E-letter: News Feed

[Satellite Today 02-27-09] Raytheon Systems Ltd., a subsidiary of Raytheon Co. received a $1.4 million contract from the U.S. Air Force for initial production of the GPS Advanced Digital Antenna […]

[Satellite Today 02-27-09] Despite a challenging global economy, Iridium posted strong financial results in 2008, driven by growth in all three of its key markets, the company announced Feb. 26. […]

[Satellite Today 02-27-09] Hughes Communications revenues improved 9 percent for 2008, surpassing the $1 billion mark for the year for the first time in the company’s history, Hughes announced Feb. […]

[Satellite News 02-26-09] Sea Launch has begun preparations for the launch of the Telstar 11N communications satellite Feb. 26 from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, the company announced Feb. […]

[Satellite News 02-26-09] DigitalGlobe‘s WorldView 2 remote sensing instrument, provided by ITT Corp., has been integrated by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. into the WorldView 2 spacecraft, DigitalGlobe announced Feb. […]

[Satellite News 02-26-09] Boeing Co. has named  three new executives to key roles within its Washington, D.C.,  government operations office, the company announced Feb. 25.     David Morrison, formerly a […]

[Satellite News 02-26-09] Xiplink has named Warren Brown senior vice president of marketing, the company announced     Brown will oversee XipLink’s Sales and Marketing headquarters site in Reston, Virginia as […]

[Satellite News 02-26-09] Inmarsat has gone live with its Inmarsat-4 F1 satellite, completing a project to relocate its broadband satellites to provide global coverage, the company announced Feb. 24.     […]

[Satellite News 02-26-09] Orbital Sciences’ investigation into the cause of a Feb. 24 Taurus rocket failure that destroyed NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) could take months, Orbital spokesman Barry Beneski […]

[Satellite News 02-26-09] Eutelsat doubled the broadcast capacity available at the 9 degrees East orbital position, the company said Feb. 24.     The operator redeployed its Eurobird 9A satellite (formerly […]

[Satellite News 02-26-09] Newtec signed a deal with Horizon Satellite Services of the United Arab Emirates to provide a FlexACM solution to deliver an increased IP throughput, Newtec announced Feb. […]

[Satellite News 02-26-09] Orbital Sciences is in the initial stages of an investigation, in coordination with NASA, to determine the cause of Taurus launch failure that destroyed the agency’s Orbiting […]

[Satellite Today 02-25-09] Intelsat selected NetCracker Technology software and services to improve the automation of Intelsat’s service delivery processes, the satellite operator announced Feb. 24.     The contract expands NetCracker’s […]

[Satellite Today 02-25-09] International Launch Services (ILS) and Asia Satellite Telecommunications (AsiaSat) signed a contract for the launch of the AsiaSat 5 satellite on an ILS Proton rocket in the […]

[Satellite News 02-25-09] AsiaSat has backed out of a launch contract with Sea Launch,  moving its AsiaSat-5 satellite because Sea Launch could not provide the customer with a desirable timeframe, […]

[Satellite Today 02-25-09] Australian telco Optus has launched the Thuraya GSM/satellite dual mode handset in Australia, the company announced Feb. 24.     The handset allows customers to use the same […]

[Satellite Today 02-25-09] Nagravision won a contract to provide a conditional access (CA) system for Tivu Sat, a new digital satellite platform in Italy, Nagravision announced Feb. 23.     Tivu […]

[Satellite Today 02-25-09] Integral Systems has purchased the intellectual property rights and other assets relating to the SatID product line from U.K.-based Qinetiq Group, Integral announced Feb. 24.     The […]

[Satellite Today 02-25-09] The launch of a Taurus XL rocket carrying NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) satellite failed Feb. 24 when the rocket’s payload fairing failed to separate properly, satellite […]

[Satellite Today 02-25-09] Elbit Systems has completed the acquisition of Shiron Satellite from Polar Communications for $16 million, Elbit announced Feb. 24.     Polar Communications, which owned 47.4 percent of […]

[Satellite Today 02-24-09] Stratos Global Corp. expanded its Asia-Pacific customer-support infrastructure with the opening of a Hong Kong customer support center, the company announced Feb. 23. The center offers local-language […]

[Satellite Today 02-24-09] Skycasters, a broadband satellite Internet solutions provider, is making a push to capitalize on President Obama’s broadband stimulus bill included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, […]

[Satellite Today 02-24-09] Al Yah Satellite Communications (Yahsat) is launching YahSecure, a secure satellite communications service to military, government agencies and mission-critical commercial applications, the company announced Feb. 22.     […]

[Satellite Today 02-24-09] Outerlink Corp., a satellite-based mobile asset management solutions provider, has teamed with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide satellite-tracking data from all commercial satellite […]

[Satellite Today 02-24-09] The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has certified imagery from the GeoEye-1 as meeting NGA’s requirements for quality, accuracy and resolution, GeoEye announced Feb. 22.     The […]

[Satellite Today 02-24-09] Thuraya has appointed Fonenet as a new distributor for its ThurayaIP service, Thuraya announced Feb. 22.     Fonenet, a telecom solution provider based in the United Kingdom, […]

[Satellite Today 02-24-09] The government of Abu Dhabi has agreed to sign a $20 million contract with Israel-based ImageSat for access to images taken by the Eros-B satellite, ImageSat announced […]

[Satellite News 02-24-09] Satellite pay-TV operator NTV-Plus is at the forefront of the market in Russia. The operator already has attracted about 600,000 subscribers, and Dimitry Samokhin, director general of […]

[Satellite News 02-24-09] The broadband stimulus bill included in President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is having a variety of effects on several sectors of the commercial satellite industry […]

[Satellite Today 02-23-09] Two UCLA geography professors say their work with satellite tracking software might help the United States get closer to capturing Osama Bin Laden, according to a Feb. […]