E-letter: News Feed

[Satellite TODAY 07-29-10] DigitalGlobe has opened up a call for proposals for its 8-band Research Challenge — a contest designed to encourage researchers to investigate how 8-band, high-resolution imagery can […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-29-10] CapRock Government Solutions has hired William Janosky as director of its Information Assurance product division, the company announced July 27.     Janosky will be responsible for upgrading […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-29-10] Harris Corp. has been awarded an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract to provide design, development, manufacturing, testing and sustainment of space communications systems and equipment to NASA under its […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-29-10] Russian Space Systems (RSS) has delivered the first of three Glonass-M satellites to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Khrunichev announced July 28.     Khrunichev has begun testing […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-28-10] The U.S. Army awarded ViaSat with the Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT-2) contract July 22 to upgrade 100,000 Army vehicles with a next-generation tracking system intended to […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-28-10] The U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware approved Sea Launch’s reorganization plan to prepare for its emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the third quarter, the company […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-28-10]  Australian telco Optus has signed satellite capacity deals with regional broadcasters Southern Cross Media Group, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Special Broadcasting Service and Imparja Television, the company announced […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-28-10]  The Space Data Association (SDA) has launched initial operations of its Space Data Center, an automated space situational awareness system located on the Isle of Man, the […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-28-10] South African turnkey solutions provider Q-Kon has launched its iDirect Evolution Internet Broadband VSAT Service via satellite to its customers in Africa, Q-Kon announced July 27.     […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-28-10] Lockheed Martin Space Systems saw its net sales increase 1 percent to $2.08 billion in its 2010 financial second quarter, driven by sales growth in satellites and […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-28-10] The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has extended its contract with MDA to provide surveillance operations for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) supporting its forces deployed in Afghanistan, MDA […]

[Satellite News 07-28-10] Italian Internet service provider Tiscali signed a deal with Eutelsat Communications earlier in July to launch a satellite broadband service in Italy that will be powered by […]

[Satellite News 07-27-10] In a decision that shocked analysts and even the competitors, the U.S. Army awarded ViaSat the Blue Force Tracking 2 (BFT-2) contract to upgrade 100,000 Army vehicles […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-27-10] U.K. satellite broadcast technology developer Pace has acquired 2Wire, a U.S. provider of advanced residential gateways and associated software and services from co-owners Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T, Telmex and […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-27-10] Sea Launch has signed an agreement with a subsidiary of EchoStar Satellite Services to launch up to three satellites on the Sea Launch system, the company announced […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-27-10] Boeing has met or exceeded all requirements of a critical design review for the UHF-hosted payload on the Intelsat 22 satellite (IS-22), Boeing announced July 26.     […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-27-10] Hughes Network Systems has completed a demonstration of its commercial-off-the-shelf-(COTS)-based advanced airborne video solution to an unnamed government agency, the company announced July 26.     The demonstration, […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-27-10] ITT Corp.’s GPS 3 navigation payload has passed a U.S. Air Force critical design review for the Navigation Payload Element (NPE) in support of the GPS-3 program, […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-27-10] On Digital Media has contracted Arqiva to provide contribution of channels, including Fox FX, Fox Retro, Fox Entertainment Africa and Kidsc, to its South African platform, Top […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-27-10]  Three Indian media companies have become members of the Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA), the organization announced July 26.     The new corporate members […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-27-10]  Harris Corp. named Doug Means vice president and general manager of the Workflow, Infrastructure and Networking (WIN) unit of its broadcast communications business, the company announced July […]

[Satellite News 07-27-10] Astrium has high hopes for its new AirPatrol airborne terminal, which it launched at the Farnborough Airshow last week, Aidan Joy, managing director of secure satcom systems […]

[Satellite News 07-27-10] Despite a limited market slowdown, the fixed satellite market reached a new high in revenues last year, according to an upcoming Euroconsult report, announced July 27.     […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-26-10]  Eutelsat signed an agreement with Italian telco Tiscali to expand its range of Tooway satellite broadband service broadband products by launching a satellite service targeting the 12 […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-26-10] The U.K. Space Agency has unveiled a one-year pilot program to design and launch miniature, cube-shaped satellites to test and research new space technologies, the agency announced […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-26-10]  Indian DTH operator DishTV suffered a net loss of $13.4 million during its 2010 second quarter and has replaced its CEO, the company announced in its latest […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-26-10] Ball Aerospace & Technologies has completed integration and performance testing of the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) that will fly aboard NASA‘s National Preparatory Project (NPP) weather satellite, […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-26-10] Inmarsat equipment manufacturer Cobham Satcom’s HGA-7001 high-gain antenna system has been certified for use on the Airbus long-range family of aircraft, Cobham announced July 23.     The […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-26-10] GPS 2F satellite manufacturer Boeing said a claim made by DLR, Germany’s national research center for aeronautics and space, that the U.S. Air Force GPS 2F satellite […]

[Satellite TODAY 07-23-10] Iridium Communications has signed two long-term agreements designating Boeing as Iridium’s sole operations and maintenance (O&M) provider for the current Iridium constellation and grants Boeing exclusive O&M […]