E-letter: Briefs

[Satellite TODAY 03-21-11] Wavestream has introduced new indoor and outdoor PowerStream 400-watt C-band solid state power amplifiers as plug-and-play replacements for traditional 750-watt traveling wave tube amplifier (TWTA) products used...

[Satellite TODAY 03-21-11] The U.S. Army’s Force 21 Battle Command Brigade placed $71.1 million in Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT-2) orders with ViaSat under the indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity BFT-2 contract...

[Satellite TODAY 03-21-11] GeoEye’s $3.8 billion EnhancedView contract with the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) helped the satellite imagery provider increase its 2010 revenues 22 percent from 2009 to $330.3...

[Satellite TODAY 03-21-11] The U.S. Department of Defense placed a $1.2 million Ka-band amplifier order with Comtech Xicom to power military satellite communication terminals, Comtech announced March 17.     Comtech...

[Satellite TODAY 03-21-11] GeoScan is forming plans for a potential global Earth-observation network using hosted payloads on Iridium’s next-generation satellite constellation, Iridium Next, the mobile satellite service provider announced March...

[Satellite TODAY 03-21-11] African telecommunications wholesaler Gateway Communications selected Gilat Satellite Networks to be its primary VSAT provider, Gilat announced March 17.     The strategic partnership will be supported by...

[Satellite TODAY 03-18-11] Integral Systems was selected by Intelsat to provide Epoch Integrated Product Suite (IPS) satellite command and control software to manage the Intelsat 21 and Intelsat 22 satellites,...

[Satellite TODAY 03-18-11] Inmarsat is launching data services on its IsatPhone Pro global handheld satellite phone at the end of March, the MSS operator announced March 16.      The new...

[Satellite TODAY 03-18-11] VSAT network operator Bentley Walker has purchased iDirect’s SatManage network management system and customer management and Network Operations Center (NOC) toolset to help Bentley automate, monitor and...

[Satellite TODAY 03-18-11] NDS renewed its agreement with DirecTV to continue to deliver set-top box software and DVR technology to DirecTV’s U.S. and Latin American businesses through January 2016, NDS...