E-letter: Briefs

[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 03-17-11] Inmarsat has entered into a partnership with SkyWave Mobile Communications to develop IsatData Pro, a new low-data rate tracking, monitoring and messaging service planned for launch in...

[Satellite TODAY 03-17-11] SES has selected International Launch Services (ILS) to launch the SES-6 satellite on a Proton rocket in 2013, ILS announced March 16.     The SES-6 mission is...

[Satellite TODAY 03-17-11] DigitalGlobe contracted Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services to launch the WorldView-3 next-generation, high-resolution Earth-imaging satellite on an Atlas 5 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in...

[Satellite TODAY 03-17-11] iDirect has added SCPC return channel capability to its IP satellite communications platform, bringing TDMA and SCPC technology to the same product, the manufacturer announced March 15....

[Satellite TODAY 03-17-11] EMS Technologies’ Defense and Space Division has been contracted by Iridium’s prime contractor Thales Alenia Space to provide L-band communications hardware for the Iridium Next constellation, EMS...

[Satellite TODAY 03-16-11] Xtar received a multi-million dollar contract to provide 79.5 MHz of X-band services to Intelsat General from the Xtar-Eur satellite over the Middle East and Europe, Xtar...

[Satellite TODAY 03-16-11] Intelsat has selected MDA to service and extend the life of its on-orbit satellites via MDA’s space-based service vehicle in a contract valued at more than $280...

[Satellite TODAY 03-16-11] Tachyon Networks is expanding its broadband capacity over Southwest Asia after signing a Ku-band capacity lease on Eutelsat‘s Sesat 2 satellite, the operator announced March 15.    ...