Focus: Telecom

[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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Insider 01-11-11] Morgan Stanley analysts expect the satellite industry’s strong 2010 overall performance to continue in 2011, as satellite stocks rose by an average of 20 percent in […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 01-11-11] RaySat and Funtoro have unveiled a global cooperation effort to offer turnkey solutions to distributors, integrators, bus operators and manufacturers for live, personalized in-vehicle satellite entertainment […]

[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 […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-11-11] Iridium Communications has certified its partners’ Iridium 9602 Short Burst Data (SBD) transceiver-based devices to operate on its mobile voice and data network for emerging markets, the […]

[Satellite News 01-11-11] Over the past two months, Hughes Network Systems has unveiled a slew of new enterprise and government service offerings, including technology service to the U.S. government through […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 01-10-11] The number of worldwide broadband subscriptions now exceeds 500 million, according to a market report prepared by Point Topic and announced by the Broadband Forum Jan. […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-07-11] Streambox has enhanced the capability of its hybrid HD/SD software encoder to include HD video transportation using a single cellular modem on Verizon’s 4G LTE mobile broadband […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-07-11] The Lubbock County Municipal Government in Texas selected Spacenet’s satellite communications services and equipment to support critical communications across the state, the Gilat subsidiary announced Jan. 4. […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 01-07-11] Eutelsat has secured another capacity deal with an up and coming operator in Central and Eastern Europe, the operator, announced Jan. 6.     Eutelsat signed a […]