Author: Staff Writer

[Satellite TODAY 09-04-09] Orbcomm and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) have reached an agreement for SpaceX to launch 18 Orbcomm Generation 2 (OG2) satellites to begin as early as the...

[Satellite TODAY 09-04-09] The Indonesian Palapa-D communications satellite has been placed into a geostationary transfer orbit and will start a nominal launch early operation phase, manufacturer Thales Alenia Space announced...

[Satellite TODAY 09-04-09] Nagravision has won a new conditional access (CA) deal in Spain, securing the TDT Premium pay-TV digital terrestrial television (DTT) horizontal platform operated by Spanish audiovisual network...

[Satellite TODAY 09-04-09] ABI Research expects location based services (LBS) revenues to grow 156 percent from $1.7 billion in 2008 to $2.6 billion in 2009, according to a Sept. 3...

[Satellite TODAY 09-04-09] SES Astra signed a deal with Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. (TPSA) to bring its Astra2Connect satellite broadband service to Poland, SES Astra announced Sept. 3.      TPSA, majority-owned...

[Satellite TODAY 09-04-09] Commercial data and satellite-based Earth observation sales will top $1 billion in 2009, with figures nearly quadrupling by 2018, according to a Euroconsult study released Sept. 3....

[Satellite TODAY 09-03-09] Conditional access and middleware solutions provider NDS is joining forces with Access Systems Europe Holdings to allow customers to access pay-TV and free-to-air (FTA) channels on connected...

[Satellite TODAY 09-03-09] Viaccess has won a contract to provide a conditional access system to On.Net, a Macedonian ISP, Viaccess announced Sept. 1.     On.Net will deploy the Viaccess platform...

[Satellite TODAY 09-03-09] Industry Canada has issued a call-for-applications for the “Broadband Canada: Connecting Rural Canadians” initiative launched by the government July 30, Industry Canada announced Sept. 2.     The...

[Satellite TODAY 09-03-09] Tandberg Television is set to reveal the industry’s first MPEG-4 AVC HD 4:2:2 system solution for the contribution and distribution market, the company announced Sept. 2.    ...