for land satellite terminals for its future Global Xpress service, the mobile satellite communications […]