Times are changing Giovanni Verlini, Editor of Satellite Evolution Asia, spoke with Toni Lee Rudnicki, the newly-appointed Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of iDirect. Click here to read the full article

Telenor Satellite Services expands equipment and services available through its general services administration contract
Telenor Satellite Service has received a modification to its existing General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Technology Service (FTS) contract expanding the variety and types of satellite services available to all United States government agencies and authorized government contractors...

ProtoStar appoints Paul Froelich CFO
ProtoStar Ltd., a Bermuda corporation with principal U.S. operations in San Francisco, has appointed Paul Froelich as its Chief Financial Officer...

AAE Systems, Inc. awarded contract by major US oil firm
AAE Systems, Inc. has been awarded with a contract by a major U.S.-based oil services corporation with operations in the Sultanate of Oman. Under this contract, AAE agreed to supply the oil firm with products from its Eclipse MF-TDMA DAMA product line...

SATLYNX demonstrate transportable instant communications
Satlynx has unveiled an instant communications solution based on the combination of Satlynx Mobile, a robust and flexible vehicle mounted transportable VSAT antenna, the Cisco IP VSAT Satellite WAN Module, operated in EMEA as the Satlynx 9000C and the Cisco iComm “Instant Communications” solution...

NSS-8 satellite launch failure
SES NEW SKIES regrets to announce the failure of the launch of NSS-8, the sixth satellite in the SES NEW SKIES fleet, onboard a Zenith-3SL launch vehicle, and the resulting total loss of the satellite...

CASBAA Forum is converging on satellite
The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) will stage the seventh annual CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum in Singapore on Monday June 18th 2007. The CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum traditionally acts as a curtain-raiser for the CommunicAsia and BroadcastAsia trade shows in Singapore...

ADVANTECH Satellite Networks receives a contract to provide a DVB-RCS VSAT satellite communications system to Saudi Aramco
ADVANTECH AMT has announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, ADVANTECH Satellite Networks Inc, has been awarded a contract to provide a new VSAT satellite communications network for Saudi Aramco in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...

TerreStar announces offering of debt securities
TerreStar Networks announced that it intends to offer Senior Secured Discount Notes due 2015 for expected aggregate gross proceeds of $450.0 million...

Comtech Telecommunications receives $9.5 million of movement tracking system orders
Comtech Telecommunications announced that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, received orders totaling $9.5 million on its Movement Tracking System, or MTS contract, with the US Army...

Globecomm Systems awarded infrastructure contract
Globecomm Systems announced it has been awarded a satellite infrastructure contract from a major provider of enterprise services in the United States valued at $1.2 million...

Measat 3 enters commercial service
MEASAT Satellite Systems has announced that MEASAT-3 had successfully completed in orbit testing and had entered commercial service...