Connectivity

Envivio Inc. will supply a Mobile TV headend for a DVB-H pilot program operated by India’s Doordarshan, Envivio announced April 12. Doordarshan, the national television service of India, provides public...

SISLink has secured a contract to supply Sky News and Five News with satellite services for the next five years, SISLink announced April 12. Included in the deal are 17...

Turner Broadcasting System Inc. (TBS) signed a multi-year agreement with SES Americom for two additional transponders aboard the AMC-3 and AMC-5 satellites to deliver CNN news gathering and special events...

Transocean renewed an with CapRock Communications to provide broadband communications for Transocean’s drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, the company announced April 10. Under the terms of the renewal,...

East View Cartographic (EVC) has added about 700,000 Ikonos satellite images to the online EVC Store, the company announced. EVC is an authorized reseller of Ikonos imagery via an agreement...

Trimble has launched a multimedia layer of GPS-based adventure details for Google Earth, Trimble announced April 12. The premium GPS-based information incorporates information from the Trimble Outdoorscatalog of GPS-on-cellular applications...

Batelco, the main telco in Bahrain, entered into an agreement with Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) for capacity on the southern Ku-band beam of the ABS-1 satellite to provide VSAT services...

The commercial space industry can provide significant space technology advanced if nurtured, Alex Tai, vice president of operations for Virgin Galactic, said. “Technical expertise is much better than what’s being...

Raytheon Co.’s Space and Airborne Systems business named Travis Slocumb vice president for strategy and business development. Prior to joining Raytheon, Slocumb has held executive positions at Science Applications International...

Eumetsat, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, confirmed that Meteosat-9 is now the prime satellite operating at 0°, replacing Meteosat-8. Meteosat-9 was placed into orbit in December...