Jeffrey Hill

[Satellite TODAY 11-01-11] MBC Group signed a multi-year contract to lease Eutelsat capacity on the operator’s recently launched Atlantic Bird 7 satellite, the companies confirmed Oct. 31.    The terms […]

[Satellite News 11-01-11] Nigerian Communication Satellite Ltd. (NigComSat) is hoping that lightning won’t strike twice as China Great Wall Industry Corp. (CGWIC) gets set to launch its NigComSat 1R satellite […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 10-31-11] United Launch Alliance (ULA) has successfully launched NASA and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite on a Delta 2 […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-31-11] Intelsat signed capacity agreements with Turner Broadcasting for transponder space on two Intelsat satellites, the operator announced Oct. 27.    Turner extended its long-term commitment on Intelsat […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-31-11] Hackers interfered with two U.S. satellites on four separate occasions between 2007 and 2008, according to prepared documents for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.             […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-31-11] Com Dev has been awarded contracts by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to develop concept studies in areas related to future space science and exploration ventures, the […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-31-11]Managed mobile TV and video services provider MobiTV has introduced its TV Everywhere solution for cable, satellite and IPTV service providers, the company confirmed Oct. 28.    MobiTV […]

[Satellite News 10-31-11] The new month will provide two very different scenarios for two leading U.S. satellite broadcasters. Satellite radio provider Sirius XM is set to release its highly anticipated […]

[Satellite News 10-28-11] Canada could be the United States’ latest Wideband Global Satellite (WGS) ally as the nation’s government revealed plans Oct. 28 to spend as much as $477 million […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 10-28-11] Raytheon Co. reported strong 2011 third quarter bookings of $6.88 billion compared with $6.03 billion in the third quarter 2010 and saw healthy increases in its […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-28-11] Machine-to-machine (M2M) service provider Numerex saw its M2M subscription base grow 22 percent in the 2011 third quarter compared with the same period last year, which led […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-28-11] Wholesale 4G LTE operator LightSquared has entered into a collaborative partnership with antenna solutions provider PCTEL to develop technology in order to resolve concerns regarding LightSquared’s network […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-28-11] Danish software developer GateHouse has combined Inmarsat’s BGAN satellite communications capability with software-defined radio (SDR) technology to rollout an SDR implementation of a BGAN terminal, Inmarsat announced […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-28-11] The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a five-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract to Stratos to provide connectivity solutions to Coast Guard cutter vessels, Stratos’ government division […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 10-27-11] The Ball Aerospace-built National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) has been placed inside the fairing nose cone of a United Launch Alliance […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-27-11] Intelsat has partnered with integrated telecommunications service provider Du in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to jointly offer turnkey multi-channel per carrier (MCPC) television program distribution solutions […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-27-11] Earth imagery solutions provider DigitalGlobe has been contracted by NTT GeoSpace to provide imagery and support for NTT’s new online geospatial intelligence service GeoSpace CDS, DigitalGlobe announced […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-27-11] Lockheed Martin will begin integrating GeoEye’s next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite GeoEye-2 with the planned delivery of its integrated propulsion system to Lockheed Martin’s Sunnyvale, Calif. facilities later […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-27-11] German satellite equipment manufacturer Work Microwave’s joint venture with satellite navigation technology developer IFEN has unveiled a new model for its NavX global navigation satellite system (GNSS) […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 10-26-11] Ofcom, the independent regulator and competition authority for British communications industries, has filed a request with the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to rescind its 2GHz spectrum […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-26-11] Eutelsat has activated commercial service on its Atlantic Bird 7 satellite at the 7 degrees West orbital position, the operator announced Oct. 24.    Sea Launch carried […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-26-11] Hughes Network System was contracted by GTech to provide an advanced HN satellite networking solution to support lottery operations in Bogota, Colombia, Hughes announced Oct. 25.   […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-26-11] Gilat Satellite Networks’ wholly owned subsidiary Spacenet was selected by Cumberland Farms to upgrade and manage its communications infrastructure for more than 600 stores across 11 U.S. […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-26-11] Non-profit satellite organization Global VSAT Forum (GVF) has re-elected iDirect CTO and Senior Vice President of Engineering David Bettinger to its board of directors for a second […]

[Satellite News 10-26-11] SpaceX CEO Elon Musk testified before the U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee on the progress of its $75 million NASA Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 10-25-11] Geospatial information service provider GeoEye has received two contract awards from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and Boeing, GeoEye announced Oct. 24.    The first […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-25-11] FSS operator SES’ new Astra 1N satellite has entered commercial service at the orbital position of 28.2 degrees East, the company confirmed Oct. 24.    The satellite […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-25-11] Satellite manufacturer Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) shipped theAsiaSat 7 communications satellite it designed and built for Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited (AsiaSat) one month ahead of schedule, SS/L […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-25-11] Iridium Communications’ complete suite of Iridium AxcessPoint products and services is now available to customers in commercial markets, the MSS operator announced Oct. 24.    The suite […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-25-11] Connectivity solutions provider Orbit Communication Systems is set to unveil its expanded tracking and telemetry portfolio of aeronautical antennas, the company announced Oct. 24.               The new […]