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Gilat Satellite Networks’ Wavestream Ku-band Matchbox Mini Block Upconverter is available immediately

The Gazprom-owned Yamal-402 satellite eventually reached orbit early Tuesday after its course was corrected by space officials.

Telecommunications company Vivacom has increased the download speeds and doubled the monthly bandwidth allowance for its satellite-based internet services.

MapBox, a provider of open source solutions for designing and publishing maps via the cloud, has selected DigitalGlobe as their commercial earth imagery provider.

The Indian Space Research Organization announced its plans to launch its heavy-lift Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).

Russian Proton heavy-lift rocket suffered a failure during launch, delivering Gazprom Space System’s telecommunication satellite into a lower orbit than desired.

Iran’s oil tankers are sending incorrect satellite signals to global tracking systems to conceal their voyages to Syria.

North Korea announced it plans to delay the launch of a long-range rocket to orbit a satellite originally scheduled to take off between December 10 and 22, 2012.

NASA released high-quality images of the Plosky Tolbachik volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula that suddenly erupted after being dormant for 36 years.

[Satellite News 12-10-12] After two years of frustrating decline, Comtech’s MTS/BFT business declined 61 percent to $10 million in the 2013 first quarter and now consists primarily of support services […]

All of Globalstar’s six satellites scheduled for launch in early February are now at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, completed when the final two satellites arrived at the launch complex Dec. 9

Gilat Satcom has partnered with XipLink to accelerate web-surfing speeds and satellite communications throughput.

OnAir’s inflight connectivity is now a linefit option for Mobile OnAir and Internet OnAir to be equipped with Dassault’s Falcon 7X and available for 2014 delivery.

[Satellite TODAY 12-10-12] Portugal’s Upstar Comunicacoes has chosen Nevion to upgrade their existing video transport infrastructure with greater channel capacity, longer distance transport and increased redundancy, the company announced Dec. […]

Gokturk-2 is Turkey’s second homemade earth observation satellite and is scheduled to launch Dec. 19 from the Chinese Jiuquan Base.

[Satellite News 12-07-12] (London, United Kingdom) The Global VSAT Forum’s Ka-band roundtable assembly in London this week featured top speakers from regulators, legal firms, as well as satellite companies all […]

The new MapBox Satellite allows users to customize public domain satellite imagery through its platform.

Boeing selected Saft to provide Li-ion battery packs for four new 702SP communication satellites.

NASA released new images of Earth’s night scene from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite.

[Satellite TODAY 12-07-12] Direct-to-home (DTH) satellite broadcaster Vision Asia has chosen Telstra to provide its Australian and New Zealand viewers with managed satellite services, the companies announced Dec. 7. The […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-07-12] EchoStar subsidiary EchoStar Technologies and DISH will design, manufacture and sell new energy-efficient set-top boxes (STBs), the companies announced Dec 6. EchoStar is the exclusive provider of […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-07-12] GMV USA will provide Harris Corporation with its software product for the ground system of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-Series (GOES-R), the companies announced Dec. 7. […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-07-12] Fire Watch America has been made a Space Certification Program Partner and is now authorized to carry the Certified Space Technology seal, the Space Foundation announced Dec. […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 12-07-12] Shaw Direct, which has over 900,000 DTH subscribers in Canada, is looking to bring a variety of new applications to its customer base in Canada. Shaw […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-06-12] SpeedCast and its majority shareholder TA Associates have bought out Australian Satellite Communications (ASC), the Hong Kong global network and satcom services provider announced Dec. 6. Providing […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-06-12] EchoStar has hired former FCC Office of Engineering and Technology Deputy Chief Jennifer A. Manner as its Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, the company announced Dec. 6. […]

The Pentagon is opening up to other options besides United Launch Alliance for launchers for its military satellites.

The Space Foundation, a global nonprofit organization focused on space awareness and education, released a report this week about U.S. leadership in space.

A team of researchers from Ohio State University has suggested satellites as a new way to detect nuclear tests.

The U.S. Air Force has awarded two contracts to SpaceX in the latest move to foster competition in the country’s launch market.