E-letter: News Feed

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has selected Gilat Satellite Networks’ SatTrooper-1000 military Manpack terminal for advanced tactical field communications.

SpeedCast has boosted its position in Asia by acquiring Pactel International, a satellite communications service provider based in Australia.

SpeedCast has boosted its position in Asia by acquiring Pactel International, a satellite communications service provider based in Australia.

Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) has appointed Blake Mclane as its new President.

ETL Systems, a British designer and manufacturer of RF distribution equipment for satellite communications, has received its third Queen’s Award for International Trade for the growth the company has experienced in overseas sales, which represent 75 percent of total revenues.

[Satellite TODAY 04-23-13] The EMA Group has gained a key regulatory approval in Asia. The company announced that BlueTraker VMS, its latest generation of marine grade satellite terminals especially designed […]

Media Partners Asia (MPA) projects there will be close to 700 million pay-TV subscribers in Asia by 2020, up from 444 million in 2012. This is one of the key findings of the company’s new research report “Asia Pacific Pay-TV & Broadband.”

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a contract to ATK to support the agency’s Space Enabled Effects for Military Engagements (SeeMe) program.

ATK Wins Contract to Support DARPA SeeMe SES, Inverto, Abilis and MaxLinear have been jointly designing the first low-noise block down-converter (LNB) that will incorporate eight-channel satellite-to-IP bridging technology for cost-effective IP distribution of satellite television to the home.

Hughes Network has launched HughesON, a new suite of managed network and digital media solutions for the enterprise and government markets.

A teacher at Mainland High School in Daytona Beach, Fla. has been awarded the 2013 Space Foundation’s Dr. Catherine Pedretty Space Scholarship for Teachers.

[Satellite TODAY 04-19-13] SES and Eutelsat Communications have both made key Ultra-HD (4K) announcements in the last 24 hours. Eutelsat revealed it was teaming up with leading Turkish pay-TV provider, […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-19-13] Advantech Wireless has released a new addition to its suite of Drive-Away VSAT Antenna line. The Polaris K-Class is a compact roof mount antenna system that delivers […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-19-13] Arianespace announced the success of the Soyuz’ 1802nd flight. The rocket liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 14:00 Moscow time on Friday, April 19.   […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-19-13] Orbital Sciences Corporation has announced the next launch attempt for its new Antares rocket. After a faulty umbilical connection on Wednesday caused the initial launch to be […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-19-13] Eutelsat Communications announced that 8.2 million Italian homes are now equipped with a Direct-to-Home antenna, which equals to one in every three TV homes in Italy. The […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-13] Arianespace has appointed Stéphane Israël as its new chairman and CEO, the company announced April 18. Israël replaces Jean-Yves Le Gall, who is the new president of […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-13] Intelsat has taken the next step on what it hopes will be a successful IPO process, a process in which it hopes to derive over $470 million […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-13] Digitürk, Turkey’s leading pay-TV operator, is the latest DTH operator to enter into the 4K arena. The company has launched a dedicated demonstration 4K channel in partnership […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-13] Cal-Bay Systems has introduced its Spectrum DefenderTM, a new instrument that combines both spectrum monitoring and RF recording into one portable, off-the-shelf PXI-based platform.     As FCC […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-13] Beam Communications, a wholly owned subsidiary of World Reach Limited, has provided a satellite communication solution to Australian charity organization Just 4 Kids to be used on […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-13] MetiSpace Technologies CEO Theresa Beech is confident that the company can make a big impact in the U.S. government market this year. GMV, the private multi-national firm, […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-17-13] Thuraya has boosted its position in Latin America by extending its GSM roaming coverage to 11 additional countries across the Americas in partnership with leading telecommunications providers, […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-17-13] Eutelsat Communication’s Eutelsat 3D satellite is now undergoing final preparations for launch aboard an International Launch Services (ILS) Proton Breeze M rocket at the Baikonour Cosmodrome in […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-17-13] TrustComm, a small-business provider of secure Comsatcom solutions to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), has announced completion of its reorganization after the American investor group Global […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-17-13] C-Com Satellite Systems, a provider of mobile auto-deploying satellite antenna systems, has seen a significant increase in revenues and profits in the first quarter. This was one […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-17-13] Content distributor In Demand has renewed its capacity agreement with SES for the delivery of PPV and Video On Demand sports and entertainment television content to cable […]

A new report from Digital TV Research indicates that the digital TV penetration in Latin America is about to shoot up.

NASA has awarded the University of California, Berkeley, up to $200 million to build a satellite to study how the Earth's weather affects the weather at the edge of space.

International Launch Services (ILS) has successfully delivered Telesat’s Anik G1 satellite into orbit on an ILS Proton launch vehicle.