Veronica Magan

A team of scientists from Boston University is attempting to introduce the “plug and play” interface – ubiquitous in personal computing – to the satellite design arena.

China has announced it will launch the first satellite of its high-resolution Earth observation system in April.

FURUNO ELECTRIC has announced the launch date for its new multi-GNSS receiver chips eRideOPUS 6 and eRideOPUS 7. The receiver chips will be available to the market from August 2013 onward.

Arianespace has announced the 1801st flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle was performed successfully from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), a global communications and information company, has signed a contract with the Canadian Space Agency valued at CA$81 million (excluding GST/PST) to provide sustaining engineering and operational support for its robotic elements on the International Space Station (ISS) through December 2015.

Intelsat has signed a multi-year deal with Digital Networks, provider of business-class satellite solutions to the energy sector. Under the agreement, Digital Networks will improve its support very small aperture terminal (VSAT) communications networks in North America using Intelsat’s capacity via its satellite fleet and IntelsatOne terrestrial network.

The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center has selected Space Systems Loral (SSL) to study the feasibility of accommodating next-generation U.S. military weather systems on commercial polar orbiting satellites.

Intelsat has signed a contract with International Launch Services (ILS) for two future satellite launches on board ILS’s Proton vehicle.

Cobham has announced the introduction of MediaMesh, a new IP-based platform for lightweight, rapid set-up field newsrooms. The announcement was made to the American market at the National Association of Broadcasters Show NAB 2013.

GlobeCast and Eutelsat Communications have signed a multi-year agreement with Dutch broadcasting network NOS.

Hughes Network Systems and Inmarsat have announced their Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) machine-to-machine (M2M) terminal has successfully completed testing by Met Laboratories (MetLabs), an OSHA Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratory.

The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) have signed an agreement on the RadioAstron satellite, which was launched by Roscosmos on July 2011.

ORBCOMM has signed an agreement with Kobelco Construction Machinery (KCM), Japan’s second largest manufacturer of hydraulic excavators, to deliver a global telematics application.

 BURLINGTON, Iowa, March 26, 2013 — Winegard Company, a leader and pioneer in the design and manufacture of Antenna reception products, announced today that its FlatWave indoor TV antenna and […]

GlobeCast Asia has selected Ideal Systems Singapore to design and build a new state-of-the-art multichannel broadcast facility in Singapore's emerging media city Mediapolis@one-north. The new GlobeCast facility will be located at a Infinite Studios building, which is a 10-story purpose-built structure with more than 24,000 square meters.

Hughes Network Systems and Maju Nusa Sdn Bhd (Majunusa), a Malaysian VSAT service provider, have signed an agreement to supply an HX System 4.0 NOC (Network Operations Center) and 130 HX broadband satellite terminals. Majunusa will use the system to deliver cellular backhaul services for 2G and 3G sites in rural areas without access to cost-effective terrestrial communications.

During its first participation at the CABSAT 2013 conference, My-HD Media, a Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region television platform that offers a single viewing card solution for High Definition (HD) channels, announced a long-term strategic partnership with Arabsat.

Satcom Direct, a developer of satellite communications solutions for corporate and military aircraft, has selected WAN optimization and network control solutions provider Exinda’s Mobile platform to be integrated into its first hardware product, the Satcom Direct Router (SDR).

NASA has agreed to launch a satellite designed and built by a group of students from the University at Buffalo. The shoebox-sized Glint Analyzing Data Observation Satellite (GLADOS) took the team two years to complete and is designed to track the size and orbit of debris circling our planet.

Georgian media company JSC Global Contact Consulting has signed a multi-year lease with Eutelsat Communications for capacity on the Eutelsat 36B satellite.

PlanetIQ has urged Congress to exercise its oversight of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and address the systemic failures

Georgian media company JSC Global Contact Consulting has signed a multi-year lease with Eutelsat Communications for capacity on the Eutelsat 36B satellite.

The All Nations University College in Koforidua, Ghana, has announced its plans to launch its first satellite. “CANSAT,” built by the Intelligent Space System Laboratory of the university, is expected to sensitize prospective students who wish to pursue a career in the Space Science and Satellite Technology program the university started offering last year.

A new app from Southern Stars for Apple devices allows users to access a complete database of spacecraft orbiting Earth.

The EDGE Innovation Network has announced the opening of its new EDGE Space Innovation Center. This marks the 13th and newest center, housed within the General Dynamics' Seabrook, Md., facility; less than two miles from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

The Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) has completed initial checkout and snapped the mission's first multispectral images. The spacecraft was launched on Feb. 11.

[Satellite TODAY 03-15-13] ViviSat has announced the opening of the ATK Robotic Rendezvous and Proximity (RPO) testing facility to ViviSat clients at the headquarters of ATK’s Space Systems Division in […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-15-13] Swiss Space Systems has announced its plans to provide low-cost satellite launches at a quarter of the current market rates. The company said it targets to charge […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-15-13] YahLive, the HD television satellite platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, was presented with the Satellite Services Provider of the Year award at […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-14-13] Inmarsat has announced the appointment of Bill Peltola as senior director for Aviation Services in the Asia-Pacific region. He will be responsible for developing market opportunities for […]