Jeffrey Hill

[Satellite TODAY 05-12-11] SpaceX hired former Broadcom Corp. financial executive Bret Johnsen as its new CFO, the company announced May 11. Johnsen, who previously served as CFO of Mindspeed Technologies, […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 05-11-11] Geospatial information solutions company GeoEye reported better-than-expected 2011 first quarter financial results and raised its 2011 full-year guidance, the company announced May 10. The news comes […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-11-11] Russian state satellite operator Russian Satellite Communications Co. (RSCC) signed a memorandum of understanding with Eutelsat, which will expand their strategic satellite partnership, Eutelsat announced May 10. […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-11-11] Loral Space & Communications generated $67.8 million in 2011 first quarter net income, which more than doubled its $29.4 million intake during the same period in 2010, […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-11-11] Healthy satellite service customer base growth helped Iridium Communications drive $8.3 million in profits during the first quarter of 2011 compared to the company’s net loss of […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-11-11] Hughes Network Systems completed its deployment of several HX System broadband satellite networks for Microcom, a service provider in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Hughes […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-11-11] C-Com Satellite Systems said it has received its largest iNetVu mobile antenna products order to date from its Japanese reseller Telemann Communications in Tokyo, the Candian satellite […]

[Satellite News 05-11-11] Two-way machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and automatic identification system (AIS) service specialist Orbcomm broke its yearlong subscriber growth streak in the first quarter of 2011 by falling 4,000 […]

The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) expressed “serious concerns” over defense budget spending outlined through the end of the 2011 fiscal year in a U.S. congress resolution passed in April.     […]

The Russian military successfully launched its Meridian 4 communications satellite May 4 on a Soyuz-2.1a rocket from the Plesetsk space center. The satellite, representing the fourth in a series of […]

Riverbed Technology has contracted iDirect Government Technologies (iGT) to resell its wide area network (WAN) optimization and network visibility solutions for U.S. government and military satellite networks, iDirect announced May […]

Integral Systems’ Military and Intelligence Group (MIG) has been awarded approximately $21.8 million in multiple contracts from unnamed U.S. military and government agencies in the company’s 2011 second quarter, Integral […]

ViaSat and STM Group successfully demonstrated waveform interoperability between the STM SatLink 2000 modem and the ViaSat Joint Internet Protocol Modem (JIPM) for the U.S. Department of Defense, the companies […]

Raytheon BBN Technologies was awarded $10 million in U.S. Department of Defense funding to develop technical solutions that will help maintain command and control systems for the U.S. Defense Advanced […]

U.S. Space has been awarded a $291,000 contract by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center to study feasible acquisition alternatives to satisfy military satellite communication needs, the […]

Comtech EF Data received a $1.2 million order for satellite ground station communications equipment from an unnamed systems integrator, which will deploy the equipment to support a Latin American military […]

EMS Defense & Space received a follow-on contract from Boeing to design and fully integrate a power divider and a splitter combiner assembly for the seventh flight set of the […]

Canadian information solutions provider MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates’ (MDA) U.S. operation signed a multi-million dollar agreement with Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems to provide advanced technology solutions for its 702HP […]

Northrop Grumman’s Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration satellites completed an Airborne Laser Test Bed exercise as part of a U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) development program for future […]

Hughes Network Systems’ HX280 satellite router has achieved Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 security level-2 certification from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).     The certification […]

Satellite-based managed network service provider Globecomm Systems acquired independent testing and long-term application developer ComSource for $20 million on April 8, continuing Globecomm’s shift from hardware provider to software developer. […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 05-10-11] Nine out of 10 telecoms firms are restructuring their businesses to connect vertical markets offerings and grow top-line revenues, according to an Informa Telecoms & Media […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-10-11] United Launch Alliance (ULA) has successfully launched the Space Based Infrared System SBIRS GEO-1 U.S. military satellite into orbit on an unmanned Atlas 5 rocket from the […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-10-11] Sky Italia contracted video contribution and distribution solutions provider T-VIPS to deliver its TVG425 MPEG Transport Stream and the TVG450 JPEG2000 video gateways to the broadcaster, T-VIPS […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-10-11] GlobeCast and Japan International Broadcasting (JIB) have launched NHK World HD on the Sky and Freesat platforms in the United Kingdom, the companies announced May 9. GlobeCast is […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-10-11] Earth imagery solutions provider DigitalGlobe has entered into a cooperative agreement with the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and German tourism company 3D RealityMaps to provide a range […]

[Satellite News 05-10-11] FSS operator Intelsat increased its 2011 first quarter revenues 3 percent (or $19 million) year-over-year at $640.2 million compared to $621.1 million in the same period last […]

[Satellite News 05-09-11] Inmarsat reported a 15 percent increase in its 2011 first-quarter revenue at $323.9 million compared with the same period last year, boosted by growth in its maritime […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 05-08-11] Hughes posted a 9 percent increase in 2011 first quarter revenues at $264 million compared with the same period last year, backed by a 15 percent […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-08-11] Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) has completed the installation of key ground station equipment for the Astrium-led Earth observation hub project at the International Space Innovation Center […]