webdesign

The Airborne Laser missile defense system has begun flight tests with the entire weapon system integrated aboard the aircraft, The Boeing Co. [BA] announced. Boeing, the prime ABL contractor, contributed […]

Other Launches Also Are Juggled Space Shuttle Atlantis will lift off at 2:01 p.m. ET May 11 from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, a day earlier than planned, […]

China launched another of its COMPASS navigational satellites, in a constellation of birds that eventually will provide global-wide navigational signals much like the U.S. Global Positioning Satellites (GPS), Xinhua, the […]

Space not only can be but must be explored, with missions to the moon, Mars, and ultimately to planets circling other stars in the nearby universe, according to Stephen Hawking, […]

Griffin Concerned Future Is Bleak The Obama White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is proposing a $3.5 billion NASA budget cut that would hurt the Constellation Program developing […]

The Hubble Space Telescope spotted galaxies colliding, with the smashup producing a long trail of new blue stars, streaming away from the nuclei of those galaxies, the European Space Agency […]

Richard Yelen, vice president, managing director, NeuLion and KyLinTV, talks with SatelelliteToday.TV at the NAB 2009 show in Las Vegas

Dick Tauber, vice president of Transmission Systems and New Technology, CNN News Group, talks with SatelliteToday.TV at the NAB 2009 show in Las Vegas

[Satellite Today 04-27-09] Dumrong Kasemset will step down as executive chairman of Thaicom in mid-May, the company announced April 23.     Kasemset has been the director of Thaicom’s satellite broadband […]

[Satellite Today 04-27-09] International Datacasting Corp.‘s (IDC) wholly owned subsidiary, ProFline B.V., has been awarded a contract to provide a next-generation satellite distribution network to German public broadcaster Sud-West-Rundfunk (SWR), […]

[Satellite Today 04-27-09] Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX)  completed qualification testing of its Draco spacecraft thruster and Draco propulsion tank, the launch company announced April 24.     The Draco thruster test […]

[Satellite Today 04-27-09] Uplogix, a provider of secure remote management  solutions, has partnered with Parallel, the provider of SatManage network operations center software, to combine the two products to strengthen […]

[Satellite Today 04-27-09] Inmarsat has unveiled a speed upgrade to its Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service, the company announced.     BGAN X-Stream service, which initially is available in the […]

[Satellite Today 04-27-09] Advantech Satellite Networks released its S5420 DVB-S2 VSAT modem, the company announced April 24.     The S5420 modem is capable of operating in either of two access […]

[Satellite Today 04-27-09] SES has shown solid increases in overall revenues and operating profits for 2009 first quarter, the company announced April 24.     The satellite operator reported revenues of […]

[Satellite Today 04-23-09] Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSB) has signed a capacity deal with SES Sirius to gain further capacity in the Nordic region, Telenor announced April 22.    The three-year […]

[Satellite Today 04-23-09] Thuraya signed a deal with Advanced Communications Solutions (ACS) to distribute its ThurayaIP and ThurayaMarine solutions within the Greek and Cypriot maritime sector, Thuraya announced April 22. […]

[Satellite Today 04-23-09] DiBcom, a semiconductor company, has entered into a cooperation agreement with Solaris Mobile to provide mobile television and in-vehicle entertainment, information and communication services across Europe, Solaris […]

Dish Network has launched Dish Earth, a channel offering live views of Earth, passing views of the moon, Venus, and unidentified flying object, the company announced April 22.     The […]

SES Americom added six high-definition (HD) channels from MTV networks to its HD-Prime distribution platform, bringing the total number of HD channels delivered by SES platforms to 136 and demonstrating […]

[Satellite Today 04-23-09] GeoEye has appointed Carl Alleyne to the position of vice president of engineering, the company announced April 21.     Reporting to GeoEye COO William Schuster, Alleyne will […]

[Satellite Today 04-23-09] Dish Network has launched Dish Earth, a channel offering live views of Earth, passing views of the moon, Venus, and unidentified flying object, the company announced April […]

[Satellite Today 04-23-09] ViaSat received certification from the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) for its High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor Interoperability Specification (HAIPE IS) for the ViaSat AltaSec KG-250 Inline […]

[Satellite Today 04-23-09] Lockheed Martin’s net earnings fell 9 percent to $666 million from $730 million in the same quarter last year according to its first quarter 2009 financial report, […]

[Satellite Today 04-23-09] SES Astra signed a second distribution agreement for the Spanish market with Internet service provider, Net2, SES announced April 22.    Net2 will market Astra2Connect all over […]

[Satellite Today 04-23-09] Norsat International Inc. acquired Ireland-based WiMAX provider, Bluemoon 4G Ltd., in an all-stock transaction, Norsat announced April 22.    “With the acquisition of Bluemoon, we accelerate our […]

DiBcom, a semiconductor company, has entered into a cooperation agreement with Solaris Mobile to provide mobile television and in-vehicle entertainment, information and communication services across Europe, Solaris announced April 22. […]

Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSB) has signed a capacity deal with SES Sirius to gain further capacity in the Nordic region, Telenor announced April 22.     The three-year deal will provide […]

Norsat International Inc. acquired Ireland-based WiMAX provider, Bluemoon 4G Ltd., in an all-stock transaction, Norsat announced April 22.     “With the acquisition of Bluemoon, we accelerate our entry into the […]

Maui LLC, a consortium of six broadcast stations headquartered in Hawaii, has deployed Harmonic’s ProStream 1000 stream-processing solutions and NMX digital service manager for a network rebuild, Harmonic announced April […]