Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the global leader in broadband satellite network solutions and services, informed that Tony Bardo, assistant vice president for government solutions at Hughes, will deliver a speach at IWCE 2010 on March 9 in Las Vegas. Mr. Bardo will serve with other satellite industry executives on a workshop panel moderated [...]

Boeing has informed that the U.S. Air Force accepted control of the third Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) military communications satellite on March 1, after the spacecraft passed several weeks of rigorous on-orbit tests.  
WGS is the U.S. Department of Defense’s highest-capacity satellite communications system. WGS-3 completes the initial constellation of three spacecraft, which will provide [...]

As far as technologies go, satellite networking has had more ups and downs than a humiliated reality TV star.
 
The space-based services, which can be used for voice and data transmissions, are frequently on the losing side of comparisons with sexier, newer wireless technologies. Meanwhile, corporate bankruptcies and grounded government programs, such as the Air Force’s [...]

The U.S. military is increasingly turning to the private sector for many of the services it relies on. After the supply of energy and terrestrial fiber communications, satellite communications is the top capability that the U.S. military relies on the private sector to deliver.
 

 
Industry experts estimate that 80 percent of all satellite bandwidth that the [...]

Vislink has announced a global partnership with Fujitsu Group company, Fujitsu Frontech Media Solutions. The partnership will integrate Fujitsu’s leading HD H.264 encoding / decoding technology with its own systems for transmission of broadcast images by satellite, terrestrial radio or IP connectivity.
 

 
- Vislinks sees Fujitsu’s strength in video compression combining well with its own modulation [...]