Focus: Telecom

[Satellite TODAY Insider 01-24-11] Avanti Communications won two contracts for Hylas-1 satellite capacity for further developing and demonstrating technology to deliver video to the edge of terrestrial networks, the company […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-24-11] Intorel launched Visionic 5, a new edition of its Visionic Professional, to the satellite broadband, broadcasting and telecoms market, the company announced Jan 21.     Visionic 5 […]

[Satellite News 01-24-11] Microsat Systems Canada’s (MSCI’s) CommStellation, a 78-satellite constellation to target the North American backhaul market, surprised satellite industry analysts, as the value of its potential growth and […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-21-11] Satellite Broadband Ireland (SBI) signed a three-year, 5 million euro ($6.7 million) commercial utility contract agreement with Eutelsat to sell Tooway broadband services, SBI announced Jan. 20. […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-21-11] SatCom Group Holdings has changed its name to One Horizon Group to focus on its Horizon communications platform, the company announced Jan. 20.     One Horizon Group […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-21-11] Norsat appointed Arthur Chin CFO, replacing Trevor Greene, effective at the beginning of February, the Canadian satellite company announced Jan. 20.     Norsat said that Greene, named […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-20-11] Canadian satellite manufacturer Microsat Systems Canada Inc. (MSCI) plans to launch a network of 78 small, low-flying satellites designed to help relieve network congestion caused by smartphones, […]

[Satellite News 01-20-11] Microsat Systems Canada (MSCI) hopes its plans to build and launch CommStellation, a constellation of 78 low-Earth orbit microsatellites, will propel the company to the forefront of […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 01-19-11] Hughes Network Systems broke its own broadband satellite terminal shipment record last year, reporting 327,000 units delivered and bringing its cumulative number shipped worldwide to more […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 01-18-11] Eutelsat continued its fast-paced start to 2011, signing a launch contract with Arianespace and a capacity deal with Eastern European telco T-Hrvatski Telekom (T-HT) in Croatia, […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-18-11] Independent satellite company NewSat signed $2.8 million in new contract wins, including a $2 million contract with Nixon Communications to provide services to the natural gas pipeline […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-18-11] Iridium Communications signed agreements with 17 of its service partners to participate in the company’s Network Quality Guarantee program, which promises complete network availability for customers purchasing […]

[Satellite News 01-18-11] Despite meeting its targets in the space business in 2010, satellite manufacturer Astrium found it difficult to build off of a strong year in 2009 and saw […]

[Satellite News 01-18-11] ViviSat, a new, U.S.-based satellite life extension joint venture between U.S. Space and ATK, intends to provide geosynchronous satellite operators with in-orbit mission extension and protection services […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-17-11] East View Cartographic entered into an agreement with geospatial imagery provider RapidEye to join its distribution team in the United States, RapidEye announced Jan. 14.     RapidEye […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-17-11] Telespazio has acquired the space activities of Finmeccanica subsidiares Vega and Elsag Datamat, Telespazio announced Jan. 14.     Telespazio said the acquisition is more of a restructuring […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-17-10] A $3 million restructuring charge cut into Com Dev profits in the 2010 fourth quarter, causing the Canadian satellite company to post $1.9 million in losses compared […]

[Satellite News 01-14-11] Damage sustained to the ViaSat-1 satellite at its manufacturing facility has forced ViaSat to pushed back its scheduled launch on an ILS Proton rocket from spring to […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 01-14-11] U.S. Space, a space solutions provider for government and commercial markets, has teamed up with ATK to create ViviSat, a new satellite life extension joint venture, […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-14-11] Intelsat has reestablished full functionality and control over Galaxy 15, which stopped responding to ground controllers when its telemetry and commanding subsystems suffered an anomaly in April, […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-14-11] Integral Systems has hired New York-based advisory firm Stone Key Partners as a financial consultant to help it explore the possible sale of the company or making […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-14-11] Eutelsat Communications has positioned the Ka-Sat satellite at its definitive location at 9 degrees East and will begin a series of in-orbit tests as it prepares to […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 01-13-11] Intelsat S.A. has borrowed $3.75 billion from a consortium of banks and securities in an effort to reorganize its assets and simplify operations, the operator announced […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-13-11] Astrium posted preliminary overall revenues of 5 billion euros ($6.47 billion) in 2010, a 4 percent increase compared to 2009, the company announced Jan. 12.     Astrium […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-13-11] Space Adventures, a commercial manned space travel company, finalized an agreement with the Russian Federal Space Agency and Rocket Space Corp. Energia (RSC Energia) to sell three […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-13-11] Russia’s Tomsk Polytechnical University (TPU) has selected Hughes’ HX System to provide forest fire monitoring services for the Russian Federal Forestry Agency, Hughes announced Jan. 12.     […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 01-12-11] Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems selected Northrop Grumman’s scalable Space Inertial Reference Unit (SIRU) as its satellite platforms’ inertial reference unit, Northrop Grumman announced Jan. 11. […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-12-11] Hughes Network Systems has launched its managed Voice-over-IP (VoIP) solution for the distributed enterprise market, the company announced Jan. 11. The service aims to eliminate the need […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-12-11] Thrane & Thrane’s Aviator 200 SwiftBroadband solution received a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for the system’s installation aboard Cessna 500, 550, S550, 552, 560 and 560XL aircraft, […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-11-11] Hughes Network Systems has unveiled its Virtualized Field Office Server offering for the government market, the company announced Jan. 10.     The Hughes offering aims to reduce […]