E-letter: Briefs

AST Launches E-mail Service for IsatPhone Pro Applied Satellite Technology (AST) has released Onsatmail, a free compressed e-mail service for IsatPhone Pro handheld satellite phones. The service will leverage a firmware...

EMS Technologies Wins Iridium Next Hardware Contract 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...

SpaceX Adds Astronaut to Safety, Mission Assurance Team Retired NASA Astronaut Garrett Reisman has joined SpaceX as senior engineer of astronaut safety and mission assurance. Reisman will join another former NASA...

[Satellite TODAY 04-29-11] SES World Skies signed three capacity deals with IP, Ethernet, data center and video solutions provider Global Crossing, which will increase its corporate network capacity with an...

[Satellite TODAY 04-29-11] Satellite machine-to-machine (M2M) solutions provider Numerex Corp. produced a 25 percent, year-over-year growth in subscriptions during its 2011 first quarter, breaking the one million mark at 1,224,000...

[Satellite TODAY 04-29-11] Security tracking specialist Track24 launched a global tracking and messaging system for individuals and small businesses, which utilizes the Iridium satellite network and Track24’s mapping software to...

[Satellite TODAY 04-29-11] Video delivery solutions provider Sencore renewed its global partnership agreement with Netherlands-based DekTec Digital Video to jointly develop products and share technologies for customer offerings, the two...

[Satellite TODAY 04-29-11] An unnamed U.S. satellite company issued Com Dev an authorization to proceed on a contract to commence engineering work and provide equipment for a new mobile communications...

[Satellite TODAY 04-28-11] NASA has postponed its scheduled May launch of a Minotaur 4 rocket from its Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska due to its similarities to the Orbital Sciences...

[Satellite TODAY 04-28-11] Danish national broadcaster DR has selected Snell’s Mosart automation system to drive its DR Update news channel distributed via satellite, terrestrial and Internet streaming, DR announced April...