E-letter: Briefs

[Satellite TODAY 08-25-10] Harris Corp. has opened a new digital TV facility in Brazil, the company announced Aug. 24.     The facility, based in Campinas, a region 80 miles northwest...

[Satellite TODAY 08-24-10] RigNet, a managed communications solutions provider for the upstream oil and gas industry, has signed an agreement with Stratos Global to become an authorized distributor of Inmarsat...

[Satellite TODAY 08-24-10] German start-up communications company TakWak GmbH has received 2.5 million Euros ($3.1 million) in financing from the European Space Agency’s Open Sky Technologies Fund to develop a...

[Satellite TODAY 08-24-10] SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft has successfully completed a high altitude drop test and has met all of the testing program’s objectives, the launch company announced Aug. 23.    ...

[Satellite TODAY 08-24-10] Gilat Satellite Networks will receive $24 million in cash for its stake in health information provider Axolotl, which is being acquired by health information technology company Ingenix,...

[Satellite TODAY 08-24-10] More than half of individuals who have seen 3-D movies plan to purchase a 3-D capable TV set in the next three years, according to an Altman...

[Satellite TODAY 08-23-10] The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is planning to build a wireless small-satellite network to provide a scalable set of open standard technologies, the agency...

[Satellite TODAY 08-23-10] KVH and ViaSat have expanded KVH’s mini-VSAT Broadband network capacity in the North American region by more than 500 percent, the companies announced Aug. 20.     KVH...

[Satellite TODAY 08-23-10] Broadcaster Canal Digital appointed Patrik Hofbauer CEO, parent company Telenor announced Aug. 20.     Hofbauer, currently CEO of broadcaster Clear Channel Sweden, will start his new role...

[Satellite TODAY 08-23-10] The pay-TV hybrid set-top box market may see 90 million units by 2015, according to an IMS Research study released Aug 20.     The report, “The World...