Jeffrey Hill

[Satellite TODAY 12-30-11] SpaceX has confirmed an updated Falcon 9 launch schedule for Orbcomm’s second-generation (OG2) satellites. The updated plans, announced Dec. 29, include launching the first OG2 prototype satellite […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-30-11] Pole Star, Absolute Software and Absolute Maritime Tracking Services have completed a three-company merge into a London-based entity providing a combination of monitoring and security related services, […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-30-11] Global Marine Networks (GMN) signed a distribution agreement with Vobal to make its voice-over-IP (VoIP) services available to maritime customers and incorporate Vobal technology as part of […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-30-11] Due to the holiday, there will be no Satellite TODAY Daily News Feed published on Monday, Jan. 2. We will resume our normal publishing schedule on Tuesday, […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 12-29-11] Orbcomm has reached a definitive agreement with hospitality technology and services company PAR Technology Corp. to acquire its subsidiary PAR Logistics Management Systems (PAR LMS) for […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-29-11] Hughes Network Systems has filed a letter of intent to seek access to the United States market from its Jupiter Ka-band satellite located at the 97.1 degrees […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-29-11] China’s Beidou global positioning system (GPS) network has started providing services to the country and the surrounding regions, Chinese Satellite Navigation System Office Director Ran Chengqi announced […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-29-11] Starmax HD announced Dec. 28 that it is closing down operations, but said the shut down is temporary and that the Spanish DTH platform would return to […]

[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 […]