Jeffrey Hill

[Satellite News 09-06-10] Not even half a year ago, Canadian satellite company Com Dev International was projecting 10 percent revenue growth by the end of 2010. By June, the company […]

[Satellite News 08-31-10] The U.S. Military’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency 1 (AEHF 1) satellite, which experienced a main engine shut down shortly after its initial orbit burn on Aug. 30, […]

[Satellite News 08-30-10] The Obama administration has completed a Category 7 U.S. Munitions List review of tanks and military vehicles, which determined that about 74 percent of the 12,000 military […]

[Satellite News 08-26-10] For the past two years, 3-D broadcast technology for the average consumer was mostly discussed in the future tense, providing satellite broadcasters and developers with a promising […]

[Satellite News 08-24-10] In August alone, Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems has seen a flurry of commercial and military satellite activity, winning over $1 billion in new satellite manufacturing contracts, […]

[Satellite News 08-24-10] While the U.S. paid TV industry, as a whole, lost 216,000 customers in the second quarter of 2010, satellite providers DirecTV and Dish Network added about 81,000 […]

The third Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) military communications satellite, WGS-3, has entered service for the U.S. Air Force, completing the military’s Block 1 constellation, designed to deliver improved broadband communications […]

In a decision that shocked analysts and even the competitors, the U.S. Army awarded ViaSat the Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT-2) contract to upgrade 100,000 Army vehicles with a next-generation […]

[Satellite News 08-10-10] Iridium Communications saw its billable subscriber base grow 16.8 percent to about 383,000 in its 2010 second quarter, with growth coming from several of its product areas, […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-11-10] ViaSat made strategic gains in its 2011 first quarter with its Blue Force Tracking 2 contract win and the ViaSat-1 program, but government cost overruns and program […]

[Satellite News 08-03-10] The U.S. Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released a report July 26 urging U.S. policymakers to extend assured access to space privileges enjoyed by government-owned […]

[Satellite News 08-03-10] The third Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) military communications satellite, WGS-3, has entered service for the U.S. Air Force, completing the military’s Block 1 constellation, designed to deliver […]

[Satellite News 07-27-10] In a decision that shocked analysts and even the competitors, the U.S. Army awarded ViaSat the Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT-2) contract to upgrade 100,000 Army vehicles […]

[Satellite News 07-27-10] Despite a limited market slowdown, the fixed satellite market reached a new high in revenues last year, according to an upcoming Euroconsult report, announced July 27.     […]

[Satellite News 07-23-10] Comtech CEO Fred Kornberg said his company plans to file an appeal with the U.S. Government Accountability Office over the U.S. Army’s Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT-2) […]

[Satellite News 07-21-10] Comtech Mobile Datacom expects the U.S. Army to announce its multi-year $200 million Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT2) contract winner by end of the month, and one […]

[Satellite News 07-20-10] Harbinger Capital’s eight-year, $7 billion contract with Nokia Siemens Networks to build and operate a 4G LTE satellite and mobile broadband network for wireless providers may be […]

[Satellite News 07-20-10] The global mobile value-added-service (VAS) industry, which produced revenues of $200 billion in 2009, will see revenues jump to $340 billion by 2014, according to a report […]

[Satellite News 07-19-10] While the United States remains the global leader in space industry competitiveness, its position has diminished throughout past three years due to growing cooperation in the international […]

[Satellite News 07-14-10] The global video encoders market will exceed $1.0 billion by the year 2015, according to a global market report released July 13 by Global Industry Analysts (GIA). […]

[Satellite News 07-09-10] The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) shut down half of the transponders on the Insat-4B communications satellite after it suffered a solar panel power glitch July 7 […]

[Satellite News 06-28-10] U.S. President Barack Obama’s new National Space Policy (NSP) will contain measures to double the available amount of spectrum for wireless communications over the next 10 years […]

[Satellite News 06-21-10] Questions over the financial feasibility of global MSS satellite company Iridium Communications’ Iridium Next constellation have been answered by the securing of a $1.8 billion credit facility […]

[Satellite News 06-10-10] On the first day of its military Commercial Broadband Satellite Program (CBSP) performance period, contract winner Intelsat General received an emergency task order from the U.S. Navy […]

[Satellite News 06-07-10] Former CapRock CTO Philip Harlow has found a new position at XTAR as its president and COO, responsible for the growth and strategic direction of XTAR’s global […]

[Satellite News 06-08-10] Consistent with the recovering global economy, the Satellite Industry Association’s (SIA) “State of the Satellite Industry Report,” released June 8, showed continued growth across all satellite sectors […]

What do the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Nashville’s floods, California’s wild fires, vegetation stress and military intelligence operations in Afghanistan have in common? According to DigitalGlobe Vice President of […]

On the first day of its military Commercial Broadband Satellite Program (CBSP) performance period, contract winner Intelsat General received an emergency task order from the U.S. Navy to supply connectivity […]

Former CapRock CTO Philip Harlow has found a new position at XTAR as president and COO, responsible for the growth and strategic direction of Xtar’s global X-band business as well […]

[Satellite News 06-07-10] DigitalGlobe Vice President of U.S. Defense Sales Steve Wood recently secured a one-year Crisis Event Service (CES) imagery agreement with the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), which […]