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[Satellite TODAY 05-03-13] MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) reported consolidated revenues of $428.6 million for the first quarter of 2013, an important increase compared to the $172 million the company […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-02-13] Viasat Broadcasting has appointed Aleks Habdank as chief operating officer of its Pay-TV Emerging Markets operations, effective May 7, 2013. Habdank will be based in London and […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-02-13] Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has appointed Toru Yunoki as business development manager for its telecommunications products. In his new role, Yunoki is responsible for promoting SSTL’s […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-02-13] NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has selected ITT Exelist to provide specialized antennas for the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere & Climate-2 (COSMIC-2) program. Under the […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-02-13] The U.S. White House has honored Steve Birnbaum, the Global VSAT Forum (GVF) chairman of Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response (HA/DR) Programs, as “Champion of Change” for […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-02-13] Telesat Holdings has reported consolidated revenues of CA$219 million for the first quarter of 2013, an increase of approximately 12 percent or CA$23 million compared to the […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-01-13] Aireon LLC, developer of the first satellite-based global air traffic surveillance system, has announced a long-term commercial data services contract with NAV CANADA. Aireon will use the […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-01-13] Sirius XM Radio has announced the appointment of James E. Meyer as chief executive officer, effective immediately. Meyer has served as the interim CEO since December. He […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-01-13] Modern Times Group MTG has announced that Viasat Broadcasting, which comprises MTG’s television broadcasting operations, will make its Viasat Premium HD package available to Mobile TeleSystems OJSC […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-01-13] Advantech Wireless has announced the release of its new Direct to Home (DTH) solution: the new Sapphire Series 600W Ku-Band UltraLinearTM GaN SSPA/BUC.       Featuring high […]

Belarus and Azerbaijan are working on signing a cooperation agreement under which Azerbaijan will be allowed to use information and images collected by BelKA-2, a Belarusian satellite launched in July 2012.

The U.S. Military’s decision to sign a $10 million, one-year deal lease with a Chinese firm to use the Apstar-7 satellite, built by Thales Alenia Space, to provide communications for its Africa Command has stirred up opinions from critics.

The U.S. Military’s decision to sign a $10 million, one-year deal lease with a Chinese firm to use the Apstar-7 satellite, built by Thales Alenia Space, to provide communications for its Africa Command has stirred up opinions from critics.

Gilat Satellite Networks and France-based NordNet, a subsidiary of France Telecom, have announced the commercial deployment of Gilat's Ka-band VSATs in support of SES Broadband Services' (SBBS) Ka-band consumer service rollout.

[Satellite TODAY 04-30-13] Newtec has Mario Querner as the company’s new VP Asia. Prior to joining Newtec, Mario Querner worked as Head for South-East Asia at ECI Telecom, based in […]

RigNet, a provider of managed remote communications solutions to the oil and gas industry, has successfully installed an iDirect Series 15100 Universal Satellite Hub in Adelaide, Australia, to extend its services to the country and the Asia Pacific region.

[Satellite TODAY 04-30-13] Blue Sky Network, a supplier of satellite tracking and communication solutions for aviation, land and maritime, has announced that its HawkEye 5300 received Homologation Certification from Brazil’s […]

A new report from the U.S. General Accountability Office (GAO) has highlighted how the Department of Defense’s (DOD) satellite control networks are fragmented and potentially duplicative.

Iraq has accused 10 satellite channels, including Al Jazeera, of airing "misleading and exaggerated" coverage of recent fighting and "promoting violence."

[Satellite TODAY 04-29-13] OSN, a pay-TV network in the Middle East and North Africa, has partnered with ABS-CBN, one of the largest Filipino TV networks in the world, to bring […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-29-13] Astrium has announced it plans to launch Vietnam’s first Earth Observation Satellite on May 3. VNREDSat-1 will lift off from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou aboard […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-29-13] GVF has announced a new event to discuss and analyze the new quantitative and qualitative communications paradigm that High Throughput Satellites (HTS) bring to the industry. The […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-29-13] Eutelsat Communications has announced it will train 700 British satellite broadband installers to deliver the company’s Tooway service to residents and businesses in areas poorly served or […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-26-13] Broadcom and STMicro tied in unit shipments for the worldwide set-top box IC market in 2012, with both companies delivering between 85 and 86 million video SoCs […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-26-13] Raytheon and Student Veterans of America (SVA) have partnered to launch a new $30,000 scholarship program for student veterans pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree in science, […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-26-13] MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has signed CA$3.2 million worth of contracts with the Government of Canada’s Department of National Defense (DND) to provide operations for the […]

Glonass-M satellite. Image credit: Reshetnev [Satellite TODAY 04-26-13] Arianespace has announced the successful 1804th launch of the Soyuz vehicle. Liftoff took place on Friday, April 26 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome […]

MultiClet’s chip. [Satellite TODAY 04-26-13] SPUTNIX and MultiClet have signed an agreement to jointly develop and apply highly performant fault tolerant low power consuming processors designed on the basis of multicellular […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-24-13] EUMETSAT announced the Metop-B has successfully replaced Metop-A as its prime operational polar-orbiting satellite following the end of its commissioning period. Metop-A will continue operations as long […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-25-13] SES has announced that 22 percent of all TV households (or 3.7 million homes) in Ukraine in 2012 receive TV directly from satellites. The numbers are a […]