Focus: Telecom

The Gazprom-owned Yamal-402 satellite eventually reached orbit early Tuesday after its course was corrected by space officials.

Telecommunications company Vivacom has increased the download speeds and doubled the monthly bandwidth allowance for its satellite-based internet services.

[Satellite TODAY Insider 12-11-12] Australian satellite communications company NewSat has selected a new Evolution universal satellite hub from technology developer iDirect to enhance its network infrastructure, along with an upgrade...

Gilat Satellite Networks’ Wavestream Ku-band Matchbox Mini Block Upconverter is available immediately

[Satellite News 12-10-12] After two years of frustrating decline, Comtech’s MTS/BFT business declined 61 percent to $10 million in the 2013 first quarter and now consists primarily of support services...

Tags: Satellite Launch, VSAT, Azerbaijan, Arianespace, Orbital Sciences Corp. Publication: Trend.az Publication Date: 12/03/2012 Artist’s impression of Azerspace -1. Image credit: Orbital Sciences Corp. Azerbaijan has moved a step losing to having its own...

This year marks fifty years since the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licensed its first satellite in 1962. Satellites, and satellite rules, have greatly evolved since then. The satellite industry...

In my last column, I discussed how the cost of providing satellite broadband had fallen to the point where it was thinkable for Dish Network to deploy it broadly to...

With a series of new developments in electric-propulsion, high-throughput and Ka-band satellites as well as industry consolidation, 2012 has been quite a year in the satellite industry. There have been...

The role of the teleport operator in the satellite eco-system could be changing as satellite operators themselves look to offer services that have traditionally been the preserve of these operators....