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[Satellite TODAY 08-05-10] MTN Satellite Communications (MTN) has been awarded a five-year contract extension with Crystal Cruises to provide its VSAT satellite communication services, the company announced Aug. 4.      […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-05-10] Remote workforce solutions developer GeoPro LBS contracted Beam Communications to distribute the GeoPro solution in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, GeoPro announced Aug. 3.     […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-05-10] EchoStar Satellite Services has appointed Ken Carroll COO, the company announced Aug. 4.      Carroll will have oversight over capacity leasing, ViP-TV and other satellite-related businesses as […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-10] EchoStar Broadcasting Corp. will open a 77,000-square-foot data center in Cheyenne, Wyo., the company announced Aug. 3.     The data center will be located adjacent to EchoStar’s […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-10] ICO Global Communications has lost its judicial review action against the U.K. Office of Communications regulator Ofcom, which the company filed in 2009 after  Ofcom announced its […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-10] General Dynamics awarded Lockheed Martin a $71 million contract to provide communications hardware and equipment for the transmission subsystem of the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) Increment 2 […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-10] Hughes Network Systems created a new business unit, HughesNet China, as part of a joint venture agreement with China UnifiedNet, Hughes announced Aug. 3.      HughesNet China […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-10] In a justification and approval memorandum released Aug. 2, the U.S. Army said it might move away from Comtech for future Movement Tracking System 3 (MTS-3) contracts […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-10] RRsat Global Communications Network, a provider of content management and global distribution broadcast services, has launched a new religious programming platform on Intelsat’s Galaxy 19 satellite, RRsat […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-10] ViaSat Enerdyne, a supplier of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) data links, has released a multi-channel HD video encoder, which allows an IP-based data link to transmit […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-10] News Corp. has issued 340 million euros ($446 million) in financing to help pay-TV subsidiary Sky Deutschland turn its fortunes around in the German broadcast market, the […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-03-10] China placed the fifth satellite in its planned satellite navigation and positioning network into orbit, Xinhua announced Aug. 1.      The satellite, part of China’s Beidou, or […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-02-10] The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will be able to conduct launches throughout the year beginning in April, the agency announced July 29.      Under the previous […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-02-10] Honeywell received a contract from the United Launch Alliance to provide primary avionics components for guidance and navigation of the Atlas 5 rocket, Honeywell announced July 30. […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-02-10] GlobeCast CEO Christian Pinon is leaving the company, GlobeCast announced Aug. 2.      Pinon is leaving GlobeCast, a subsidiary of France Telecom, at the end of September […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-03-10] Teledyne Technologies, a manufacturer of custom electronic components completed its acquisition of satellite and microwave systems designer and manufacturer Intelek, Teledyne announced July 26.      Intelek is […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-02-10] NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) tabbed five science instruments for the first mission joint instrument to Mars, the agencies announced Aug. 2.      The ExoMars […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-02-10] Astrium won a contract worth 55.2 million euros ($72 million) from the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) to manufacture and launch an Earth observation optical […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-02-10]  SES saw modest revenue growth in its 2010 second quarter at 844.9 million euros ($1.1 billion), an increase of 4.5 percent compared to the same stage last […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-02-10]  ViaSat has contracted Cavium Networks to supply its Octeon Multi-Core processor technology to power ViaSat’s next-generation subscriber terminals and SurfBeam 2 broadband aggregation gateways, Cavium announced July […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-02-10]  Eutelsat saw its 2010 full-year revenues increase more than 11 percent over its 2009 year-end results to 1.05 billion euros ($1.37 billion), with net profits increasing 9 […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-02-10]  Harris Corp. has completed its $525 million acquisition of CapRock Communications, Harris announced July 30.     As a result of the combination, Harris will acquire CapRock’s end-to-end […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-02-10] Orbital Sciences has been selected by NASA as the prime contractor under the Sounding Rocket Operations Contract 2 (NSROC 2) program, the company announced July 30.     […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-02-10] Canadian antenna manufacturer C-Com Satellite Systems saw its 2010 second quarter net profits increase by 27.4 percent to $501,432 Canadian dollars ($486,827) despite a 29.5 percent drop […]

Ever since the FCC opened the door to the use of satellite spectrum for terrestrial networks, it has seemed like a case of the tail waging the dog. It is […]

President Obama was expected to sign into law in July the Dodd-Frank Act, the most extensive reform of financial services regulation since the Great Depression. The reforms look to be […]

Regardless of whether data is transmitted via radio wave, fiber optic strand or copper cable, if the network the data rides on interconnects with the Internet, the data is at […]

The Deepwater Horizon and other specialized vessels like her are designed to operate in waters more than a mile deep and can drill wells more than five miles into the […]

Astrium to Develop ReUsable Upper Stage Launcher The European Space Agency (ESA) awarded Astrium a two-year contract to develop technologies for reusable upper stages for launchers. The contract, worth 20 […]

Chello Multicanal is a leading channel provider in Spain and Portugal and part of the Chellomedia Group. Earlier this year, Chellomedia acquired Teuve, a group of TV channels previously owned […]