Author: Rachel Scharmann

[Via Satellite 04-11-2014] KVH has hired Candice Pascal as vice president of content acquisition, who will lead the company in managing commercial maritime distribution rights for its entertainment content. Pascal...

[Via Satellite 04-11-2014] The top 100 scoring teams from across the United States in the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC) will travel to Great Meadow in The Plains, Va. to...

[Via Satellite 04-11-2014] Arianespace launched the European Space Agency’s (ESA) first Copernicus environmental satellite, Sentinel 1A, on April 3 from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. This mission is the...

[Via Satellite 04-11-2014] Mitsubishi Electric signed a contract to begin development on the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite 2 (GOSAT 2) for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). GOSAT 2 will...

[Via Satellite 04-11-2014] Boeing handed over a fifth Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite to the U.S. Air Force to improve upon the accuracy of the constellation. Boeing and the Air...

[Via Satellite 04-11-2014] IZT developed and sent two Satellite Channel Emulators (SCEs) to Space Systems/Loral (SSL) to be used to test overall system performance by SSL’s end customers. The SCEs...

[Via Satellite 04-11-2014] Seeafrika plans to deploy RGB’s TransAct Encoder/Transcoder along with RGB’s TransAct Packager in the delivery of its Over-the-Top (OTT) video services in Europe. Seeafrika intends to deliver...

[Via Satellite 04-11-2014] Envivio introduced a new G5 family of Intel-based server appliances. The new G5 series supports Ultra-HD resolution and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), increases compression density, and...

[Via Satellite 04-10-2014] AsiaSat signed a contract with Arqiva for C-band capacity on the AsiaSat 5 satellite to broadcast sporting events to the Asia-Pacific region. AsiaSat 5 is Asia’s prime...

[Via Satellite 04-10-2014] Ball Aerospace completed a series of environmental tests on its commercial remote-sensing satellite, WorldView 3. The satellite, being built for DigitalGlobe, successfully passed thermal vacuum, acoustic, vibration...