Jeffrey Hill

[Satellite News 04-19-11] NASA has distributed $269 million to four U.S. commercial launch companies as part of the Obama administration’s National Space Policy to develop domestic alternatives to send astronauts […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 04-18-11] A number of catalysts developing in the next several months should propel Iridium Communications’ long-term financial outlook, according to Raymond James Analyst Chris Quilty, who predicts […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-11] 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 […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-11] United Launch Alliance (ULA) has launched a new U.S. spy satellite on an Atlas 5 rocket to support a secret national security mission for the U.S. National […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-11] Esri has signed a strategic contract with GeoEye to license a large supply of GeoEye’s high-resolution Ikonos archive imagery, the satellite imagery provider announced April 15.     […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-11] ITT Corp. has completed a critical design review for DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 satellite imaging payload at its facilities in Rochester, N.Y., ITT announced April 15.     ITT said […]

ITT Corp. has completed a critical design review for DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 satellite imaging payload at its facilities in Rochester, N.Y., ITT announced April 15.     ITT said the review was […]

Esri has signed a strategic contract with GeoEye to license a large supply of GeoEye’s high-resolution Ikonos archive imagery, the satellite imagery provider announced April 15.     Esri said it […]

Raytheon Technical Services Co., a subsidiary of Raytheon, has formed a team to bid on the U.S. Air Force’s Launch and Test Range System Integrated Support Contract, Raytheon announced April […]

Arianespace plans to launch the Yahsat 1A and Intelsat New Dawn satellites April 22.     The initial launch attempt on April 11 was halted in the final seconds before liftoff […]

RapidEye has entered into an agreement with Canadian reseller Iunctus Geomatics to add the company to its distribution network and authorize Iunctus as a RapidEye product representative in the United […]

Raytheon won a $177 million contract modification with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to continue deployment of the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) under the administration’s terminal automation […]

The Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) has launched its 2011 European Satellite Navigation competition for the Taiwanese region, ITRI announced March 25.     The institute said the competition would focus […]

Hughes Network Systems is supporting the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) robotics competition at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., the company announced […]

GeoScan is forming plans for a potential global Earth-observation network using hosted payloads on Iridium’s next-generation satellite constellation, Iridium Next, the mobile satellite service provider announced March 16.     This […]

GeoEye’s $3.8 billion EnhancedView contract with the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) helped the satellite imagery provider increase its 2010 revenues 22 percent from 2009 to $330.3 million, the company […]

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration‘s (FAA) initiative to upgrade its air traffic control system and communications network over the next few years has given the satellite civil space sector a […]

[Satellite News 04-18-11] Satellite pay-TV and telecom operators France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom have established a joint venture that will oversee about $13 billion in combined annualized spending between the […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-15-11] SES World Skies signed a deal with Axesat intended to provide capacity for growing corporate service demand across Latin America and the Caribbean, SES World Skies announced […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-15-11] The imaging payload for DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 satellite passed the critical design review, manufacturer ITT Corp., announced April 14.     DigitalGlobe is developing WorldView-3 under a 10-year, $3.5 […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-15-11] Sat-Comm awarded a contract to Rohde & Schwarz to provide spectrum analyzers for use in satellite newsgathering vehicles, Rohde & Schwarz announced April 14.     Under the […]

BBC Worldwide contracted GlobeCast to provide playout and media workflow services for four of the broadcaster’s Polish-language channels from GlobeCast’s London media management and delivery hub, GlobeCast announced.     GlobeCast […]

Sky Deutschland has reached a deal with HD Plus in Germany to expand the offering of HD channels to its satellite pay-TV subscribers.      The deal, announced April 11, notes […]

Digital media tools and workflow solutions provider Telestream has released an upgraded version of its Pipeline video capture system, the company announced.     Pipeline 2.5 was designed to function as […]

Nagra, an independent provider of value-added content protection solutions, has secured a contract with Italian broadcaster Mediaset to provide its over-the-top (OTT) video-on-demand solutions to Mediaset subscribers, Nagra announced April […]

Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel hopes its slew of new Hollywood studio contracts to bring movies to Foxtel subscribers in a similar timeframe with DVD releases will help the company recover […]

Some people in the broadcasting sector thought the migration to digital would make managing workflows easier. Others, like resource management software developers, knew they had a brand new growth market […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-14-11] NewSat expanded its executive management team with the appointment of David Ball as CTO, the company announced April 13.     The company decided to increase its team […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-14-11] Raytheon Technical Services Co., a subsidiary of Raytheon, has formed a team to bid on the U.S. Air Force’s Launch and Test Range System Integrated Support Contract, […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-14-11] Advantech Wireless signed a contract with Hoje Telecom of Brazil to provide a VSAT upgrade hub, RF equipment and more than 1,000 remote terminals, Advantech announced April […]