E-letter: News Feed

[Satellite TODAY 07-08-11] Wholesale integrated 4G-LTE wireless broadband and satellite network operator LightSquared has taken another step to resolve its GPS interference issued by establishing the Empower Rural America Initiative, […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-08-11] Ico Global Communications has added several key members to its senior management team, the company announced July 6.     Clearwire Co-Founder Robert Mechaley has been appointed chief scientist […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-07-11] Raytheon has been awarded the first competitive Public Safety LTE contract issued in the United States, as well as the first contract under the U.S. Broadband Technology […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-07-11] Integral Systems Europe (ISE) has completed the delivery and installation of a carrier monitoring, signal analysis and RF interference detection system for Italian network operator Mediaset Group, […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-07-11] Geospatial information services provider GeoEye signed a multi-year, multi-million-dollar agreement with its Russian partner, ScanEx Research and Development Center, to provide more than 50 million square kilometers […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-07-11] Lockheed Martin has completed a System Design Review (SDR) on-schedule for the GPS 3B satellite increment under the U.S. Air Force‘s next generation GPS 3 program, the […]

[Satellite News 07-07-11] The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) is taking a stab at in-space satellite repair and refueling by demonstrating the abilities of Dextre — its contributed service robot onboard […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 07-07-11] AT&T Corp. and Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) are objecting to Dish Network’s auction purchase of bankrupt satellite company TerreStar Network, according to court papers the two companies […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-07-11] L-3 Telemetry-East (L-3 TE) has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to upgrade fielded telemetry ground receivers to incorporate the C-band spectrum for the U.S. Air Force, the […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 07-06-11] Arianespace has won a contract to launch Telenor Satellite Broadcasting’s (TSBc) Thor 7 satellite in the fourth quarter of 2013, the launch services provider announced July […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-06-11] Wholesale integrated 4G-LTE wireless broadband and satellite network provider LightSquared has raised an additional $265 million in capital drawn from both existing and new investors in the […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-06-11] Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) blue force and blue personnel tracking (BFT/BPT) specialist Track24 has unveiled a new turnkey situational command and control (SCC) solution, the company announced July 5. […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-06-11] The Stanislaus County government in California has contracted DigitalGlobe to provide its Precision Aerial Imagery to allow the county government to monitor changes and manage projects, DigitalGlobe […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-06-11] The U.S. Air Force Space Command has named Apogee Engineering a prime contractor to provide engineering and communications support services for the U.S. GPS operations center in […]

[Satellite News 07-05-11] Italian Space Agency (ASI) signed an agreement with Ka-Sat operator Eutelsat Communications and its SkyLogic affiliate on July 4 to use the new high-throughput satellite to develop […]

[Satellite News 07-05-11] RapidEye CEO Wolfgang Biedermann filed for Germany’s equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last month after its financial sponsors felt the privately owned imagery firm’s overall debt […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 07-04-11] Australia’s National Broadband Network Co. (NBN) has launched commercial broadband connectivity for rural residents via its interim satellite service, NBN announced July 1.    The satellite […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-04-11] Mobile satellite services provider Thuraya opened a regional office in Singapore as part of the company’s strategy to grow its mobile satellite business across the Asia Pacific […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-04-11] The European Space Agency (ESA) has recovered a four-satellite Cluster mission from near loss by using “an unorthodox, dirty hack,” the agency announced July 1.    The […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-04-11] Consilium Marine Group, a supplier of marine products and customer services, has won a contract with Orange Business Services to market Orange’s marine VSAT communication solutions through […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-04-11] GTX Corp., a real-time, two-way GPS tracking and personal location services provider, has crossed the 1 million-download milestone mark for its GPS Tracking Apps through Apple and […]

Latin America as a region has probably frustrated and intrigued the satellite sector in equal measure through the years. With economic instability rife in the early part of the previous […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-01-11] Lockheed Martin is two weeks ahead of its production schedule for the GeoEye-2 next-generation imaging satellite it is building for Dulles, Va.-based imagery provider GeoEye, Lockheed announced […]

AsiaSat Expands Earth Station AsiaSat is expanding its Tai Po Earth Station in Hong Kong. The project consists of a 900 square meter addition for equipment, a 600 square meter […]

ABS Gains $215 Million in Bank Financing Asia Broadcast Satellite has secured $215 million in new funding. It has closed a $215 million five-year senior bank loan from a financial […]

DirecTV Starts Home Media Center Trial DirecTV has started field trial testing for its DirecTV Home Media Center. It will ultimately provide customers with a ‘receiver-less’ solution for many TVs […]

Dish Network Appoints Clayton CEO Joseph Clayton is to become the new CEO and President of Dish Network, while Charlie Ergen, who formerly held the positions of President and CEO, […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 07-01-11] Two-thirds of respondents to a World Teleport Association (WTA) enterprise sector survey said they expected that their transmission requirements would increase in the next two years, […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 07-01-11] LightSquared formally presented its modified spectrum plan to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that includes a solution to its long-standing interference issues with the GPS […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-01-11] Gilat Satellite Networks has been selected by Spanish operator Hispasat to provide a new broadband satellite IP network based on Gilat’s SkyEdge 2 System, the companies announced […]