Author: JJ McCoy

Last week’s news of the plans of U.K.-based private equity firm BC Partners to purchase with other investors a majority stake in Intelsat Ltd. for $5.03 billion looks to prove...

In a move designed to bolster its aeronautical broadband offerings and facilitate its entry to the land and maritime markets, EMS Technologies Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire Australia’s...

Tandberg Television, part of the Ericsson Group, appointed Al Nunez president of operations in the Americas, Tandberg announced June 25. Nunez previously served as Tandberg’s senior vice president of sales....

TeleCommunication Systems Inc. (TCS) named Barry Dowdy vice president of its SwiftLink Deployable Communications Systems division, TCS announced June 25. Dowdy will be responsible for TCS’ deployable communications business unit,...

Microspace Communications Corp. will deliver the North American premiere of the DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures movie “Transformers” to the L.A. Film Festival on June 27, Microspace announced. The pre-release...

Starsys Inc. received a subcontract from the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate to continue development of deployable boom structures for satellites, SpaceDev announced June 21. The $750,000, 24-month...

ICO North America Inc. completed the thermal vacuum test milestone for its 2 gigahertz (GHz) mobile satellite service (MSS) communications satellite, ICO announced June 22. The test, which is designed...

Boeing Co. has appointed Jeff Trauberman as vice president of business development for its Network and Space Systems (N&SS). Trauberman will be responsible for customer engagement, campaigns, advocacy efforts and...

ST Electronics has rolled out its Agilis 1.2m stabilized C-band VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) antenna. The antenna is advertised as the smallest stabilized C-band antenna currently on the market,...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA signed an agreement on June 18 to cooperate on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Pathfinder...