Jeffrey Hill

[Satellite TODAY 10-02-12] ASC Signal has won a contract from UAE-based satellite services provider HorizonSat Teleports to provide a seven-antenna turnkey and teleport solution, ASC Signal announced Oct. 1.  The […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-02-12] Hughes Network Systems has activated its new fourth-generation HughesNet high capacity satellite Internet service and has made it available for new subscribers, the company announced Oct. 2.  […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-02-12] Globecomm’s European business unit has introduced a new cloud platform that aims to substitute expensive and complex IT networks with a cost-effective service, the company announced Oct. […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-02-12] Canadian satellite component manufacturer Com Dev International will lay off 31 employees as part of an effort to restructure its Canadian government space division and eliminate uncertainty […]

[Satellite News 10-01-12] Attendees at the Hosted Payload Summit in Washington last week were given a detailed look at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) efforts to extract valuable […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 10-01-12] Iridium Communications issued $100 million of perpetual preferred convertible stock that is non-callable for five years, pays a 7 percent cash dividend, and converts at a […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-01-12] Arianespace successfully launched its 51st Ariane 5 launch in a row, placing both the Astra 2F and GSAT-10 telecommunications satellites into orbit, the launch services provider announced […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-01-12] The Chinese state-run Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center has sent a second satellite built for the Venezuelan government into orbit on a Long March rocket, China’s Xinhua News […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-01-12] The European Defense Agency (EDA) has awarded a three-year contract to Astrium to provide commercial Ku-, Ka- and C-band satellite communications capacity for the defense ministries of […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-01-12] The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration temporarily substituted the non-functional (NOAA) GOES-13 weather satellite with the backup GOES-14 satellite as engineers work to fix the satellite’s […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 09-28-12] Comtech easily surpassed analysts’ consensus forecasts for its 2012 fiscal fourth quarter, reporting quarterly revenues of approximately $113 million compared to the $109 million forecast, the […]

[Satellite News 09-28-12] New hosted payload activities, initiatives and milestones by the Hosted Payload Alliance and the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Command (SMC) center took center stage at […]

[Satellite TODAY 09-28-12] Independent global satellite communications provider NSSLGlobal has entered into a partnership with Iridium Communications to add Iridium Pilot terminals to NSSLGlobal’s product portfolio, the companies announced Sept. […]

[Satellite TODAY 09-28-12] Japanese regulatory authorities have approved Beam Communications’ entire range of Inmarsat-based products for sale in the country’s markets, Beam announced Sept. 28.    Japanese law requires all […]

[Satellite TODAY 09-28-12] U.K. satellite hardware manufacturer ViaLite Communications has unveiled a new product that allows simultaneous transmission of L-band traffic and a reference signal over a single fiber, the […]

[Satellite TODAY 09-28-12] TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) has received a combined $5.5 million in satellite systems delivery orders from the U.S. Army, the company announced Sept. 28.    The combined orders […]

    Global satellite data and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications company Orbcomm has set the date for the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch of its prototype second-generation (OG2) satellite, Orbcomm confirmed Sept. 26.  […]

   TeleCommunication Systems (TCS), Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin have entered into a partnership to produce low-cost satellite terminals for protected fixed communications and communications-on-the move, the companies confirmed Sept. 26. […]

    Cassidian and Astrium Services conducted a live demonstration in Brazil of an end-to-end surveillance communication solution, as well as features that can be added to a Tetrapol radio communication […]

[Satellite TODAY 09-26-12] Sierra Nevada Corp. (SNC) has successfully completed pre-ship review of its first prototype spacecraft of the Orbcomm generation 2 constellation at the company’s Space Systems headquarters in […]

    European satellite operator SES has produced solid financial performances recently, but with six satellites due to be launched over the next nine months, the company may struggle with […]

[Satellite TODAY 09-26-12] Semiconductor-based components and subsystems provider Emcore has been awarded a solar panel manufacturing contract by Orbital Sciences for NASA’s Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) mission […]

[Satellite TODAY 09-26-12] APT Satellite Holdings of Hong Kong has entered into a contract with Chinese space company CSCC to provide project management services for the Apstar 7B (ChinaSat 12) […]

[Satellite TODAY 09-26-12] Canadian space hardware subsystems provider Com Dev International has been awarded a contract valued in excess of $4 million to provide satellite equipment for an unnamed U.S. […]

[Satellite News 09-25-12] Uplogix identifies itself as an independent network management platform that is located with and directly connected to managed devices. The company designs its solutions to both work […]

[Satellite TODAY 09-25-12] The commercial industry will supply 68 percent more satellite capacity to government and military users over the next decade despite near term uncertainty driven by troop withdrawals […]

[Satellite TODAY 09-25-12] Eutelsat Communications has obtained all required regulatory approvals to acquire the GE-23 satellite, associated customer contracts and orbital rights from GE Capital, which completes the operator’s transaction, […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 09-25-12] Satellite broadband could play an important role in meeting African governments’ broadband targets, such as increasing broadband penetration to approximately 80 percent of Africans by 2020, […]

[Satellite TODAY 09-25-12] Lockheed Martin has delivered the propulsion core module for the first U.S. Air Force Global Positioning System 2 spacecraft to the company’s GPS Processing Facility (GPF) in […]

[Satellite TODAY 09-21-12] The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has unveiled a program to modernize approaches and descents to six Florida airports as part of its transition to a satellite-based […]