Focus: North America
June 15, 2018
In the wake of the hurricanes in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands last year, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is making available hundreds of millions of dollars in universal service funding to help restore and expand voice and broadband communications over the next decade to millions of residents. For this, the FCC should…
June 15, 2018
Geospatial analytics provider Orbital Insight has signed an exclusive agreement to bundle its products with the Emergency Flood Mapping Services of e-Geos for the U.S. government. This partnership provides government customers with a timely understanding of both full flood extent, extracted from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite data, and the magnitude of the impact, based…
June 15, 2018
Firefly Aerospace has appointed Leslie Kovacs as vice president of business development. Kovacs has more than 30 years of space launch industry experience, most recently at United Launch Alliance (ULA) as director of executive branch affairs, where he helped shape federal policy and acquisition approaches for the $57 billion Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program. Kovacs will be based…
June 14, 2018
Viasat has signed telecommunications distributor TBI as its latest master agent partner to offer Viasat's business internet services. TBI has a network of 2,500 sales agents that include sales partners, value-added resellers, managed service providers and consultants. As a Viasat master agent, TBI's network will be able to offer Viasat high-speed satellite internet as an option…