Jeffrey Hill

There are roughly 110 million households in the United States, and 16.5 million of those are in rural communities — areas of the country that have a population density of […]

[Satellite Today 03-06-09] Qtel, a telecommunication solutions provider based in Qatar, has launched a new global Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network (IP VPN) service for local, regional and international business, […]

[Satellite Today 03-06-09] Assemblyman Joel Anderson (R-Ca.), has tabled a bill to the California State Assembly that would the force the blurring of satellite images of many buildings of schools, […]

E-Vision, a cable TV provider and part of Etisalat, has launched a High-Definition (HD) service offering content through HD setup boxes which are provided by the company, E-Vision announced Mar. […]

[Satellite News 03-04-09] U.S. Congress has scheduled to review and reauthorize cable and satellite copyright license laws associated with pay-TV in 2009 after the U.S. Copyright Office recommended the elimination […]

[Satellite Today 02-27-09] OpenTV, a middleware and interactive solutions provider, reached full-year profitability for the first time in the company’s history, OpenTV announced Feb. 25.     The company recorded a […]

[Satellite News 02-25-09] AsiaSat has backed out of a launch contract with Sea Launch,  moving its AsiaSat-5 satellite because Sea Launch could not provide the customer with a desirable timeframe, […]

[Satellite News 02-24-09] The broadband stimulus bill included in President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is having a variety of effects on several sectors of the commercial satellite industry […]

[Satellite News 02-20-09] Pierre Parent, vice president and general manager of Numerex Satellite Solutions, is working on developing a hybrid satellite and radio frequency identification (RFID) system for the commercial […]

[Satellite News 02-19-09] Integral Systems CEO John Higginbotham believes the collision of an Iridium commercial satellite with a defunct Russian military satellite on Feb. 10 was an event that will […]

[Satellite News 02-17-09] Liberty Media Corp. signed a last-minute agreement to loan Sirius XM Radio the funding it needs to avoid bankruptcy, beating EchoStar to a deal it had been […]

ViaSat received a contract modification from the U.S. Army — through prime contractor Globecomm Systems Inc. — to modify the Joint-Internet Protocol Modem to enable it to operate as the […]

L-3 Electron Technologies received combined orders totaling nearly $1 million for the development of a high-efficiency 600-watt Ka-band communications helix traveling wave tube.     The airborne platform communications technology orders […]

Enerdyne Technologies, a ViaSat company, will supply its EnerLinks2 digital video over analog (DVA) data link technology to Insitu Inc. for use in its Integrator and next-generation ScanEagle unmanned aerial […]

A team led by Raytheon Co. completed a segment design review and modernized capability engineering for the U.S. Air Force‘s next-generation GPS control segment (GPS OCX).     Working under a […]

Lockheed Martin‘s Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO-1) satellite has completed baseline integrated system testing of new flight software that enables command and control operations.     The flight software […]

In 2010, the U.S. Army Logistics Innovation Agency (LIA) will leverage global communications integrator Arinc’s Asset Assure wireless satellite tracking systems to provide weapons manufacturers and intermediaries with real-time global […]

NATO’s demands for bandwidth are increasing, and the organization has been tapping into the benefits of IP technologies to help in operations, said Malcolm Green, chief of CAT 9 communication […]

President Obama is pursuing a global ban on space-based weapons while promising to protect U.S. satellites from harm, according to a Jan. 26 announcement from the White House.     The […]

MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) conducted its first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight in Afghanistan Jan. 1.     Flight operations are underway from Kandahar Airfield for the Canadian Department of […]

ViaSat Inc. and the U.S. Army extended the vehicular Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT2) demonstration with U.S. Army Aviation BFT2 demonstrations aboard a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter.     ViaSat’s ArcLight BFT2 […]

A team led by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman sent its SpaceWire data bus technology for preliminary design review.     The development marks a milestone in the risk reduction phase […]

Proactive Communications Inc. (PCI) signed a $2 million contract negotiation with Australian-based operator NewSat to provide a unified communications solution to customers in Afghanistan.     The three-year deal will expand […]

Vizada won a contract with Delta Wave Communications to supply the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers with Inmarsat and Iridium mobile satellite communications services in the United States and overseas. […]

Boeing received a $75 million contract extension from the U.S. Air Force to continue risk reduction and system definition for the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT). The six-month contract extension […]

[Satellite News 02-06-09] President Obama is pursuing a global ban on space-based weapons while promising to protect U.S. satellites from harm, according to a Jan. 26 announcement from the White […]

[Satellite News 02-03-09] In its current form, President Obama’s nearly $6 billion proposed Broadband Stimulus Bill mentions satellite applications only twice in its 258 pages.     The first mention of […]

[Satellite Today 02-03-09] PeopleNet has chosen Quake Global to provide satellite communicators for its dual-mode wireless asset tracking, communication, and management system, Quake announced Feb. 2.     PeopleNet will be […]

[Satellite News 01-29-09] Eutelsat not integrate the W2M satellite into its fleet after the satellite experienced a major anomaly affecting its power subsystem, leading to what is likely to be […]

[Satellite News 01-27-09] The results of a pair ABI Research studies along with several deals backed by major companies may point to a healthy future for GPS-enabled handsets and applications. […]