Author: JJ McCoy

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...

Boeing Co. has completed end-to-end testing of the Wideband Global SatCom (WGS) payload command and control system in preparation for the launch of the first WGS satellite this summer, Boeing...

Globecomm Systems Inc. has been awarded a $20.7 million contract from General Communication Inc., Globecomm announced June 5. General Communication provides voice, video and data communication services to residential, commercial...

Microspace Communications (Microspace) has entered into a strategic partnership with Vista Satellite Communications Inc. to offer alternative uplinking services to Vista’s customer base, Microspace announced June 5.  

The U.S. Navy awarded ViaSat an undefinitized, firm-fixed-price delivery order for multifunctional information distribution system-joint tactical radio system (MIDS-JTRS) production transition terminals (PTTs), the U.S. Department of Defense announced June...

Northrop Grumman Space and Mission Systems Corp. and General Dynamics C4 Systems have both been awarded multi-million, firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modifications, the U.S. Department of Defense announced June 4....