Jeffrey Hill

[Satellite TODAY Insider 02-20-12] Switzerland confirmed its plans to spend approximately $10.8 million for the design and development of a new line of satellites that would clean up orbital debris […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-20-12] Eutelsat’s W3C, Atlantic Bird 7 and Ka-Sat satellites have helped the operator increase its 2012 half-year backlog by 9.6 percent — a record for the Paris-based satellite […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-20-12] Rising television programming costs and thriftier U.S. consumers will not prevent satellite pay-TV operator DirecTV from meeting its growth targets for 2012 and 2013, CEO Mike White […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-20-12] Satellite solutions provider Global Satellite USA has launched Iridium’s second-generation maritime broadband platform Iridium Pilot for its customers, the companies announced Feb. 17.    The recently introduced […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-20-12] The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has suspended Landsat 5 Earth-imaging operations for an additional 90 days while its Flight Operations Team (FOT) continues to investigate other options […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-17-12] Via Satellite magazine has named Iridium CEO Matt Desch its Satellite Executive of the Year for 2011.    Iridium boasted a strong performance in 2011 that exceeded […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 02-17-12] Media Networks Latin America (MNLA) has signed a long-term contract with operator SES to secure capacity for its Telefonica Digital unit in Central America and the […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-17-12] The SES-4 satellite successfully performed post-launch maneuvers and deployed its solar arrays yesterday following its launch on Tuesday aboard an International Launch Services (ILS) Proton Breeze M […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-17-12] A U.S. bankruptcy court has confirmed and approved TerreStar’s reorganization plan to emerge from bankruptcy following its acquisition by Dish Network and its parent company Echostar, the […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-17-12] Technology developer SED Systems has introduced the third generation of its Decimator family of spectrum analyzer products, the company announced Feb. 16.    The Decimator D3 aims […]

[Satellite News 02-17-12] European operator SES entered 2011 knowing it would be a year of operational transition, according to SES President and CEO Romain Bausch, with incremental transponder capacity being […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 02-15-12] Gilat Satellite Networks took a considerable leap forward with its long-term Ka-band strategy by winning a contract with O3b Networks to develop and supply Ka-band infrastructure […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-15-12] Telesat has launched rural broadband services on the ViaSat-1 Ka-band satellite for customer Xplornet in Canada, the operator announced Feb. 14.    ViaSat-1, manufactured by Space Systems/Loral […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-15-12] Unclassified U.S. military space program and activity funding is set to decline 22 percent year-over-year to $8 billion under the U.S. Department of Defense’s 2013 spending request, […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-15-12] Satellite communications infrastructure, solutions, and teleport services provider UltiSat has been awarded a U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) contract under its Custom Satcom Solutions/Small Business (CS2-SB) program, […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-15-12] The ATIS Cloud Services Forum (CSF) has unveiled new standards for multicast-based content distribution that provides a description of multicast as a means for distributing content across […]

Raytheon is tripling its available satellite capacity for all AN/ARC-231 airborne radio terminals at no cost to the end-user, the company announced Feb. 9. The enhancement is being provided by an […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-14-12] SingTel profits dropped 9.6 percent in its fiscal 2012 third quarter compared with the same period in 2011, despite a 4.4 percent increase in profits generated by […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-14-12] SkyTrac Systems has been selected by EuroAvionics to provide a programmed Iridium 9523 modem that can be embedded in the EuroNav 7 situational awareness system, the company […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-14-12] SkyTrac Systems has been selected by EuroAvionics to provide a programmed Iridium 9523 modem that can be embedded in the EuroNav 7 situational awareness system, the company […]

[Satellite News 02-13-12] KVH Industries is riding a considerable wave of growth in the mini-VSAT broadband market, which CEO Martin Kits van Heyningen attributed to a 94 percent increase in […]

Elbit Systems expanded its payload portfolio by launching its Hermes 450 and Hermes 900 unmanned air system (UAS) hyper-spectral payload with new intelligence capabilities, the company confirmed Feb. 6.     […]

The Pentagon’s plan to reduce military spending by $487 billion over the next decade was met with serious concern in the space sector after it was published Jan. 27 as […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 02-14-12] Arianespace has successfully launched the European Space Agency’s (ESA) first Vega rocket, which placed two scientific research satellites and seven picosatellites into orbit, ESA and Arianespace […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-14-12] International Datacasting Corp. (IDC) has appointed James Hall, an independent director of the company, as its new chairman of the board effective immediately, IDC confirmed Feb. 13. […]

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is set award about $36 million in contracts to companies interested in building system components for its Phoenix program, which aims to retrofit […]

The delay of the U.S. Navy’s Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite program, originally planned kick off its first satellite in late 2009, should come as no surprise to the […]

The Hosted Payload Alliance, a non-profit satellite industry association established to serve as a bridge between government and private industry, gained significant support in Europe by adding French commercial launch […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-14-12] DirecTV satellite TV provider subsidiary Sky Brazil is set to launch an over-the-top (OTT) Internet TV service called Sky Online, the company announced Feb. 13.    The […]

U.K. operator Avanti Communications has raised 75 million British pounds ($118.6 million) through a partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) to fully finance its upcoming Hylas 3 program, Avanti […]