Author: Mark Holmes

[Satellite News 05-20-11] Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) has reached another important milestone having secured another $215 million in financing that will fund most of its capital expenditure plans in the...

[Satellite TODAY 05-20-11]  Tesacom has been granted licenses in the Republic of Panama to provide and sell Iridium voice and data communications in the country, Iridium announced May 19.     ...

[Satellite TODAY 05-19-11] Asia Broadcast Satellite has secured $215 million in new funding, the company announced May 18. It has closed a $215 million five-year senior bank loan from a...

[Satellite TODAY 05-19-11]  Orbcomm has completed a deal to acquire substantially all of the assets of StarTrak Systems from Alanco Technologies, the company announced May 18.             StarTrak is a...

[Satellite TODAY 05-19-11]  VT iDirect (iDirect) will offer new Web and UDP optimization solutions through a reseller agreement with XipLink, the two companies announced May 17.             The new optimization...

[Satellite TODAY 05-19-11] ViaSat has won a new contract worth $40 million from Thales Alenia Space, the company announced May 17. ViaSat will supply Ka-band transmit-receive (T/R) modules to Thales...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 05-19-11] Kratos Defense and Security Solutions (Kratos) has sealed a deal worth $266 million to acquire Integral Systems in a cash and stock transaction. Integral will be...

[Satellite News 05-19-11] The consequences of the U.S. Congress not providing adequate funding for the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) program could be “catastrophic” in the long-term. This is the...

[Satellite TODAY 05-17-11]  Cyfrowy Polsat has now close to 3.5 million DTH subscribers in Poland. This was one of the highlights of its first quarter results issued May 17.     ...

[Satellite TODAY 05-18-11]  RRSat Global Communications has appointed Shlomo Shamir as its new chairman, the company  announced May 16.       Shamir will replace Gilad Ramot, who will remain as a...