Gateway Chooses iDirect to Expand Services in Africa
[Satellite Today 11-19-08] VT iDirect Inc. signed a contract with Gateway Communications to implement a...

Thales Alenia Space to Provide Amos-4 Ground Segment
[Satellite Today 11-19-08] Thales Alenia Space signed a contract with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) Ltd...

Incomnet Adds Cellular Backhaul Solution to Gilat SkyEdge Network
[Satellite Today 11-19-08] Incomnet, one of Mongolia’s largest telecommunications service providers...

Boeing to Upgrade GPS Control Segment
[Satellite Today 11-18-08] Boeing will upgrade the U.S. Air Force's Operational Control Segment (OCS)...

Year in Review: 2008 Events Set Stage for 2009
Mark Holmes and Jason Bates
Blog Special To comment on this article, visit Mark Holme’s blog at www.SatelliteToday.com/blog/?p=90 While the satellite sector generally remains in good health, a financial crisis that has cast a huge... read more 

Romain Bausch, CEO, SES
Mark Holmes
Like its fixed satellite services counterparts, SES some very interesting growth strategies in play. The operator of the second largest communications satellite fleet has an IPTV offering in the United States... read more 

J-2X Rocket Engine Completes Critical Design Review
NASA's newest high-performance rocket engine, the J-2X, successfully completed its critical design review, NASA announced. The engine passed the milestone at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala... read more 

Sea Launch Receives SICRAL 1B Satellite For Launch In January
Sea Launch took delivery of the SICRAL 1B communications satellite at the payload processing facility at the Sea Launch home port in the Port of Long Beach. With additional arrivals this month of associated... read more 

Philip Father, CEO, ProtoStar
ProtoStar hopes to make an impact in the promising DTH markets in Asia by providing capacity aboard its ProtoStar 1 satellite. The spacecraft, placed in orbit in July, carries 16 Ku-band and 38 C-band... read more 

Thales CEO Aggressively Working Towards Iridium Deal
Mark Holmes
[Satellite News 11-07-08] Thales Alenia Space has seen a significant leadership change this year. Reynald Seznec replaced Pascale Sourisse as the company’s new CEO in May. It should be an interesting... read more 

September Satellite Stock Round-Up
Jeffrey Hill
[Satellite News 09-30-08] September was a rough month for the commercial satellite market. The overall market decline that followed the U.S. House of Representatives’ rejection of the Emergency Economic... read more 

MSV Satellite-Cellular Deal Aims to Answer Criticism
Jeffrey Hill
[Satellite News 09-25-08] Two important moves have happened recently in the realm of satellite cellular communications – TerreStar Corp. sold its remaining shares in SkyTerra Communications to private... read more 

Looking Ahead To 2009
Owen D. Kurtin
2008 closes with a potential bottom of the financial institutions/credit crisis that began in the summer of 2007 and spread from the subprime mortgage market to the entire financial services industry in the... read more 

Giuliano Berretta, CEO, Eutelsat
Mark Holmes
Eutelsat Communications, which has Spanish company Abertis Telecom as one of its main shareholders, has made a number of interesting strategic moves over the last year. While continuing to grow its primary... read more 

David McGlade, CEO, Intelsat
Mark Holmes
Intelsat CEO David McGlade feels the fixed satellite services (FSS) sector is in a good position today, but he would like to see the industry as a whole “spend more time looking for big growth... read more