Author: Staff Writer

Globecomm Deployed in Baghdad

Globecomm Systems [Nasdaq: GCOM], a Hauppauge, N.Y.-based provider of satellite-based communications, announced last week that it has been working with an unidentified customer in an effort to restore telecommunication services...

Netsystem Adds Astra Transponder

Italy’s Netsystem has signed a long-term agreement to use a second transponder on SES Astra’s satellite at 19.2 degrees East Longitude to provide satellite-based Internet service throughout Italy. This follows...

Boeing-SAIC Selects Partners

Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Science Applications International Corp. has selected 15 partners to join the U.S. Army future combat systems (FCS) program. The 15 new partners will lead teams of...

SnapTrack Partners with Motorola In China

SnapTrack, a subsidiary of Qualcomm [Nasdaq: QCOM], and Motorola [NYSE: MOT] have agreed to provide CDMA carrier China Unicom [NYSE: CHU] with SnapTrack’s assisted GPS location server platforms. SnapTrack’s position...

Anaren Plans To Dispose Of European Operation

Anaren [Nasdaq: ANEN], a Syracuse, N.Y.-based maker of integrated microwave components for satellite and wireless communications, Friday said it plans to dispose of its Anaren Europe operation. “This action is...

EMS To Keep Satellite Unit

Atlanta-based EMS Technologies [Nasdaq: ELMG] announced Friday that it plans to keep its startup satellite networks business when it sells off its Montreal-based commercial space division later this year. The...

ESA Awards Two Galileo Contracts Worth $113M

The contracts for the first two Galileo satellites were signed on Friday at the European Space Agency‘s research and technology center in Noordwijk, Holland. The contracts are for experimental satellites,...