E-letter: Briefs

[Satellite TODAY 12-02-09] KVH Industries signed a multi-year agreement with Telesat to utilize the African coverage of Telstar 11N satellite, Telesat announced Dec. 1.     Telstar 11N’s Ku-band capacity over...

[Satellite TODAY 12-02-09]  Foxtel has launched a DVR satellite TV service in Australia using NDS’ XTV technology, NDS said Nov. 30.     The service aims to enable Foxtel subscribers to...

[Satellite TODAY 12-02-09]  Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) chairman Martin Sweeting was awarded the Faraday Medal from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in the United Kingdon, SSTL announced...

[Satellite TODAY 12-01-09] Stratos Global Corp. has been contracted to install Inmarsat’s FleetBroadband 150 (FB150) mobile broadband satellite service on Zakher Marine International’s (ZMI) shipping vessels, Stratos announced Nov. 30....

Hughes Sells Jupiter Capacity to Barrett Xplore Hughes Network Systems sold 10 gigabits per second (Gbps) of capacity on its Jupiter satellite to Canadian broadband provider Barrett Xplore in a...

iDirect Launches Broadband Service in Lebanon Lebanese Internet service provider IDMI launched an iDirect-based satellite broadband service for corporate enterprises, financial institutions and government organizations in the Middle East, North...

Dielectric Unveils Low-Power Digital Antennas, Filters Dielectric Communications is launching a line of digital antennas and filters targeting low-power television (LPTV) broadcasters. The hardware is designed to optimize LPTV digital...

[Satellite TODAY 12-01-09] CapRock Government Solutions has deployed CommandAccess, its commercial off-the-shelf communications service for military and civilian agencies stationed in remote areas of operation, the company announced Nov. 30. ...

[Satellite TODAY 12-01-09] Canadian satellite manufacturer Com Dev International’s fourth-quarter sales and profits will be $4.3 million lower than expected due to manufacturing issues with two of the company’s government-related...

[Satellite TODAY 12-01-09] Nagravision, a Kudelski Group company, signed a global license agreement with Neotion, a French manufacturer of conditional access modules (CAM) to integrate, produce and market Neotion CAMs...