Focus: Telecom

[Satellite Today – 6-10-08] Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK) has joined its Launch Systems and Space Systems groups into a single business unit, the company announced June 10.     Dubbed the Space Systems group, the organization will be the world’s largest solid rocket launch systems provider as well as a leading manufacturer of components and subsystems...

[Satellite Today – 6-9-08] Globecomm Systems Inc. received a contract to build and install a Ku-band ground station from an unnamed telecommunications customer in Asia, Globecomm announced June 9.     The station will provide the customer with the ability to improve service availability and overcome outages due to severe rainstorms. The station will include Globecomm...

 

[Satellite Today – 6-9-08] Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) appointed Arlene Kahng general counsel, the operator announced June 9.      Kahng will be responsible for all legal matters associated with developing and operating satellite-based businesses. Kahng previously served as the associate general counsel for Intelsat and the former PanAmSat since 1997.

[Satellite Today – 06-06-08] Globalstar completed the installation of a satellite gateway in Singapore and signed a deal with Singapore’s leading telco, Globalstar said June 4. Globalstar installed a simplex data appliqué at its new gateway ground station in Singapore which completes construction of the gateway that will provide Globalstar coverage to significant parts of...

[Satellite News – 6-5-08] The satellite industry is well-placed to help industry meet the  challenges of connecting people around the globe, Hamadoun Touré, secretary general of  International Telecommunications Union (ITU), said June 3 at Intelsat’s Global Telecommunications Meeting (GTM) in Washington.     “No other technology can quickly achieve large scale coverage to dispersed populations,” Touré...

[Satellite Today – 06-05-08] Detecon Al Saudia Co. Ltd. signed a multi-year agreement with Intelsat to distribute Intelsat’s Network Broadband Global Maritime service to Detecon’s maritime customers, Inelsat announced June 5.      Detecon, a German-Saudi Arabian joint venture telecommunications and information technology company, will provide the service to its cargo vessel and oil rig customers...

[Satellite Today – 06-05-08] Lavell Systems Inc. entered into a definitive agreement to acquire SkyPort Global Communications, Lavell said June 5.     SkyPort, a provider in carrier-class satellite communications works with the National Guard and commercial clients in the oil and gas sector and recently won a contract with Cisco to provide satellite solutions to...

[Satellite Today – 06-05-08] DataPath has launched a new satcom terminal for the U.S. military, the company said June 5.     The DataPath V-Snap Fly-Away multi-band Satcom terminal is part of the company’s continued focus on developing systems that leverage the U.S. military’s Wideband Global Satcom (WGS), which supports U.S. military operations around the globe...

[Satellite Today – 06-05-08] The European Satellite Operators Association (ESOA) has appointed Eutelsat CEO Giuliano Berretta its new chairman, succeeding Christodoulos Protopapas, CEO of Hellas Sat.     “Satellites face tough issues in the world today,” Berretta said in a statement. “Besides pushing the benefits they provide of enabling communication between people anywhere, anytime, we find...