Jeffrey Hill

[Satellite TODAY 12-29-11] Deutsche Telekom may bid for rights to broadcast the German Bundesliga soccer league via satellite, according to a Dec. 27 report in the Financial Times Deutschland.   […]

[Satellite News 12-28-11] Despite economic challenges and a series of next-generation offerings still in development, the satellite industry reaped remarkable financial benefits in 2011 thanks to smart acquisition moves and […]

[Satellite News 12-28-11] The past 12 months have seen a new impetus placed on the noteworthy acceleration in satellite technology. From Ka-band to hosted payloads, new offerings and breakthroughs have […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-28-11] Middle-East communications satellite operator Arabsat has transferred its telecommunications network services from the Arabsat-2B satellite to its new Arabsat-5C satellite, the company announced Dec. 27.    Arabsat-5C, […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-28-11] Six new Globalstar second-generation satellites have been integrated into a Soyuz rocket and rolled out to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in preparation for their scheduled launch on Dec. […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-28-11] OHB System affiliate LuxSpace has completed construction and testing of the LuxSpace VesselSat2 AIS satellite for Orbcomm, the M2M data communications company announced Dec. 27.    LuxSpace […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-28-11] The European Space Agency (ESA) has successful received the first triple-frequency signals from its Galileo in-orbit validation (IOV) spacecraft, ESA confirmed Dec. 27.    ESA said that […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 12-27-11] The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued its approval of a spectrum transfer between AT&T and Qualcomm, the commission confirmed Dec. 23.    Qualcomm’s $1.925 […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-27-11] International Launch Services (ILS) has informed operator SES that the launch of its SES-4 satellite will be postponed for approximately 25 days due to technical reasons with […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-27-11] LightSquared filed the first set of data from independent lab testing of precision GPS devices that were modified to coexist with the company’s proposed nationwide 4G LTE […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-27-11] Raytheon has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force to incorporate Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) capability into its suite of APX-119 Identification Friend […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-27-11] Liberty Global has appointed Bryan Hall its new senior vice president, general counsel and secretary effective Jan. 10, the company confirmed Dec. 23.    Hall will succeed […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 12-23-11] Satellite manufacturer Boeing has secured a $296 million contract option to produce the Wideband Global Satellite (WGS)-8, the eighth in a series of military communications satellites […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-13-11] GlobeCast and France 24 are planning to launch an exploratory Hbb-TV service in early 2012 with the support of French telecom Orange and satellite operator SES, the […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-23-11] TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) has won a second extension to its U.S. Army World-Wide Satellite Systems (WWSS) indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, TCS announced Dec. 21.    TCS will […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-23-11] China has successfully launched China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.’s (CASC) Ziyuan I-02C high-resolution remote-sensing satellite on a Long March 4B rocket from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-23-11] Spanish space systems company GMV has successfully tracked both the data and pilot channels of the Galileo PRN 11 satellite with its own line of GNSS receiver […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-23-11] Due to the holiday, there will be no Satellite TODAY Daily News Feed published on Monday, Dec. 26. We will resume our normal publishing schedule on Tuesday, […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 12-22-11] SES Government Solutions (SES-GS) has successfully completed initial on-orbit testing on the Commercially Hosted Infrared Payload (CHIRP) that launched on the SES-2 satellite in September, the […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-22-11] Comtech EF Data was awarded a $4.1 million contract to provide satellite communications equipment supporting mobile backhaul network expansion to an unnamed telecommunications operator in Latin America, […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-22-11] Numerex Corp. has unveiled a new satellite-based end-to-end remote asset monitoring solution that enables value-added resellers to provide secure, configurable asset visibility to customers seeking to monitor […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-22-11] Commercial-off-the-shelf blue force and blue personnel tracking (BFT/BPT) specialist Track24 Defense has integrated SkyWave’s IsatData Pro service to its SCC Titan solution to allow its clients to […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-22-11] LightSquared has filed a petition with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to confirm its right to use the spectrum licensed to the company by the federal […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 12-21-11] AT&T’s hand in terminating its $39 billion deal with Deutsche Telekom to acquire T-Mobile was forced by strong opposition from the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) and the […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-21-11] Gilat Satellite Networks has been awarded a new contract by the Colombian Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MINTIC) to provide broadband Internet connectivity to over 1,600 […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-21-11] Canadian essential information solutions provider MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates  (MDA) will provide additional advanced technology to support the communication satellite network of its partner O3b, the company […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-21-11] Raytheon has successfully tested its U.S. Navy Multiband Terminal (NMT) with the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite to provide secure communications for the U.S. military and international […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-21-11] Operator SES has rolled out an enhanced version of its satellite-based broadband service Astra2Connect to its end-users in Germany, the United Kingdom and Ireland. The service is […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-20-11] Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) will launch its new Panasonic Avionics-powered SASWiFi service by the end of the week after the first plane is equipped and in the air, […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-20-11] GlobeCast has commenced broadcast of Travel Channel HD on Measat-3 satellite to reach homes across the Asia Pacific region, operator Measat Satellite Systems confirmed Dec. 19.   […]