Focus: Telecom

MDA has signed a $1.7 million contract with Sierra Nevada Corporation to develop an engineering concept solution to provide on-board communication signal processing capabilities.

SES announced today that the SES 6 satellite has successfully completed its extensive in-orbit testing and is now fully operational and in commercial service at the 40.5 degrees west orbital position.

Inmarsat has announced the successful demonstration of its L-TACTM service on-the-move in vehicles at speeds up to 70 mph.

ETL Systems has appointed Bill Pryle as its new international sales manager.

The FCC has granted ViaSat a blanket license radio station authorization for Ka-band aeronautical earth stations, amid sharp criticism from Row 44.

In an update to ABI Research’s M2M market data, cellular M2M connections are expected to reach more than 450 million by 2018.

Findings of a recent report by the U.S. Air Force reveal that satellites and the entire U.S. space enterprise system are currently at risk from increased space debris, extreme weather and cyber attacks.

[Satellite News 12-12-11] Australian satellite operator NewSat has added to its dramatic surge of Jabiru-1 pre-launch activity by signing a new 10-year, $67.2 million contract with an unnamed Middle Eastern...

Lybid TV, a new Ukrainian pay-TV platform, has initiated full commercial operations on the Eutelsat 36B satellite.

Geolink Satellite Services, a provider of a wide array of communications to the oil and gas industry, has won a contract to install a stabilized antenna at an offshore floating platform in Congo.