Satellite News

Artel, a global provider of information technology and managed network services, announced Feb. 21 that the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has…

ViaSat is acquiring privately held Intelligent Compression Technologies (ICT), ViaSat announced Feb. 21. ICT provides…

Giat has won a key VSAT deal in one of Africa’s major markets by signing a deal with Nigerian ISP Hyperia, which will…

Batelco, a telco in Bahrain, has signed a deal to offer satellite services to customers in the Middle East. Its memorandum of understanding with…

EchoStar, the U.S. pay-TV operator on Feb. 21 announced both a satellite launch and a major international investment. The company plans to launch with International Launch Services (ILS) a satellite in 2008 on a Proton Breeze-M vehicle built by ILS partner Khrunichev State…

The World Teleport Association has awarded this year’s Teleport Awards For Excellence.

Autonomous navigation software developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) drove the NASA Mars Rover “Opportunity” last week in the software’s first live test on the Red Planet.

Satellite communications provider CapRock Communications announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Arrowhead Global Solutions Inc.