Author: Jeffrey Hill

The Pentagon’s plan to reduce military spending by $487 billion over the next decade was met with serious concern in the space sector after it was published Jan. 27 as...

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is set award about $36 million in contracts to companies interested in building system components for its Phoenix program, which aims to retrofit...

The delay of the U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite program, originally planned kick off its first satellite in late 2009, should come as no surprise to the...

[Satellite TODAY 02-13-12] Abu Dhabi-based satellite company YahLive has commenced broadcasts of the entertainment station High TV 3D, the company announced Feb. 10.    The 24-hour channel broadcasts news, television...

[Satellite TODAY 02-13-12] Social networking service Twitter has entered into a partnership with MSS satellite operators Iridium and Thuraya to give their subscribers access to SMS text-based Twitter services, the...

[Satellite TODAY 02-13-12] ViaSat is phasing out the brand of its subsidiary WildBlue and directing resellers to refrain from mentioning or selling the service by name, according to a report...

[Satellite TODAY 02-13-12] The European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace are set to launch their first Vega rocket Feb. 13 in a qualification flight from the Kourou spaceport in French...

[Satellite TODAY 02-13-12] Satellite radio broadcaster Sirius XM generated a 7 percent increase in 2011 full year revenues at $3 billion – a 7 percent increase compared to $2.82 billion...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 02-10-12] Iridium Communications has utilized its global OpenPort maritime broadband to support the launch of a second-generation maritime broadband platform, the MSS operator announced Feb. 9.  ...

[Satellite TODAY 02-10-12] Geospatial information solution provider GeoEye has successfully completed the last of four critical design reviews in its EnhancedView program for the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the...