Author: Jeffrey Hill

[Satellite News 12-12-08] President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team is considering what it calls, “not-yet-refined technology,” which includes solar energy-collecting satellites, as part of its energy plan, according to the administration’s...

[Satellite News 12-09-08] Intelsat has formed a joint venture with a South African investor group to finance a satellite to serve the growing communications market in Africa.     The joint...

[Satellite News 12-08-08] Arqiva’s occasional-use satellite and Web distribution services helped The Armenia Fund’s Thanksgiving telethon raise a record-breaking $35 million in 2008 to help rebuild Armenia.     Produced on...

[Satellite News 12-05-08] In developing a satellite antenna enabling vehicles to receive the new mobile AT&T CruiseCast TV service, RaySat had to overcome several problems that plagued some of its...

[Satellite News 12-03-08] Despite concern from some analysts over how the credit crunch would affect satellite industry customers, Iridium reported its best quarter for number of units shipped in the...

[Satellite Today 12-02-08] Ambient Electro-Magnetic Interference (EMI) testing was completed on the Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Sensor (VIIRS) for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), Raytheon Co. announced...

[Satellite News 12-01-08] ViaSat has made significant progress in developing its Blue Force Tracking (BFT) upgrade for the U.S. Army, according to Ric Vandermeulen, the company’s director of government broadband....

[Satellite News 11-26-08] Developers of integrated satellite-terrestrial handsets and modules are very excited about how the consumer market is responding to their technology, but the companies acknowledge having to address...

[Satellite News 11-24-08] Space Exploration Technology Corp.’s (SpaceX) Hawthorne, Calif. facility is a remodeled Boeing hangar where engines for the 747 aircraft were once manufactured. The only elements left from...

[Satellite News 11-14-08] The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted a request by TerreStar Networks for further extensions of the company’s launch and operational milestones, TerreStar announced Nov. 14....