Jeffrey Hill

[Satellite TODAY 07-16-12] GMV has been selected to lead a satellite navigation project in collaboration with the South African National Space Agency (SANSA), the company announced July 13.    The […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-16-12] GeoEye has signed contract agreements two international partners in the Middle East and Asia for the renewal and expanded use of GeoEye imagery products, the company announced […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-16-12] Telefónica Digital has selected Apigee as its development partner for the API management platform, Telefónica announced July 13.    The companies said the partnership builds on work […]

[Satellite News 07-17-12] British satellite broadcaster BSkyB is launching its new Now TV over-the-top (OTT) Internet TV video service in the United Kingdom July 17, starting with a limited content […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-16-12] Comtech Telecommunications subsidiary Comtech EF Data has signed a $1.7 million equipment order from an unnamed Asian mobile network operator to provide modems, RF products and RAN […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 07-13-12] There may be as many as 300,000 stray objects in space between 1 centimeter and 10 centimeters in size, and 35 million objects smaller than 1 […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-13-12] SES has certified the first SAT-IP converter by Inverto Digital Labs, a Luxembourg-based developer and marketer of consumer and professional broadcast reception products, the operator announced July […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-13-12] Arinc and Lemko have successful demonstrated seamless 4G LTE data transmission and streaming video via Arinc’s RapydConnex mobile edge satellite broadband communications platform and Lemko’s distributed mobile […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-13-12] Satélites Mexicanos (Satmex) of Mexico has awarded Optimal Satcom a multi-year contract to provide its enterprise satellite capacity system to help Satmex manage its expanding satellite fleet, […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-13-12] ViaSat has been selected by Australia’s wholesale-only national broadband network NBN to provide the ground-based communications, network management and data processing systems for the long-term satellite service […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 07-12-12] Entropic Communications, a semiconductor solutions provider for the connected household market, has acquired specific direct broadcast satellite (DBS) intellectual property and corresponding technologies from PLX Technology, […]

[Satellite News 07-12-12] Virgin Galactic is developing its LauncherOne rocket to carry small satellites into orbit at a fraction of current estimated cost, the company’s founder Richard Branson confirmed July […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-12-12] Smart devices that link to the handset to carry out specific tasks will become a major new market for hardware manufacturers during the next five years, according […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-12-12] Raytheon submitted a proposal to the U.S. Air Force in June for the Family of Advanced Beyond Line of Sight Terminals (FAB-T) alternate program to provide secure, […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-12-12] Canadian information solutions firm MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has signed a contract valued at approximately $35 million with United Kingdom-based Avanti Communications to provide a Ka-band […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-12-12] ViaSat has won a contract to provide X-band antennas and its MD-1366 Enhanced Bandwidth Efficient Modem (EBEM) to Selex Elsag, which will use the offering to expand […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-11-12] British satellite operator Avanti Communications has signed an ordering agreement with NATO’s Communications and Information Agency (NCIA), formerly the NC3A Agency, to provide service from its Hylas […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 07-11-12] European satellite operator SES’ new SES-5 spacecraft, launched earlier this week on an ILS Proton Breeze M rocket, aims to serve as a valuable cornerstone in […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-11-12] Harris CapRock has signed a multi-year, multi-channel agreement with Astrium Services to offer end-to-end Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) Tactical Satellite solutions to international and U.S. government users, the […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-11-12] MSS operator Inmarsat will deploy its SwiftBroadband service as a satellite backbone for in-flight Internet services on two airlines in the Asia Pacific region, the company announced […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-11-12] Gilat Satellite Networks has been selected by Cable & Wireless Panama (C&W) to provide a SkyEdge 2 broadband network that will be used to deliver broadband Internet […]

Space Computer, a privately owned signal processing systems, software and algorithms developer founded in 1987, has been acquired by technology manufacturer ITT Exelis, in an effort to strengthen its presence […]

Com Dev has received a follow-on contract from Boeing Satellite Systems to supply filters, switches and ferrite components for use in NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) program, Com […]

Raytheon received a $19 million contract to modify the U.S. Navy’s Multiband Terminal (NMT) to link it with the Air Force’s Enhanced Polar Satellite (EPS), the company announced.    Raytheon […]

United Launch Alliance (ULA) has successfully placed another U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) satellite into orbit on a Delta 4-Heavy rocket, the company confirmed June 29.    The unmanned rocket […]

Hughes Network Systems has received Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 Security Level 1 validation for its Spaceway Crypto Kernel (HSCK) from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), […]

Boeing and the U.S. Navy have completed an in-flight demonstration of a satellite communications system on a Navy EA-18G Growler, the aerospace manufacturer announced.    The system aims to allow […]

ASC Signal has released new redundancy technology and product options designed to provide simplified, seamless switching of active radio frequency components on the company’s fixed and transportable Earth station antennas, […]

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions subsidiary RT Logic has launched its 250 MHz T400CS Wideband Channel Simulator that replicates the real-time RF conditions that can be expected in wideband satcom, […]

[Satellite News 07-10-12] L-3 Communications Holdings subsidiary L-3 Global Communications Solutions (GCS) has received a Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite systems contract from the Pentagon’s Special Operations Command that […]