E-letter: Briefs

[Satellite TODAY 07-28-11] China has launched another Beidou navigation satellite from the Xichang launch center on a Long March 3A rocket, the satellite’s developer China Academy of Space and Technology […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-28-11] Smart metering will account for more than 40 percent of the $400 million M2M connected devices market by 2016, according to a Juniper Research report issued July […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-27-11] Wholesale 4G-LTE wireless broadband and satellite network operator LightSquared has unveiled a strategic initiative to provide push-to-talk and other critical communications satellite services to public safety communities, […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-27-11] Satellite antenna manufacturer VSD has introduced its AL-7204-CONT4 Antenna Control Unit replacement kit to support its AL-7204 Television Direct-to-Sailors (TV-DTS) maritime system, the company announced July 26. […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-27-11]Satcom terminal solutions provider Skyware Global appointed Steve Strong as senior vice president of engineering, the company announced July 26.    Strong will be responsible for correlating all […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-27-11] Measat Satellite Systems has added Total Variety Network HD from Fox International Channels to the Measat-3/3a video neighborhood, bringing the total number of HD channels on the […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-26-11] Stratos Global has completed deployment of its StratosMAX 2 broadband service for independent oil and gas company W&T Offshore at 29 of its sites in the Gulf […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-26-11] Harris Corp. received a 10-year, $85 million contract extension from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to continue developing the Alaskan Satellite Telecommunications Infrastructure (ASTI) system as […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-26-11] TAM Airlines will extend its OnAir in-flight connectivity services to allow passengers to use notebooks, tablets and other devices compatible with WiFi, to access the Internet in […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-26-11] Integral Systems received a $468,000 contract from mZeal Communications to provide space systems expertise and Multi-level Secure (MLS) network architecture to support mZeal’s Mission-Aware Network Architecture for […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-25-11] A small piece of cloth stuck in a fuel line may be the reason that the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite hasn’t reached its […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-25-11] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has deployed the communication antenna on-board the recently launched GSAT-12 communication satellite, ISRO chairman K. Radhakrishnan announced July 22.    ISRO […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-25-11] Canadian satellite information solutions company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has received $7.9 million in follow-on contracts from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the company announced July […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-25-11] Spanish DTH provider Digital Plus has signed a strategic partnership with Cisco Systems, the companies announced July 22.    The alliance between the two companies will enable Digital […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-22-11] After a series of delays, Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) confirmed it has completed construction of the ViaSat-1 high-capacity satellite and is preparing to ship the spacecraft to the […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-22-11] IP video distribution solutions provider Haivision Network Video has acquired both U.S.-based KulaByte and German imaging company MontiVision Technologies for an undisclosed amount, Haivision announced July 21. […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-22-11] The European Commission (EC) has granted Dublin-based hybrid satellite and terrestrial wireless network operator Solaris Mobile a combined Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) and Complementary Ground Control (CGC) […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-22-11] Mobile and fixed-site remote communications solutions provider Stratos has acquired a majority of Blue Ocean Wireless’ (BOW) operational assets and will assume responsibility for providing services to […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-21-11] Thales Alenia Space has won Phase B contracts from Italian space agency ASI to support two parts of the Solar Orbiter satellite mission under the European Space […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-21-11] Gilat has been selected by the Russian Yakutia Ministry of Finance to provide a full turnkey SkyEdge 2 broadband satellite network, which will serve new Ministry of […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-21-11] Orbital Sciences’ Dawn interplanetary spacecraft has successfully completed its rendezvous and achieved orbit around the solar system’s second most massive asteroid, Vesta, the company announced July 20. […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-21-11] German VSAT network solutions provider Romantis has entered into a distribution agreement with satellite systems integrator iSat to extend its global product reach in Europe, Middle East […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-20-11] ViaSat will delay the launch of its ViaSat-1 satellite by a few weeks after the spacecraft’s manufacturer Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) discovered and reviewed a malfunction in a […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-20-11]The U.S. Defense Information Technology Contracting Organization has awarded Inmarsat subsidiary Stratos Government Services a maximum $315 million, eight-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to provide satellite communications to the […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-20-11] Station711, the mobile satellite division of RRsat Global Communications Network, has launched Inmarsat IsatPhone Link commercial services to various enterprise markets, Station711 announced July 19.    The […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-20-11] Vizada has launched a range of global maritime broadband packages integrating Ku-band VSAT and mobile satellite services (MSS), the company announced July 19.    The service package […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-20-11] International Launch Services’ (ILS) first shared payload Proton-M rocket launch was a success, carrying the SES-3 and KazSat-2 telecommunications satellites July 15 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-19-11] The second of 12 U.S. Air Force Global Positioning System (GPS) 2F satellites, SVN-63, was successfully launched on a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket. The satellite’s […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-19-11] Satellite operator and service provider O3b Networks has completed a Critical Design Review (CDR) of its constellation’s space segment, the company announced July 18.    In a […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-19-11] Geospatial information solutions provider GeoEye has delivered EnhancedView Web Hosting Service (WHS) capabilities to the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the company announced July 18.    EnhancedView […]