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Aireon Signs New Investors in Europe, Gains $120M in Equity Aireon has entered into binding agreements with three new investors and major Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs): ENAV (Italy), the...

Thales Alenia Space to Provide Government Satcom System to Brazil Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with Visiona (a joint venture between Embraer and Telebras) for the Geostationary Defense...

Orbcomm and Hub Group Launch Container Tracking and Monitoring Solution Orbcomm has signed a multi-year agreement with Hub Group to deploy Orbcomm’s GT 2300 intermodal container tracking and monitoring platform....

Certainly, 2013 was a momentous year for the satellite industry with many highlights such as O3b finally launching its first satellites, Eutelsat and Arabsat making major acquisitions, the launch of...

The final three of eighteen primary mirrors built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have arrived at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.for integration prior...

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. (“MACOM”), a leading supplier of high performance RF, microwave, and millimeter wave products, announced a new Upconverter that is ideally suited for 18 and 23 GHz...

Visiona signed contracts on December 12 with Thales Alenia Space (TAS) and Arianespace, which have respectively agreed to furnish a satellite and its launching. The contact with the satellite supplier...

Lockheed Martin has a rich heritage in the space industry but in recent years it has concentrated more on its domestic government business rather than being a commercial force around the world. However, with

Its been a tough year for MSS operators in all segments of the market. Government business has been down as a result of the drawdown in Afghanistan and the sequester in the United States, the shipping industry

On Sept. 11, 2013 the European Commission announced the adoption of what it described as the “most ambitious plan in 26 years of telecoms market reform.” The “Connected Continent” legislative...