Featured Stories

Echostar Communications Corp. announced earlier this week it added NFL Network as part of the America’s Top 120 for its Dish Network direct-to-home satellite television service. NFL Network provides around-the-clock...

Boeing announced Sept. 13 that Howard Chambers was named vice president and general manager of Space And Intelligence Systems (S&IS), an operating division of Integrated Defense Systems. Chambers is responsible...

SES Americom announced Sept. 8 that its Washington International Teleport (WIT) earth station and HD-Prime neighborhood aboard the AMC-10 and AMC-11 satellites have been selected to monitor and distribute all...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service awarded Raytheon Co. a contract to provide operations and maintenance for the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System (AWIPS), a nationwide operational...

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. announced earlier this week it was selected by Tatanet India to provide two Skyedge hubs and “thousands” of Skyedge Internet protocol VSAT terminals. The Skyedge systems...

EMS Satellite Networks, a division of EMS Technologies Inc., unveiled Sept. 8 the SatNet Mini, the company’s new mini hub. The SatNet Mini hub is designed to provide full DVB-RCS...

Telesat Canada‘s Anik F1R satellite was placed into orbit Sept. 9 by a Russian Proton Breeze M launch vehicle. The Proton lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 3:53 a.m....

GlobeCast WorldTV, an international direct-to-home satellite television provider, is growing the channel line-up of its platform with new channels targeting South Asian residents in the United States with the addition...

The announced combination of Intelsat and Panamsat will create a large, financially stable Fixed Satellite Services provider with a combined fleet of 53 satellites but could be bad news for...

Nera Satcom said earlier this week it received the Satlabs Certificate of Compliance, verifying that Nera’s broadband satellite terminals comply with the DVB-RCS standard and can interoperate with other DVB-RCS-based...