E-letter: News Feed

[Satellite TODAY 07-29-11] L-3 Communications Holdings will spinoff some of its government services operations in the first half of 2012 to form a new company and free itself from potential […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 07-28-11] Satellite operators and regulators are finding it more difficult to determine the value of mobile broadband spectrum as changes in technology and the increasing availability of […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-28-11] Clear Channel Satellite will launch a Ku-band service on Aug. 1 that enables radio stations to receive their programming using a much smaller satellite dish, the broadcaster […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-28-11] Teledyne subsidiary Paradise Datacom has released a new technology that aims to allow satellite operators to combat In-band satellite interference, the company announced July 27.    Paradise […]

[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 News 07-28-11] GeoEye’s stocks are surging based on rumors that were published July 27 from various financial analysis firms that the imagery solutions provider hired Goldman Sachs to explore […]

[Satellite News 07-28-11] During the last year and a half, 17 FSS operators invested in Ka-band, with six of those companies already completing Ka-band capacity service launches, according to a […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 07-27-11] C-Com Satellite Systems’ second quarter 2011 revenues jumped 181.2 percent to $6.41 million compared with $2.2 million in the same period last year, with quarterly net […]

[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 News 07-26-11] Spanish space company GMV will develop the ground segment for Turkish satellite operator Turksat’s 4A and 4B satellites under a 5 million euro ($7.24 million) subcontract issued […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 07-26-11] The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) criticized a U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) National Broadband Plan proposal to reclaim an additional 120 MHz of spectrum from […]

[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 07-26-11] 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 News 07-26-11] Israeli satellite bandwidth optimization company Novelsat hopes its NS3T satellite transmission modulation technology will be considered a breakthrough improvement on the current second-generation DVB-S2 standard.    The […]

[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 07-25-11] 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 Insider 07-25-11] Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSBc) generated revenues of $44.53 million in its 2011 fiscal second quarter, according to its latest financial results issued July 22. While TSBc’s figures […]

[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 07-22-11] 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 News 07-22-11] Orbital Sciences’ management modestly raised the company’s full year 2011 revenue, earnings, and cash flow forecast after reporting that all three of its operating segments delivered year-over-year […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 07-22-11] U.S. military budget cuts proposed in Congress’ Defense Appropriations bill in June risk the loss of skilled aerospace workforce, as well as capabilities to design and […]