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Developing the program for the Offshore Communication show was a group effort, as for the first time in the 10 years of the show, an advisory board of end users was involved in creating the show’s content. Executives from companies such as Halliburton, Shell and ExxonMobil worked with communications experts such as CapRock Communications and...

The use of video in the energy industry has grown by leaps and bounds over the last decade. Video images from remotely operated vehicles working beneath the ocean’s surface help engineers assess construction and repair projects on the sea floor are a good example. The video images collected by the vehicles are uplinked from the...

Since the Gulf of Mexico oil spill occurred last Spring, DigitalGlobe CTO and Founder Walter Scott has seen an increased reliance on commercial satellite imagery for oil and gas companies to manage crisis events and prevent future catastrophes. DigitalGlobe’s one-year Crisis Event Service (CES) imagery agreement with the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), signed last...

Did you miss the live Webcast? Watch it now On Demand! The ILS Proton rocket successfully lifted off from Pad 24 at Baikonur Cosmodrome on October 15th at 12:53 am local time. This was the 6th ILS Proton launch of 2010 and the 5th SIRIUS XM Satellite launched on ILS Proton. After a 9 hour...

[Satellite News 09-14-10] Arianespace, which recently signed a production contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to produce the first operational Vega rocket launch, is looking to expand its order book with a wider variety of services, CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall told satellite industry players at the 2010 World Space Business Week conference.     The...

[Satellite News 08-03-10] The U.S. Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) released a report July 26 urging U.S. policymakers to extend assured access to space privileges enjoyed by government-owned spacecraf, to commercial satellites.     The report, “National Security and the Commercial Space Sector,” asserts that an overhaul of the U.S. Air Force’s relationship with...

The opening of CommunicAsia comes at what could be the beginning of a new era in the Asia-Pacific region. For many years, the satellite communications sector has viewed the region with a sense of frustration, as governments throughout the market placed national pride above economic sense, and the desire to operate their own satellites hurt...

[Satellite News 06-30-10] Arianespace CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall hopes that the successful launch earlier this week of the Arabsat-5A satellite, as well as South Korea’s COMS (Communication, Ocean and Meteorological satellite), will provide opportunities for growing its business in Asia and the Middle East.     After dealing with technical delays, the launch comes as a...

At SATELLITE 2010, I was privileged to moderate the launch service providers’ panel, bringing together the chief executives of Arianespace, International Launch Services (ILS), Sea Launch and China Great Wall Industry. I was struck anew by how the satellite industry crosses and challenges geopolitical fault lines. European-developed, -owned and -operated Arianespace sat next to the...

By Jason Bates The mood of the satellite communications sector was much different at the end of SATELLITE 2010 than it was just a year prior.     The speed of the economic recovery around the globe seems to alternate between slow and stalled, but there has been some improvement in the past year. Combine this...