E-letter: News Feed

[Satellite Today 11-06-08] Crawford Communications has expanded its broadcast recording and monitoring capabilities with the addition of a 12-channel Volicon Observer video monitoring and logging solution, the company announced Nov. […]

[Satellite Today 11-06-08] The next ten years will rival the heydays of the late 1990s for the MSS industry with the launch of up to 160 MSS satellites, writes NSR […]

[Satellite Today 11-06-08] Thaicom has opened its eleventh Ipstar gateway in the Philippines, the company said Nov. 6.     During the opening ceremony, which took place at The Peninsula Hotel […]

[Satellite News 11-06-08] Lucrative contract offers from Sirius XM Satellite Radio to its on-air content are key drivers of the company’s reported massive debt and may have to be renegotiated […]

[Satellite News 11-06-08] A number of key figures from the U.K. Ministry of Defense emphasized the importance of satellite communications in next generation warfare at the Global MilSatCom conference.     […]

[Satellite Today 11-06-08] Sirius XM said it is in discussions with several financial institutions regarding a financing to replace its 2.5 percent convertible notes due 2009, according to a statement […]

[Satellite Today 11-06-08] SES Astra’s Astra 1M satellite has successfully been launched, the company said Nov. 6.     The satellite, which will be located at SES Astra’s prime orbital position […]

[Satellite Today 11-06-08] Astrium’s Skynet 5 satellite design and manufacturing team has won two specialist awards from The Royal Aeronautical Society, Astrium announced Nov. 5.     One of the awards […]

[Satellite Today 11-06-08] Norsat International Inc. saw a 29 percent increase in revenue at $4.9 million from $3.8 million in 2007 in its third quarter 2008 financial report released Nov. […]

[Satellite Today 11-06-08] ViaSat said it has set a record in new contract awards with a combined net value of $255.5 million, pushing its sales backlog above $523 million, the […]

[Satellite Today 11-06-08] DigitalGlobe has signed an agreement with DeCarta, a supplier of software and services for the location-based services (LBS) industry, under which DigitalGlobe will provide DeCarta’s geospatial platform […]

[Satellite Today 11-06-08] Marine electronics manufacturers Furuno Electric Co. and Japan Radio Co. (JRC) have become 10 percent shareholders in JSAT Mobile Communications Inc., parent company Stratos announced Nov. 6. […]

[Satellite Today 11-06-08] CCTV, China’s largest broadcaster, has chosen GlobeCast for its distribution to the European market of its French language channel, CCTV-F, GlobeCast announced Nov. 6.     GlobeCast receives […]

[Satellite Today 11-06-08] DirecTV saw its total revenues increase 15 percent to nearly $5 billion in its third quarter 2008 financial report released Nov. 6. The company’s Latin America revenues […]

[Satellite Today 11-05-08] Pace is revising down its 2009 expectations for profitability, the company said Nov. 5.     The company, which is a key set-top box supplier of satellite pay-TV […]

[Satellite Today 11-05-08] Thuraya is launching a new video streaming service, the company said Nov. 5. It is partnering with Quicklink to facilitate the transmission and delivery of extremely low […]

[Satellite Today 11-05-08] Globecomm Systems Inc. has been awarded a contract from an unnamed multi-national organization for satellite ground terminals, valued at approximately $27 million, Globecomm announced Nov. 5.     […]

[Satellite Today 11-05-08] Bharti Airtel, a telecom services provider based in India, has launched Airtel digital TV based on a complete end-to-end system from technology partner, NDS, to secure, enable […]

[Satellite Today 11-05-08] MTV Networks International (MTVNI) has chosen GlobeCast for the launch of its first international high definition service dedicated to music and kids, MTVNHD, GlobeCast announced Nov. 4. […]

[Satellite Today 11-05-08] Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has filed lawsuits against Mivtach Shamir Holdings, LR Group, Gores Capital Partners, and DGB Investments, accusing the companies of failing to pay a […]

[Satellite Today 11-05-08] The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued an order and authorization giving Globalstar authority to offer Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) services in the United States, Globalstar […]

[Satellite News 11-05-08] Gilat Satellite Networks has filed lawsuits against Mivtach Shamir Holdings, LR Group, Gores Capital Partners, and DGB Investments Inc., accusing the companies of failing to pay a […]

[Satellite Today 11-04-08] Stratos Global Corp. introduced its new Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) Scada service to provide high-performance connectivity for remote, unmanned Scada applications, Stratos announced Nov. 4.     […]

[Satellite Today 11-04-08] Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) has introduced DragonLab, a reusable spacecraft capable of hosting pressurized and unpressurized payloads to and from space.     In a Nov. 4 […]

[Satellite Today 11-04-08] NASA has selected Harris Corp.’s OS/Comet telemetry, tracking, and command software for its constellation launch control system, Harris announced Nov. 4.     OS/Comet is a commercial off-the-shelf […]

[Satellite Today 11-04-08] Eutelsat Communications saw sustained revenue growth in its first quarter 2009 financial report of 7 percent, performance of video applications up 5.4 percent, a 16.4 percent increase […]

[Satellite Today 11-04-08] Bezeq Israel Telecom has sold its satellite communications operations to RRsat Global Communications Network, Bezeq announced Nov. 4. Bezeq said will post a capital gain of 49 […]

[Satellite Today 11-04-08] Thales Alenia Space España has been chosen to supply X-band communication subsystems and S-band telemetry, tracking, and command transponders for the first three Sentinel observation satellites in […]

[Satellite Today 11-04-08] United Space Alliance, a space operations provider, has been awarded a three-year, $206.5 million contract from NASA, United Space Alliance announced Nov. 4.     The provider said […]

[Satellite News 11-04-08] Sirius XM Satellite Radio has been sued by Save Sirius, a group formed by 500 shareholders of the formerly independent Sirius Satellite Radio.     The group charges […]