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Oakley released a new ski goggles with Heads Up Display, Bluetooth and GPS capabilities in partnership with Recon Instruments and Apple

Almost 25 percent of wireless cell towers in 10 states are down due to Hurricane Sandy.

India is planning to exponentially increase the reach of broadband across the whole country from 20 million users to 600 million in just eight years.

[Satellite TODAY Insider 10-31-12] United Kingdom-based manufacturer Cobham has combined all of the company’s satellite communications businesses into one organization following its successful acquisition and integration of Danish satellite communications […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-31-12] Global high-resolution Earth imagery solutions provider DigitalGlobe has signed a multiyear contract with a sixth undisclosed Direct Access Program (DAP) customer, the company announced Oct. 30.   […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-31-12] Thomson Video Networks’ ViBE VS7000 multi-screen video platform is certified to be used with Anevia‘s ViaMotion system to provide over-the-top (OTT) video transcoding, packaging, and streaming solution […]

 Satellite TODAY 10-31-12] CASBAA CEO Simon Twiston Davies was honored with the annual CASBAA Chairman’s Award at the CASBAA Convention 2012 in Hong Kong, the association announced Oct. 31. Twiston […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-31-12] AFCEA International and the IEEE Communications Society cancelled the Milcom 2012 conference due to inclement weather from Hurricane Sandy, the organizations announced Oct. 30.       […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-30-12] Norsat has launched its Satellite Locator App for Android, the company announced Oct. 29. The App enables users to locate geostationary satellites, assess obstructions and point satellite […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-30-12] T-HT (Hvratski Telecom), Croatia’s largest telco, has seen encouraging early take-up of its DTH service in Croatia. At the end of September, the company had 22,000 DTH […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 10-30-11] Asia continues to be a market on the rise with the number of multi-channel homes now close to half a billion. In its latest study, CASBAA […]

[Satellite News 10-30-12] SpeedCast, which now has new owners in TA Associates, a global growth private equity firm, could look to make acquisitions in Africa to boost its competitive position in […]

[Satellite News 10-30-12] Indonesia is one of Asia’s top potential markets for pay-TV services. The country, which has a population of close to 250 million people, could offer rich pickings for […]

ULA engine issue causes delays of two Air Force launches.

Arianespace is getting set to launch key satellites for Eutelsat and Star One, as both operators target high growth verticals in developing markets. The Eutelsat 21B and Star One C3 […]

After five years of work, South Korean artist Hojun Song is working on the last stage to launch his CubeSat in 2013

A report from the Satellite Sentinel Project confirms Sudan's claims of an air strike from Israel at the Yarmouk weapons factory.

The seventh Ariane 5 to be launched from French Guiana this year carrying the Skynet 5D and Mexsat 3 telecommunication satellites is beginning to take shape

[Satellite TODAY 10-30-12] OnAir has signed a new deal with Honeywell making OnAir the distributor of Inmarsat’s Global Xpress Ka-band aircraft connectivity services to the business and general aviation segment. […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-30-12] ViaSat has received orders in excess of $11 million for Joint IP Modem Network Control Centers (NCCs), remote modems, and Joint IP Modem enhancements, the company announced, […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-29-12] SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft returned from the International Space Station and has safely splashed down to Earth approximately 250 miles off the coast of southern California, the launch […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-29-12] Amos satellite operator Spacecom has been awarded two contracts by DRS Technical Services – one for C-band capacity on Amos-5 and another for Ku-band satellite capacity on […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-29-12] Measat Satellite Systems has reached an agreement with Encompass Digital Media to add the History North East Asia regional feed on the Measat-3 satellite located at the […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-29-12] Inmarsat has launched a new IsatPhone Pro humanitarian aid package that aims to provide NGOs with a total of 3,000 minutes per month that can be shared […]

[Satellite News 10-26-12] Eutelsat’s latest set of results have been met favorably by analysts and have just about beaten their expectations in terms of overall revenue performance. Overall, the company […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-29-12] European FSS operator Eutelsat grew its revenues 6.5 percent in its 2012-2013 first quarter to reach 314.4 million euros ($406.3 million), driven by a 43.7 percent growth […]

[Satellite TODAY 10-29-12] VSAT Systems subsidiary Datzap has been granted a license to operate in Costa Rica following three years of negotiations with the Costa Rican government and U.S. trade […]

With an investment of $3.5 billion, the U.S. Air Force is looking for a new upgrading contract for its Space Fence program.

Vital satellites for predicting and preparing for weather emergencies are near their useful life expiration.

[Satellite TODAY 10-29-12] ScheduALL is set to demonstrate the automatic satellite communication resource sharing features of its ERM application (ERMa) add-on module next month at the Satcon trade show, the […]