Focus: Telecom

[Satellite Today 05-05-09] Artel, a developer of information technology and managed network services, hired Rosalind Kadasi as its CFO, the company announced May 4. In addition to CFO responsibilities, Kadasi […]

[Satellite Today 05-05-09] SpaceConnection President and CEO Michael Antonovich resigned, effective May 15, according to a statement released May 4.     Antonovich said he was leaving the company to join […]

[Satellite Today 05-04-09] Australian satellite company Codan has acquired Locus Microwave, a U.S.-based satellite microwave technology company, Codan announced May 1.     The deal, valued at more than $3 million, […]

[Satellite Today 05-04-09] EMS Technologies reported a net loss of $3 million in the 2009 first quarter, compared with net income of $4.2 million in the first quarter of 2008, […]

[Satellite Today 05-04-09] Air Austral, a commercial airline based in France, has installed Panasonic’s satellite-provided eX2 in-flight entertainment system on two Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, Panasonic announced May 1.    The […]

Only a few months before a defunct Russian Cosmos satellite smashed into an operational Iridium satellite, the Council of the European Union was debating a draft Code of Conduct for […]

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently issued more than $13 million in fines to companies for apparently failing to file annual Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) certifications. In the […]

As technological advances in space and on Earth lead to a new generation of handheld receivers, the prospect of mobile satellite services (MSS) breaking into the consumer mass market with […]

When historians look back at the late 20th century, the development and subsequent improvements of Internet protocol (IP) likely will be heralded as one of the most significant developments of […]

[Satellite Today 05-01-09] KVH Industries received a $1 million order from NovAtel for a self-contained navigation system that combines fiber optic gyro-based inertial measurement technology from KVH with GPS technology, […]

[Satellite Today 05-01-09] Communications and Power Industries Inc. (CPI) was awarded a three-year contract to supply solid-state power amplifiers to Swe-Dish Satellite Systems for use in the Swe-Dish IPT Suitcase […]

[Satellite Today 05-01-09] MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) won a multimillion-dollar contract from DigitalGlobe to provide a ground station solution to support the WorldView 1 and WorldView 2 satellites, MDA […]

[Satellite Today 05-01-09] Eutelsat Communications launched its Tooway consumer Internet access service in the United Kingdom, the company announced April 30.     Tooway, which aims to deliver speeds of 2 […]

In March, we took a break from financial issues affecting the satellite sector specifically to discuss general economic conditions and the Obama Administration’s fiscal stimulus package. We also examined those […]

The $7.2 billion included for broadband stimulus in President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is tantalizing to say the least, and the satellite industry seems to be a perfect […]

Khaled Derbas Managing Director, SmartSat The Middle East is a market in desperate need of more satellite capacity. It seems as fast as the satellites are going up, the capacity is being snapped up by

A time-honored inside joke gets played out each year the Friday afternoon we close up SATELLITE. Show director Jennifer Heinold tapes shut the last box of office supplies, eyeballs the […]

[Satellite Today 04-30-09] SES reported revenues of 423.9 million euros ($562 million), an increase of 8.4 percent over the same period in 2008, according to the company’s first quarter financial […]

[Satellite Today 04-29-09] In a push for U.S. broadband stimulus funding, WildBlue will demonstrate residential satellite connectivity of 18 megabits per second in Denver April 29, the company announced.     […]

[Satellite Today 04-29-09] The final paragraph in the April 28 story “Hughes and WildBlue Team Up To Fight for Broadband Stimulus Funding,” should read: Hughes has proposed to the NTIA […]

[Satellite Today 04-29-09] Vislink is partnering with Warsaw-based reseller Janusz Rupik PVP, which will distribute Vislink’s products in Poland, Vislink announced April 28.     Janusz Rupik will promote Vislink’s Link […]

[Satellite Today 04-28-09] Hughes Network Systems and WildBlue Communications likely wil submit a joint proposal to the U.S. National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) for grants to underwrite the cost […]

[Satellite Today 04-28-09] Harris Corp. is beginning a pilot program with McDonald’s that will launch a branded TV channel, delivered via satellite and powered by Harris digital signage solutions, into […]

[Satellite Today 04-28-09] An American Arbitration Association panel has ordered Sea Launch to pay Hughes Network Systems about $52 million in a dispute over whether Hughes had the legal right […]

[Satellite News 04-24-09] Satellite industry analysts praised the strength and potential of the broadband sector in new research reports. According to NSR senior analyst Patrick French and IDATE satellite analyst […]

[Satellite Today 04-24-09] Hughes Network Systems has signed a three-year satellite broadband deal in Brazil with the State of Santa Catarina Administration Department to provide broadband satellite service to the […]

[Satellite Today 04-24-09] SES Americom-New Skies has signed a new capacity deal with DRS Technologies, renewing an agreement for 160 megahertz of satellite capacity and connectivity to support the DRS […]

[Satellite Today 04-27-09] Dumrong Kasemset will step down as executive chairman of Thaicom in mid-May, the company announced April 23.     Kasemset has been the director of Thaicom’s satellite broadband […]

[Satellite Today 04-27-09] Uplogix, a provider of secure remote management  solutions, has partnered with Parallel, the provider of SatManage network operations center software, to combine the two products to strengthen […]

[Satellite Today 04-27-09] Inmarsat has unveiled a speed upgrade to its Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service, the company announced.     BGAN X-Stream service, which initially is available in the […]