Author: Veronica Magan

[Satellite TODAY 05-07-13] C-COM Satellite Systems has announced that its next generation iNetVu 1201 antenna system has received type approval from Eutelsat. The 1.2m drive-away system has met all the...

[Satellite TODAY 05-07-13] The U.S. Air Force has awarded ITT Exelis a $6.1 million contract to insert a modern data storage and memory technology into the Strategic Automated Command Control...

[Satellite TODAY 05-07-13] Cobham has announced its plans to introduce a new HD MPEG4 IP Encoder at Broadcast Asia 2013. Specifically engineered for broadcast application, the encoder is able to...

[Satellite TODAY 05-06-13] ViaSat has appointed Ken Peterman as general manager of its Government Systems segment, which has reported nearly $100 million in year-over-year revenue growth. Before joining ViaSat, Peterman...

[Satellite TODAY 05-06-13] Eutelsat Communications has signed a multi-year agreement with Rawafed Libya for Telecommunications & Technology, an Internet service provider in Libya, for capacity on the Ka-Sat satellite to...

NASA’s first PhoneSats successfully beamed their first images from space. The satellites, launched on April 21 on board an Orbital Science’s Antares rocket, were all built around a standard cubesat frame about four inches square and use smartphones to snap pictures of the Earth and act as the spacecrafts’ avionics for maintaining attitude control.

This week the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is scheduled to consider a proposal by Qualcomm, which suggests the use of the 14.0-14.5GHz spectrum band (already used by satellites) to beam Internet signals up to airplanes from 150 ground stations.

[Satellite TODAY 05-06-13] Yahsat has selected Astrium Services Government to offer Yahsat’s Military Ka-band service to the U.S. government. The service will allow any U.S. government or Department of Defense...

[Satellite TODAY 05-06-13] iDirect Government Technologies (iGT) has launched a new Airborne In-Flight Monitoring System (AIMS) for secure connectivity and monitoring satcom functions while in flight. The solution provides situational...

[Satellite TODAY 05-03-13] The SES-6 satellite, designed and manufactured by Astrium for SES, has begun its journey to space. The spacecraft left the Astrium’s facility in Toulouse, France, after completion of...