Author: Staff Writer

Outerlink, a subsidiary of Digital Angel Corp., won contract from the South Carolina Army National Guard to deliver its satellite based Automatic Flight Following System (AFFS). Under the $3.2 million...

Teracom selected Wegener Corp. to provide technology to support digital signage solutions in Sweden, Wegener announced June 7. Teracom currently uses Wegener’s Ipump Media Servers and Compel Network Control to...

Eutelsat Communications signed a facilities agreement for a 1.9 billion euro ($2.4 billion) loan at part of the company’s debt refinancing plans, Eutelsat announced June 8. The proceeds of the...

End II End Communications named Michael Penny director of business continuity and disaster recovery, the company announced June 7. Penny’s position will include responsibility for product management and business development...

The National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) is sponsoring a program in conjunction with Wildblue to provide training, sales and marketing experience as well as a paid internship to college students...

C-Com Satellite Systems Inc. and Unasat Communications LLC agreed to a partnership under which the companies will integrate and market C-Com’s Inetvu Mobile satellite-based antenna system with the Unasat-deployed Surfbeam...

The Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology signed a one-year agreement with Imageone, a Japanese satellite imaging company, to train an Imageone engineer on ecological remote sensing and analysis techniques....

Canada’s Telesat won a contract from the Canadian Coast Guard to provide ship-to-shore communications via satellite. Telesat will provide satellite equipment to selected Coast Guard vessels, including a satellite terminal...

Sea Launch named Robert Peckham the company’s president and general manager effective June 5. He has served in the roles on an interim basis since March. Peckham has worked for...

Frank Lanza, chairman and CEO of L-3 Communications, died June 6, the company announced. Lanza was recovering from an April surgical procedure, but doctors had said his recovery was proceeding...