Jeffrey Hill

[Satellite TODAY 11-25-10] Commercial aerospace services provider Astrotech Corp. has won a fully-funded task order under the U.S. Department of Defense’s $35 million Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB) indefinite delivery, […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-25-10] Russian services provider VimpelCom has purchased C-band capacity from SES World Skies’ NSS-9 satellite, the operator announced Nov. 24.     VimpelCom said 36MHz of C-band capacity and […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-25-10] Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has shipped the Hispasat 1E communications satellite, designed and built for Hispasat Group, to Arianespace’s launch facility in Kourou, French Guiana, where it is […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-25-10] Due to the Thanksgiving holiday, Satellite TODAY‘s Daily News Feed will not publish on Fri., Nov. 26. We will resume our normal publishing schedule on Mon., Nov. […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-24-10] U.S. satellite pay-TV competitors DirecTV and Dish Network are planning to enter a joint deal with a media buyer to allow interactive advertisements to flow to both […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-24-10] The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Commercial Space Transportation has issued SpaceX a license to re-enter a spacecraft from orbit, making SpaceX the first commercial […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-24-10] TerreStar has initiated the full commercial launch of its Genus dual-network smartphone to all consumers, the company announced Nov. 23.     The Genus smartphone has been available […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-24-10] Flavien Bachabi has been appointed to head Intelsat’s Luxembourg headquarters office as vice president of business operations and intergovernmental initiatives, Intelsat announced Nov. 23.     Bachabi will […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 11-23-10] Demand for Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) services will be worth $224.5 billion by 2020, according to a study released Nov. 22 by the European GNSS […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-23-10] International Launch Services (ILS) scheduled the launch of Eutelsat’s Ka-Sat satellite for Dec. 20 after the spacecraft arrived at the Baikonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan this weekend, the […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-23-10] Integral Systems’ wholly owned subsidiary SAT Corp. received more than $3 million in new contract awards from government, military and commercial satellite operators, SAT Corp. announced Nov. […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-23-10] Hughes Network Systems has been contracted by Hercules Offshore to equip its entire Class 120 to Class 230 liftboat fleet in the Gulf of Mexico with Hughes […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-23-10] ViaSat has selected Tecom Industries’ KuStream 1500 antenna system for integration into a communication system onboard a Boeing C-17 aircraft to support high data rates for transmission […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-23-10] The U.S. Department of Defense’s STPSat-2 satellite has launched from the Kodiak Launch Complex, Alaska on board a Minotaur 4 rocket, the U.S. Air Force announced Nov. […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-23-10] United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched a classified satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), marking its fourth successful flight of a Delta 4 Heavy rocket, the […]

[Satellite News 11-23-10] In coming years, the U.S. Department of Defense and other agencies of the federal government are expected to increase their dependence on commercial satellite services to augment […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-22-10] Prime contractor Thales Alenia Space and its partner OHB-System have been given the green light to begin work on the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) system from the […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-22-10] Com Dev USA was awarded a $6 million contract to provide UHF passive microwave equipment for a U.S. government satellite payload, the company announced Nov. 19.     […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-22-10] United Launch Alliance (ULA) is set to launch a classified U.S. National Reconnaissance Office satellite on a Delta 4 Heavy rocket this evening from Cape Canaveral Air […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-22-10] Satellite data service provider Global Marine Networks (GMN) introduced its WebXaccelerator product for ship-to-shore and remote communications needs in the commercial fishing, marine transport, cruise ships, offshore […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-19-10] Bloomberg Television selected Arqiva to provide dedicated European satellite newsgathering (SNG) services, Arqiva announced Dec. 18.     Bloomberg will have dedicated use of an Arqiva SNG truck, […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-19-10] Sensio Technologies Inc. signed an agreement with Canadaian cable company Videotron to provide 3-D technology for the launch of Videotron’s 3-D content offering in December, Sensio announced […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-19-10] Net Insight formed a partnership with ATCi to enhance transportation of services via satellite and fiber-linked components across America, the companies announced Nov. 17.     The partnership […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-19-10] Globecomm Systems Inc. was awarded a systems contract from an unnamed U.S. government agency, the company announced Nov. 18.     Under the contract, valued at $3.3 million, […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-18-10] Viewsat, a provider of global broadcast and transmission services for television and radio channels, extended its contract with Intelsat to lease video capacity at 68.5 degrees East […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 11-18-10] Satellite semiconductor-based components and subsystems provider Emcore continues to battle back from a brutal first half this year and has received a revolving credit facility from […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-18-10] Northrop Grumman was selected by NASA as one of five contractors for the Modular Space Vehicles (MSV) program, Northrop Grumman announced Nov. 17.    The indefinite delivery, […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-18-10] Canadian information solutions provider MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has released its National Urban Change Indicator – a new geospatial product that provides coverage over the lower […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-18-10] Uplogix, a provider of network management automation, and mobile satellite and antenna solutions provider Winegard have partnered to develop interoperability between their products to reduce support costs […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-17-10] Hughes do Brasil, the Brazilian operating unit of Hughes Network Systems, signed a contract with PrimeNet to be a reseller of Hughes broadband satellite Internet access service […]