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[Satellite TODAY 06-04-10] Arqiva won a platform deal with Italian digital cinema distributor Microcinema, Arqiva announced June 3.     Microcinema will use Arqiva’s digital cinema platform on the Intelsat IS905 […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-04-10] Comtech’s 2010 third quarter financial results, released June 3, shattered market expectations with revenues increasing 68 percent to $216 million over the same period in 2009, beating […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-04-10] SpaceX launched its Falcon-9 rocket and achieved Earth orbit, marking a successful inaugural performance for the highly anticipated medium-lift launch vehicle.     The rocket lifted off from […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-04-10] HBO Asia signed a long-term transponder lease agreement with APT Satellite for capacity on Apstar 2R (Telstar 10) and Apstar 2R’s replacement satellite, Apstar 7, set to […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-04-10] Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) CEO Marian Blakey said her organization is “encouraged” by space-related provisions included in the U.S. Fiscal 2011 Defense Authorization Act passed by Congress […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) appointed S. Ramakrishnan director of its liquid propulsion systems center, the organization announced June 2.      Ramakrishnan previously served as projects […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-04-10] U.K. ship management company Zodiac Maritime Agencies has completed retrofitting its entire 156-ship fleet with Iridium OpenPort maritime satellite terminals, the MSS operator announced June 3.   […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-04-10] Citibank has increased its committed credit facility to Globecomm Systems from $50 million to $65 million and renewed the facility for a year, Globecomm announced June 3. […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-04-10] Intelsat CTO Thierry Guillemin has revealed the details of its behind-the-scenes cooperative effort with customers and AMC-11 operator SES to mitigate interference threats posed by Galaxy 15 […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-04-10] Via Satellite magazine’s June 2010 Military E-Newsletter features an interview with former CapRock CTO and new Xtar President and COO Philip Harlow, a detailed look into the […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-04-10] Arqiva has launched the Ahl-e-bait channel on the Hot Bird satellite neighborhood with fiber architecture support to audiences in Europe, the company announced June 2.  Ahl-e-bait, produced […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] According to Satellite TODAY’s May 2010 Web poll results, 67.9 percent of respondents said they believe commercial launch capacity will increase in the future as a result […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] Swedish Space Corp. (SSC) has been awarded a $200,000 contract to provide S-band ranging service to the Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) for its Communications, Ocean and […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] Orbit Technologies won a contract to supply its systems for tracking low orbiting civilian imagery satellites to an unnamed Israeli satellite imaging company, Orbit announced June 2. […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] Gilat Satellite Networks has been chosen by Ethiopia’s national telecom operator, Ethiopian Telecommunication Corp. (ETC), to provide satellite communications equipment for deployment as part of the country’s […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] CapRock CTO Philip Harlow has left the company to join Xtar LLC as president and COO, Xtar announced June 2.     Harlow succeeds Denis Curtin, who is […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] Iridium Communications awarded a fixed-price contract to Thales Alenia Space for the design and construction of satellites for the Iridium Next constellation, Iridium announced June 2.     […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] SpaceX is targeting a 4-hour window on June 4 for its first test launch attempt of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, with a back-up date June 5, […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-02-10] ND SatCom has promoted CTO and COO Johann Pohany to president and CEO effective immediately, the company announced June 2. Pohany succeeds Norbert Hölzle, who was promoted […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] German VSAT Internet provider Level 421 has selected optimization technology from XipLink to implement a German government SCPC VSAT network, XipLink announced June 2.     The XipLink […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-02-10] VT iDirect has released a new line of software packages for its SatManage network management system, the company announced June 1.     iDirect has combined the product’s […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-02-10] Venezuelan telecoms operator CanTV has signed a deal with China Digital TV Holding Co. (CDT), which will see the Chinese company install various systems and solutions on […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-02-10] Intelsat’s Galaxy 15 satellite has safely passed SES’s AMC-11 satellite after Intelsat lost control of the spacecraft April 5 due to a solar storm anomaly, Intelsat confirmed […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-02-10] Eurovision has signed deals with SES World Skies and AsiaSat to provide satellite delivery of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, the operators announced June […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-02-10] DigitalGlobe has secured a one-year Crisis Event Service (CES) imagery agreement with the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), DigitalGlobe announced June 1.     CES, launched by DigitalGlobe […]

[Satellite TODAY 06-02-10] Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has been selected to build the Anik G1 satellite for Telesat, the companies announced June 1.    The Anik G1 multi-mission spacecraft will be […]

Nearly everyone reading this article is involved in some way in the transmission of energy either to a satellite or a ground station. This means that you have probably heard […]

 AsiaSat CEO Peter Jackson, a key figure in the Asian satellite industry since the early 1970s, will retire in July from his position as leader of the satellite operator. William […]

A working document from the European Parliament assesses the mid-term status of the European Union’s satellite navigation program, which consists of a geostationary system called EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay […]

Years ago, I did a study on terrestrial versus satellite broadband. At the time, not so long after the failure of initiatives such as Teledesic, it was easy to be […]