Author: Jeffrey Hill

[Satellite News 12-07-10] Mobile broadband and related industries are expected to generate 1.8 percent of South Africa’s total GDP and create as many as 28,000 jobs by 2015, according to...

[Satellite TODAY 12-07-10] Telespazio has selected Arianespace to launch the Sicral 2 satellite into geostationary orbit on an Ariane 5 launched from the Guiana Space Center in November 2013, Arianespace...

[Satellite TODAY 12-07-10] Russia’s Glonass navigation system will remain incomplete after three of its satellites fell into the Pacific Ocean shortly after take-off Dec. 5 when a Proton-M rocket carrying...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 12-06-10] The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled it will not reclassify broadband from “Information Service” to “Telecommunications Service,” under the U.S. Communications Act of 1934, the...

[Satellite TODAY 12-06-10] Eutelsat has ordered a satellite from Thales Alenia Space to replace the W3B spacecraft, which was lost in October due to a propulsion leak, the operator announced...

[Satellite TODAY 12-06-10] DirecTV expects to generate roughly $30 billion in annual sales and serve 30 million customers by 2013, DirecTV CEO Michael White said in a statement issued to...

[Satellite TODAY 12-06-10] Ascent Media Corp.’s content distribution business will be sold to services operator Encompass Digital Media for about $113 million under a purchase agreement signed by the companies...

[Satellite TODAY 12-06-10] The Sirius XM-5 satellite is ready for service, Sirius XM Radio announced Dec. 3.     The operator said that it completed all orbit-raising, deployments and in-orbit tests...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 12-03-10] Astrium and Thales Alenia Space will build two high-resolution reconnaissance satellites for the French Defense Ministry under a $1.1 billion contract issued to the manufacturers Nov....

[Satellite TODAY 12-03-10] Camgian Microsystems selected machine-to-machine (M2M) specialist Orbcomm to provide a global communications platform for Camgian’s industrial asset monitoring solution, Camigan announced Dec. 2.    Camgian’s Quantum is...