High-Speed Satellite Internet Keeps Our Troops Connected to Home

Monday, March 9th, 2009

By Marshawn Edwards

Stationed far from home, the troops holding down the frontlines in our military operations rarely have access to the Internet. Line of sight radios have been the only communication method in the past for the frontline troops, and buildings and natural formations can block those signals.

Recently, the Defense Department has made it a priority to connect frontline troops to home using satellite Internet and satellite communications. Satellite communications have been used for decades in critical military operations. However, now the demand for mobile connectivity has the military working on expanding technologies and using existing methods to their full potential.

Spaceway 3 Satellite to fuel Hughes growth in the competetive Satellite Internet market

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

by Ayaz Sait

Hughes has been handed over the on-orbit operations of the Spaceway 3 satellite on December 18th 2007. This was a historic occasion and CEO Pradman Kaul thanked the Boeing team for successfully placing the satellite in the orbit. With this Hughes will move aggressively to provide broadband communication services to enterprises, consumer, Small and Medium businesses and the Government sector. The satellite was launched in August from the Arianespace launch facility in Kourou, French Guiana. Operating on the globally assigned Ka-band spectrum it will help Hughes offer high speed Satellite Internet services to customers all over North America. There are many benefits that Hughes will derive from the Spaceway 3 satellite. Spaceway 3 is the third in the Spaceway series. The first two satellites offer high definition Television services to DirecTV customers.