Jeffrey Hill

[Satellite TODAY 03-22-13] Mitsubishi Electric has completed an expansion of its satellite production facility at the company’s Kamakura Works in Kamakura, Japan. Mitsubishi said the upgraded facility aims to double […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-22-13] While speaking on a military satcom panel at the Satellite 2013 conference, United States Army CIO G6 Space and Airborne Branch Senior Milsatcom Systems Analyst Edward Aymar […]

Tags: Estonia, Cubesat, Arianespace, Vega, ESTCube-1 Publication: Space-Travel.com Publication Date: 03/22/2013 Estonia’s student cubesat satellite is ready for the next Vega launch. The tiny spacecraft passenger for Vega’s upcoming Flight […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-22-13] Harris Corporation has partnered with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to develop and successfully deploy the Product Anomaly, Ticket, Relationship, Organization, and Notification (PATRON) – […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-21-13] Hughes Network Systems waited until the final day of SATELLITE 2013 to drop its biggest announcement of the year – the broadband satellite solutions and services provider […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-21-13] If NovelSat CEO Itzik Wulkan is correct in his assessment, the demand for international satellite bandwidth services will have increased 2,000 percent in a 10-year timespan between […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-20-13] It was a unusally friendly launch services panel at SATELLITE 2013, featuring a mostly new set of leaders from Arianespace, International Launch Services (ILS), Lockheed Martin Commercial […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-19-13] In-orbit servicing provider ViviSat has unveiled a highly agile hosted payload capability that aims to supplement its life extension services, the company announced March 19. ViviSat uses […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-19-13] Satellite services provider Echostar has contracted Sea Launch to orbit a satellite on a Zenit-3SL vehicle from its Pacific Ocean-based Odyssey platform in 2015.     In a […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-19-13] SATELLITE 2013’s “big four” FSS panel consisting of the world’s largest fixed satellite operators is usually an opportunity for the industry to gauge what new threats they […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-18-13] European commercial launch provider Arianespace has signed a launch services contract with FSS operator Intelsat that will send three of its satellites into orbit through 2017. The […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-18-13] Hughes Network Systems has successfully demonstrated high-throughput video and data transmission over satcom links on a variety of rotary wing platforms, employing its own advanced waveform technology. […]

Egyptian cabinet agrees to reassess 2011 ban on issuing permits for new privately-owned satellite channels.

[Satellite TODAY 03-15-13] Enterprise global satellite and cellular data communications solutions Orbcomm has acquired value-added resellers GlobalTrak and MobileNet for a combined cash purchase price of nearly $8 million, including […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-15-13] The SATELLITE 2013 conference and exhibition is set to kick off Monday, March 18 with full-day pre-conference sessions focusing on the industry’s latest technical and engineering challenges. […]

It is a perennial problem in military operations that there is never enough satellite capacity to satisfy commanders’ gargantuan appetite for voice and data communications.

[Satellite TODAY 03-13-13] Hughes Network Systems has rolled out its Jupiter high-throughput technology to the global market, beginning with its the HN9600 and HN9800 Ka-band satellite routers, the company announced […]

Satellite companies with exposure to Defense Department and broader government budgets in the United States should expect to see incremental headwinds as across-the-board cuts as a result of government sequestration […]

Abu Dhabi Ship Building (ADSB), provider of construction, repair and refit services for naval, military and commercial vessels, and Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (YahSat) have been awarded a contract […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has unveiled initial development details from its Phoenix Program, which aims to recycle older, non-functional satellites for repurposing. The agency launched a video […]

The Air Force Space and Missile Center’s Defense Weather Systems Directorate has signed a contract with Millennium Space Systems for a 12-month research program on Systems and Spacecraft for space-based […]

Boeing has shipped its fifth Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite, which aims to provide faster transmission of airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance imagery to the United States Air Force. WGS-5 […]

TS2 Satellite Technologies has expanded its Internet service in Afghanistan using Avanti’s Hylas 2 satellite, which is equipped with Ka bandwidth transponders that enable bidirectional data transmission and additional services […]

The Hosted Payload Alliance (HPA) has selected Janet Nickloy, director of Aerospace Mission Solutions for Harris Corporation, as its 2013 chair.    The HPA fosters dialogue between the government and […]

Inmarsat has announced the expansion of mobile tactical Beyond-Line-of-Sight (BLOS) communications to a broader range of new government users through the company’s L-band satellites.    The company plans to launch […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-13-13] Boeing has shipped its fifth Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite, which aims to provide faster transmission of airborne intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance imagery to the United States […]

The Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s Defense Weather Systems Directorate has chosen Harris Corporation to conduct a study and make recommendations to help modernize the U.S. Defense Meteorological […]

The Pentagon has awarded Lockheed Martin Space Systems two contracts to produce the Space-Based Infrared Systems GEO 5-6 satellite (SBIRS) and purchase materials needed to construct its seventh and eighth […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-12-13] Canadian mobile auto-deploying satellite antenna manufacturer C-COM Satellite Systems reported its eighth consecutive profitable year in 2012, increasing its quarterly dividend by approximately 33 percent compared to […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-12-13] Global imagery provider DigitalGlobe has awarded Richmond-based communications and information company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) a contract from to produce and provide a ground station solution, […]