Boeing awarded a contract to Hughes Network Systems to develop mission management, system control, networking and ground hub capabilities supporting anti-jam satellite communications capability for the Air Force's Protected Tactical Enterprise Service (PTES) program. Work on the contract was initiated in late 2018 and is expected to run through 2025. The PTES program aims to…

Iridium Communications unveiled its new southern hemisphere ground station, located in Punta Arenas, Chile. The addition of the Punta Arenas teleport network site adds geographic diversity to Iridium's ground stations as its only southern hemisphere site, establishing a new layer of network redundancy for the constellation. The Punta Arenas site was built in partnership with Kongsberg…

Hawthorne: Amazon’s vision is to democratize access to satellites and the enormous amounts of increasingly important data they’re collecting. Substantial investments are required to build the ground

Leidos awarded DataPath, a provider of communications solutions, a prime contract to provide software and integration support to a communications program located in the Antarctic. Leidos provides logistical support to the National Science Foundation (NSF)-managed United States Antarctic Program through the Antarctic Support Contract (ASC). Leidos administers a satellite communications ground network on behalf of this program,…