E-letter: Briefs

[Satellite TODAY 10-27-09] Orbit Technologies signed a $3 million deal with two Israeli defense companies to supply a range of tracking solutions over the coming year, the company announced Oct....

[Satellite TODAY 10-27-09] The Kudelski Group filed additional presentation materials supporting its offer to acquire OpenTV Corp. with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Kudelski announced Oct. 26.    ...

[Satellite TODAY 10-27-09] Lockheed Martin completed a preliminary design review for the U.S. Navy’s Communications at Speed and Depth (CSD) program, which uses Iridium satellite and UHF to provide communications...

[Satellite TODAY 10-27-09] Redu Space Services has captured automatic identification system (AIS) data from the Pathfinder 2 satellite via the European Space Agency (ESA) ground station in Redu, Belgium, the...

[Satellite TODAY 10-27-09] Satellite TODAY and Satellite News will launch Oct. 28 a new, weekly Web video news channel on www.satellitetoday.tv.     Satellite TODAY News Editor Jeffrey Hill will host...

[Satellite TODAY 10-26-09] Austar, the Australian satellite pay-TV operator, had close to 740,000 subscribers at the end of third quarter, according to its financial results, issued Oct. 22.     The...

[Satellite TODAY 10-26-09] Thomson signed a long-term contract with LiveTV to develop of a live TV broadcast system for aircraft based on Thomson’s IPTV-based satellite television distribution technology, the company...

[Satellite TODAY 10-26-09] BSkyB reported that it has 1.6 million households taking HD services in the United Kingdom and Ireland in its third quarter results, issued Oct. 23.     The...

[Satellite TODAY 10-26-09] Analyst firm Informa Telecoms & Media predicts that mobile enterprise revenues will reach $92.6 billion with more than 479 million subscribers by 2014, according to an industry...

[Satellite TODAY 10-23-09] Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has received a $66 million contract from Orbital Sciences Corp. to supply proximity link system (PLS) components to Orbital’s Cygnus spacecraft in order to...