Steve Schuster

SES announced that the SES 6 satellite roared into space aboard an ILS Proton Breeze M launch vehicle June 3 at 5:38 p.m. EDT. After a 15-hour, 31-minute mission, the Breeze M upper stage of the Proton rocket successfully released the SES-6 satellite directly into geostationary transfer orbit.

Intelsat has a bright economic future despite a recent report that points to modest near-term growth prospects and elevated government demand risk.

Geolink Satellite Services, part of CETel Group, has signed a capacity renewal agreement with Telesat to provide satellite connectivity across Africa and Europe.

Competition has intensified this past week with offers reaching the $1 billion mark for DIRECTV, Time Warner Cable or Yahoo to purchase Hulu

Hughes Network Systems has announced the availability of a new emergency services package as the 2013 hurricane season begins. Services include satellite network solutions for emergency preparedness, restoral, and post-event response

MDA Information Systems (MDA-IS) has received research funds from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a scalable, extensible, open source platform for data processing, archiving and dissemination.

Global mobile data traffic expanded to 69 percent in 2012 and is anticipated to grow to 72 percent in 2013 to reach 23,000 Petabytes.

Sea Launch recently announced that the failure review oversight board (FROB) issued its final summary report of findings on May 31, following its review of the investigation into the cause of the January 31, 2013 failed launch attempt of the Intelsat 27 satellite.

Space-based automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) is a logical extrapolation of terrestrial antenna-based ADS-B and may be the only way to use this surveillance technology in oceanic, mountainous, or extremely remote areas.

Jon Kirchner, president and chief operating officer of GeoOptics, a satellite-based environmental data services company, addressed the U.S. Congress on how to change the way the government acquires essential data for severe and day-to-day weather forecasting.

Romania's digital broadcasting landscape has expanded with the recent launch of Freesat, a new TV platform available from the EUTELSAT 16A satellite operated by Eutelsat Communications.

ITT Exelis, a global aerospace, defense, information and technical services company, will make its Jagwire solution for the management and dissemination of tactical imagery and video available on a mobile platform.

DISH has updated its recently released set-top application, which now delivers on-screen social content relevant to the show or channel a viewer is watching.

Within five years, North America is expected to lose its status as the number one region for in-flight entertainment (IFE) content to the rapidly expanding Asia-Pacific region.

International Launch Services (ILS) recently announced that communications satellite SES-6 will be launched on June 3, 2013 at 5:18 p.m. EDT from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.

International Datacasting Corporation (IDC) has announced that its new President and CEO Doug Lowther has been appointed to the corporation’s board of directors.

Monitoring global air traffic is not an easy task, but in the wake of SES’s recent launch of the first space-based automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B) system, this could soon change.

TrustComm, a provider of secure COMSATCOM solutions to government agencies, has announced significant enhancements to its satellite emergency operations network (SEON) solution for emergency responders. The enhancements include new and flexible purchase options, and expanded network configurations.

Thuraya Telecommunications has become the newest member of the Space Data Association (SDA), a non-profit association that brings together international satellite operators to share critical data and best practices vital to the safety and integrity of the space environment and the radio frequency (RF) spectrum.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), a global communications and information company, announced it has signed a CA$10.8 million ($10.4 million) contract with Canada’s Department of National Defense (DND)

SAVIS Tegnologia has selected Advantech Wireless to provide a geographically redundant military satellite communication network system for SISFRON, the largest border security program in Latin America.

SES announced it has increased its household reach in the Benelux countries in 2012 to more than 1.2 million homes. With a 19 percent increase compared to the previous year, Belgium topped the Benelux growth in Astra satellite homes.

NASA has been discussing potential cooperation with Europe for the development of space technologies that will enable future missions.

Airlines are set to spend $900 million on in-flight entertainment (IFE) content by 2018, up from $660 million in 2012, according to a newly released report from IMS Research.

By 2017, pay-TV households across the globe are expected to reach over one billion — a sharp increase over the 850 million projected before the end of 2013, said Michelle Abraham

Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from the fifth Wideband Global SATCOM satellite (WGS-5) it is delivering to the U.S. Air Force.

High Throughput Satellites have been making headlines in the mainstream media recently and are positioned to be a real “game changer” serving the military and end users, said David Hartshorn, secretary general of GVF during a HTS roundtable discussion in Washington, D.C.

Hermes Datacommunications and MEASAT Satellite have reached an agreement for the provision of VSAT satellite communication services across Malaysia’s offshore oilfields via the MEASAT-3 satellite.

Intelsat has announced that its subsidiary, Intelsat Jackson Holdings has received the requisite consent to amend terms of the indenture governing its 8.5 percent senior notes due in 2019, in connection with its previously announced consent solicitation.

Thuraya Telecommunications has unveiled a new Maritime Broadband (MBB) service enabling ship owners and managers to use maritime broadband communications.