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Jacinto Palacios, the new CEO of Ondas Media, believes his experiences at Hispasat and other technology companies provides him with the tools to lead Ondas through the challenge of launching […]

Officers from the department were working with the Australian Banana Growers Council and the University of Queensland to produce a detailed snapshot of banana plantations in the wake of the […]

Gateway Communications will launch a new direct-to-home (DTH) platform in sub-Saharan Africa one of the biggest potential markets for DTH services anywhere in the world, with a target market of […]

Alcatel-Lucent, Thales Alcatel-Lucent completed the transfer of Alcatel’s shares in Alcatel Alenia Space and Telespazio to Thales. Thales and Finmeccanica then combined their space operations under an entity dubbed the […]

Bigelow Aerospace thinks the secret to turning the suborbital tourism marketing in a successful business is by selling "hang time" to "sovereign clients" — specifically astronaut-supporting countries harboring aspirations of […]

Intelsat officials met with Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the United States April 10 to discuss how to stop unauthorized use of an Intelsat satellite by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil […]

In a program designed to provide Internet protocol (IP) services to warfighters and other military personnel anytime and anywhere, the U.S. Department of Defense unveiled April 11 a public-private program […]

Envivio Inc. will supply a Mobile TV headend for a DVB-H pilot program operated by India’s Doordarshan, Envivio announced April 12. Doordarshan, the national television service of India, provides public […]

SISLink has secured a contract to supply Sky News and Five News with satellite services for the next five years, SISLink announced April 12. Included in the deal are 17 […]

Turner Broadcasting System Inc. (TBS) signed a multi-year agreement with SES Americom for two additional transponders aboard the AMC-3 and AMC-5 satellites to deliver CNN news gathering and special events […]

Transocean renewed an with CapRock Communications to provide broadband communications for Transocean’s drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, the company announced April 10. Under the terms of the renewal, […]

East View Cartographic (EVC) has added about 700,000 Ikonos satellite images to the online EVC Store, the company announced. EVC is an authorized reseller of Ikonos imagery via an agreement […]

Beginning April 16, SatelliteToday.com will feature the latest news from NAB 2007. Be sure to check out the live blog at www.SatelliteToday.com/blog for updates on all the happenings from Las […]

Raytheon Company will produce upgrade kits for its Secure Mobile Anti-jam Reliable Tactical Terminal, or SMART-T, for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps as well as Canada and the Netherlands, […]

Trimble has launched a multimedia layer of GPS-based adventure details for Google Earth, Trimble announced April 12. The premium GPS-based information incorporates information from the Trimble Outdoorscatalog of GPS-on-cellular applications […]

U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James Cartwright, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, described the Jan. 11 Chinese anti-satellite test as “a logical place to go” as China seeks to improve […]

Larry Boisvert, former president and CEO of Telesat Canada, has been appointed president of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), the Canadian government announced April 12. Boisvert joined Telesat in 1972 […]

Batelco, the main telco in Bahrain, entered into an agreement with Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) for capacity on the southern Ku-band beam of the ABS-1 satellite to provide VSAT services […]

The commercial space industry can provide significant space technology advanced if nurtured, Alex Tai, vice president of operations for Virgin Galactic, said. “Technical expertise is much better than what’s being […]

Raytheon Co.’s Space and Airborne Systems business named Travis Slocumb vice president for strategy and business development. Prior to joining Raytheon, Slocumb has held executive positions at Science Applications International […]

Wegener Corp. has promoted Ken Leffingwell to director of sales, the company announced April 12. Leffingwell has been in a management role in Wegener’s sales department for the pas two […]

DigitalGlobe and GeoEye will provide satellite imagery to support an international group that provides data free of charge to those affected by disasters, the U.S. Geological Survey announced April 12. […]

Intelsat General Corp. will manage an industry-government collaboration for the U.S. Department of Defense that will demonstrate the viability of conducting military communications through an Internet router in space, the […]

ViaSat Inc. received a contract to develop the satellite ground equipment for a planned satellite network upgrade for the U.S. Army’s Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below – Blue […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. will design and build the next-generation NASA Orion Abort Test Booster for NASA and the U.S. Air Force Space Development and Test Wing, the company announced April […]

Globalstar Inc. has launched a satellite airtime rate plan, which will provide customers in the United States with unlimited satellite voice minutes for calls to the United States, Canada and […]

Hughes Network Systems LLC has supplied a broadband satellite system to Galaxy Broadband Communications Inc., Hughes announced April 11. The system will enable Galaxy Broadband, an authorized Hughes service provider […]

SpaceDev Inc. finalized a memorandum of understanding with United Launch Alliance to pursue launching the SpaceDev Dream Chaser aboard an Atlas 5 rocket, SpaceDev announced April 10. The vehicle is […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Office of Space Commercialization (OSC) released a strategic plan designed to improve responsiveness and efficiency in space commerce. The plan describes how OSC […]

Eumetsat, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, confirmed that Meteosat-9 is now the prime satellite operating at 0°, replacing Meteosat-8. Meteosat-9 was placed into orbit in December […]