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Executive Moves News
SES Appoints Karim Michel Sabbagh as New CEO and President SES announced that the company’s President and CEO Romain Bausch plans to step down from his position at the next […]
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North America News
MDA Signs Space-Based Surveillance Deal With Canada’s Department of National Defense MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), a global communications and information company has signed a CA$10.8 million ($10.4 million) contract […]
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Europe News
Arianespace Successfully launches ESA’s Fourth ATV Thales Alenia Space has announced the successful liftoff of the European Space Agency’s fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), named after famous scientist Albert Einstein. […]
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Connectivity
Do Stock Options Still Attract the Satellite Industry?
With the stock market reaching new heights, stock options are again in vogue, and may offer a way for satellite and space sector companies to attract and keep valuable employees. […]
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Connectivity
Google’s Project Loon Hovers Over the Satellite Industry
Every so often, someone points out that a satellite is just a very tall antenna tower – without the tower part. When looked at this way, it is obvious that […]
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Connectivity
FCC Proposes Ku-Band for Mobile Air-to-Ground Services
In an effort to increase broadband access on aircraft, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is proposing to use Ku-band, on a secondary basis, for terrestrial-based air-to-ground mobile services. According […]
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Connectivity
Access Media 3 Earns Top 5 Spot on Crain’s “Fast Fifty” List of Chicago’s Fastest Growing Companies
Access Media 3 (AM3), a leading media service provider to multi-family properties, was recently named to Crain’s Chicago Business’ “Fast 50,” a list of Chicago’s fastest growing companies
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Connectivity
Google to Provide Wi-Fi Internet to Starbucks
Thanks to a new partnership with Google, Starbucks customers will have access to faster Wi-Fi speeds.
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Finance
International Community Questions Turkey’s Satellite Launch Center
Turkey has approved construction of its first satellite-launching center to accommodate country’s growing satellite programs.
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Government/Military
INEC to Use Satellite Technology in Nigeria’s Electoral Review
Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will use satellite technology in its mission to review the country’s electoral boundaries and constituencies.
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Indian Intelligence Agencies Warn Against Foreign Satellite Use in CCTNS Project
Following a warning from intelligence agencies that using a foreign satellite in the proposed nationwide Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS) could make critical databases vulnerable to eavesdropping by other countries, India’s Union Home Ministry has decided to take the help of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to make the project fully home-grown.
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Uncategorized
NASA’s IRIS Shares First Images
On July 17, 2013, as NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) orbited around Earth, the door of its telescope opened to view the lowest layers of the sun's atmosphere.
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Government/Military
Vietnam to Launch Pico Dragon Micro Satellite
The Vietnam National Satellite Centre (VNSC) has confirmed that its micro satellite, Pico Dragon, will be shipped to the International Space Station (ISS) in early August.
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Government/Military
NASA, ISRO to Team Up for Satellite Development
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) are in talks for building a satellite together.
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Government/Military
University of Calgary Leads in ESA Triple-Satellite Mission
Space scientists at the University of Calgary have a principal role in the European Space Agency (ESA) Swarm mission, a triple-satellite mission created to better understand Earth’s magnetic field, including the weakening of our planet’s protective “shield” against cosmic radiation
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Government/Military
Budget cuts Endanger the Private Space Industry in America
Boeing, SpaceX and Sierra Nevada Corporation are in competition to build the replacement Space Shuttle to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).
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Connectivity
Premier League Investigates Illegal Use of Satellites
ID Inquiries has been appointed by the Premier League, the English professional football league, to carry out investigations into the unauthorized and illegal use of foreign satellite systems and web streams in the United Kingdom.
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Connectivity
Satellite Aids Shipwreck Investigation
A 200-year-old shipwreck has been discovered off the coast of Texas, where archeologists have launched a high-tech salvage operation
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Connectivity
App Shares Satellite Images With Users
SatCam hopes to take user-submitted data to improve weather research and forecasting, while giving users an added bonus.
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Government/Military
Uganda’s Home-Grown Space Program Takes Off
Armed with only a team of student volunteers and a workspace in his mother’s backyard, 28-year-old Chris Nsamba has set out to build and launch Uganda’s first space observer.
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Government/Military
South American Satellite Joins Earth Observation Effort
Brazil and Argentina have joined an international effort to provide data and to help prevent an ocean color data gap, which occurred after the Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) mission failed in 1986.
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Video
Tip Osterthaler, SES Government Solutions
Tip Osterthaler, President & CEO, SES Government Solutions, speaks to Jeffrey Hill, Associate Editor, SatelliteTODAY.com, and answers the question: “Which segment of the satellite industry should be most concerned about […]
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Video
Sergey Tsekhmistrov, RSCC
Sergey Tsekhmistrov, Deputy Director of TV and Internationl Sales Department at RSCC, speaks to Mark Holmes, Editor, Via Satellite and SatelliteTODAY.com, from the show floor at SATELLITE 2013.
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Video
Toni Lee Rudnicki, iDirect
Toni Lee Rudnicki, Chief Marketing Officer of iDirect, speaks with Mark Holmes, Editor, Via Satellite and SatelliteTODAY.com, about the release of its new X7 remote, as well as its upcoming […]
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Video
Steve Collar, O3b networks
Steve Collar, CEO of O3b Networks, speaks with Mark Holmes, Editor, Via Satellite and SatelliteTODAY.com, about the upcoming year’s milestones for the company projects as it prepares for the launch […]
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Video
Highlights from SATELLITE 2013 – by Scott Chase
Scott Chase, Chairman of SATELLITE 2013, presents highlights from the SATELLITE 2013 that took place in Washington, DC. in March, 2013.
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Video
Ali Ahmed Al-Kuwari, Es’hailSat
Jeffrey Hill interviews Ali Ahmed Al-Kuwari, CEO of Es’hailSat, from the show floor at SATELLITE 2013.




