Focus: Telecom

[Satellite TODAY 03-08-11] Retired NASA Astronaut Garrett Reisman has joined SpaceX as senior engineer of astronaut safety and mission assurance, the company announced March 7.     Reisman will join another […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-08-11] Norsat International‘s board appointed Fabio Doninelli chairman and member of Norsat’s audit committee, the Canadian satellite company announced March 7.     Doninelli previously served as a strategy […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-07-11] Hughes Communications posted a sharp increase in 2010 fourth-quarter net income at $16.9 million, compared with $2.4 million in 2009, driven by a 40 percent net […]

[Satellite News 03-07-11] Satellite telecommunications service provider SpeedCast has seen solid growth in recent years and expects this trend to continue in 2011 as it begins an initiative to expand […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-04-11] SES Astra’s latest Astra2Connect subdistribution service launch in Germany, unveiled March 2, will lower the operator’s hardware and installation costs and allow the company to provide […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-04-11] ViaSat is expanding its Ku-band international mobility coverage to include Ka-band and support the growth of its in-flight Yonder mobile broadband network service, the company announced March […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-04-11] Harris Corp. won a contract from Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems to build Ka-band antennas for the three-satellite Inmarsat-5 constellation, which will provide the backbone for Inmarsat’s […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-04-11] Canadian operator Telesat saw its full-year consolidated revenues increase 4 percent from 2009 to $821 million in 2010 but reported income of $228 million in 2010, compared […]

[Satellite News 03-04-11] SES World Skies recently commissioned the SES 8 satellite to bring more capacity to DTH markets in Asia as part of its plan to expand its presence […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-03-11] Inmarsat has selected Cobham as its maritime satellite terminal launch partner to support Inmarsat’s upcoming Global Xpress service, the mobile operator announced March 2.     Inmarsat […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-03-11] SES Astra has launched an Astra2Connect-powered broadband sub-distribution service based in Germany to provide connectivity to European customers in areas without terrestrial broadband, the operator announced March […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-03-11] ViaSat has rolled out its ECC66100-series Forward-Error Correction (FEC) core off-the-shelf product for optical transport, ViaSat announced March 2.     The technology was designed to provide cost […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-02-11] High-throughput satellites (HTS) and the increased presence of oil and gas operations in remote environments will help the satellite enterprise communications industry grow sector-wide revenues from […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-02-11] SES Astra has completed the sale of its stake in German satellite equipment provider and ground system integrator ND SatCom to Astrium, SES announced March 1.     […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-02-11] Thales Alenia Space established a separately owned German subsidiary, Thales Alenia Space Deutschland GmbH, in Stuttgart, the manufacturer announced March 1.     Thales said the subsidiary aims […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-02-11] MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) reported a 2010 fourth-quarter loss of $55.6 million, compared with income of $31.2 million in the same period a year ago, due […]

By nature, a CTO must be forward looking, concerned with emerging technological developments that can have an impact on business models, provide gains in efficiency, and improve profits. Their vision […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-01-11] Transcendent Global Networks, a satellite telecommunication services provider to teleport operators, has added a professional services division to its business, the company announced Feb. 28.      Transcendent’s […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-01-11] Globecomm Systems has received authorized service provider and video partner status from Cisco Systems after having fulfilled the training requirements and program prerequisites to sell, deploy and […]

[Satellite News 03-01-11] Harbinger Capital Director Philip Falcone is restructuring the hedge fund’s investment in satellite 4G-LTE operator LightSquared to “facilitate direct investments by existing and prospective investors in the […]

In this issue, we honor Petra Mateos, chairwoman of Spanish satellite operator Hispasat, as the 2010 Satellite Executive of the Year. Mateos earned this honor by guiding the regional FSS […]

The world of satellite broadband is on the cusp of an evolution to Ka-band global connectivity. Over the next year, ViaSat is looking to lead the North American satellite broadband […]

Resolution 80 again will be considered at the next World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12), as it has since 1997. That resolution calls for recommendations on carrying out the international rules on […]

Government eavesdropping on private communications is as old as government itself. Telecommunications providers are but an instrument for government wiretapping. As blunt as this may sound and regardless of whether […]

To read an extended version of this interview with Petra Mateos, please click here. When appointed chairwoman of Hispasat in 2004, Petra Mateos felt the company needed to have more […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-01-11] LightSquared has formed a working group with the U.S. Global Positioning System Industry Council (USGIC) to study potential interference problems the 4G LTE terrestrial-satellite network might […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-01-11] Maritime satellite communications specialist Marlink has delivered and installed its Sealink VSAT solution on Atlantic Oilfield Services’ oil & gas support unit KS Titan 2, Marlink announced […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-01-11] Satellite communications, tracking and telemetry company Orbit Communications, named Yosi Albagli Executive Vice President and President of its satellite communications business unit, the company announced Feb. 28. […]

[Satellite News 02-28-11] TAM Airlines, which operates direct flights to 45 cities in Brazil and 18 cities in South America, the United States and Europe, has beefed up its connectivity […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-28-11] Oil and gas company R&M Energy Systems selected Stratos to deploy a global SCADA network based on Inmarsat‘s BGAN mobile broadband satellite service,Stratos announced Feb. 25.     […]