Author: Jeffrey Hill

[Satellite TODAY 03-28-12] Hughes Network Systems has received an order for more than 2,000 of its HX satellite terminals from Saudi Arabian broadband service provider Skyband, the customer announced March...

[Satellite TODAY 03-28-12] Thomson Broadcast has hosted a successful test of the DVB-T2 Lite standard, which aims to extend and improve the standard’s performance for mobile reception, Thomson announced March...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-27-12] International Launch Services (ILS) successfully placed the Intelsat 22 satellite into a super-synchronous transfer orbit onboard a Proton M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan...

[Satellite TODAY 03-27-12] Russian engineers intentionally crashed the Express AM4 communications satellite and have declared the mission a total loss, Russian space officials announced March 26.    The satellite has...

[Satellite TODAY 03-27-12] High-resolution earth imagery provider DigitalGlobe has signed two licensing agreements with Microsoft, the company confirmed March 26.    The first agreement more than doubles the volume of...

[Satellite TODAY 03-27-12] Scandinavian Avionics has integrated and distributed OnAir/TriaGnoSys in-flight connectivity solutions on a Tupolev VIP jet based in Russia, the companies announced March 26.    The turnkey solution...

[Satellite TODAY 03-27-12] iDirect Government Technologies has released a satellite router that meets strict airborne communications requirements for operation on military aircraft, the company announced March 26.    The new...

[Satellite News 03-27-12] Russian Satellite Communications Co. (RSCC) has commissioned two telecommunications spacecraft, Express-AM7 and Express-AM4R from European satellite manufacturer Astrium, RSCC officials confirmed March 27.    The two satellites...

[Satellite News 03-27-12] Israel’s Novelsat burst onto the satellite bandwidth optimization market last year in a quest to improve the spectral efficiency of DVB-S2 with its NS3T satellite transmission modulation...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-26-12] Lockheed Martin confirmed March 23 that the Global Positioning System 3 (GPS 3) satellites it is building for the Air Force Space Command are “on schedule,...