Author: JJ McCoy

Air Logistics, a U.S. helicopter fleet serving the offshore oil industry, is equipping 125 aircraft with Iridium-based satellite systems for voice communications and automatic flight following, Iridium Satellite announced June...

Stephen Tapp, president and chief operating officer of XM Canada will leave the company effective June 15 to pursue other opportunities, Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. announced on June 7....

Atlanta-based Crawford Communications Inc. has acquired the assets of StarLink Inc., a satellite uplink truck company based near Chattanooga, Tenn. The acquisition adds a C-band, Ku-band and C/Ku-band hybrid to...

The Kudelski Group, which supplies middleware and conditional access solutions to direct-to-home operators worldwide, has settled a patent dispute with Assa Abloy Identification Technologies. Kudelski’s subsidiary, NagraID, settled the dispute...

DigitalGlobe, a content provider of the world’s highest-resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products, announced June 5 the promotion of three vice presidents: Dawn Sienicki to government relations; Mike...

Developed by Thales Alenia Space Italia for the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Ministry of Defense, a COSMO-SkyMed spacecraft was awaiting a June 7 launch aboard a Delta 2...

Thuraya plans to re-launch its mobile satellite services in a bid to gain customers while promising significant discounts to existing subscribers, the operator announced June 5. Branded ThurayaECO, the new...

DirecTV-10 has been delivered to a space center in Kazakhstan in preparation for a launch scheduled for early July, the RIA Novosti newspaper quoted a Russian space company on June...

SkyWave Mobile Communications, a supplier of D+ communications products and services, announced June 6 that it had obtained the mandatory CE marking for its SureLinx 8100 D+/GPRS integrated wireless controller....

Boeing Co. has demonstrated that its Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) can provide warfighters with rapid access to integrated voice, data and video services, the company announced June 6. Dubbed...