Author: Jeffrey Hill

Over the next 10 years, the U.S. Department of Defense could spend as much as $1 billion to piggyback its communications onto hosted payloads featured on commercial satellites. The U.S....

Commercial operators will see an estimated $106.2 million in hosted payload equipment revenues in 2012, including engineering services and commercial satellite operator hosting services, according to a recent research report...

Via Satellite and the SATELLITE show group recently announced the opening of registration for our second annual Hosted Payload Summit in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 27. The event was created...

Spaceflight Inc. has unveiled its Sherpa in-space tug vehicle to inject hosted payloads into different orbits.     The Sherpa 400 is optimized for low Earth orbit (LEO) missions. The company will...

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) is soliciting ancillary payloads for its upcoming Orbital Test-Bed (OTB) mission that will be launched in the first quarter of 2015.    The OTB mission...

ATK has confirmed the retirement of the Tactical Satellite-3 (TacSat-3) spacecraft, which was de-orbited to burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere on April 30 – nearly three years after its...

Lockheed Martin has named Robert Cleave its new president of Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services (LMCLS) effective May 1.     Cleave succeeds Jack Zivic who is retiring at the end...

[Satellite News 05-07-12] Pendrell subsidiary ICO Global Communications has filed a petition with the California District Court of Appeals seeking a rehearing of a decision it made in April that...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 05-05-12] GeoEye has made an offer to acquire its rival satellite imagery company DigitalGlobe for $792.3 million in cash and stocks, GeoEye CEO Matt O’Connell announced during...

[Satellite TODAY 05-05-12] ATK reported a five percent, year-over-year decline in its 2012 full-year sales at $4.6 billion, which was in line with its 2012 full year guidance, according to...