The Director and Co-founder of the Space Portal at NASA Ames Research Centre, Dr. Daniel Rasky, will be speaking at the International Space Commerce 2013 Summit to be held on 29th-30th October in London. Alan Brunstrom, the Head of Applications in the Business Office which aims to promote integrated applications at the European Space Agency (ESA) will also be part of the speaking faculty for the ISC2013 Summit and will speak about ESA's applications development programs.

Eutelsat Communications on Tuesday reported a 5.1 percent increase in revenues to €1,284 million (US$1,703 million) and operating income before depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of €995.3 million (US$1,320.22 million) equivalent to 77.5 percent margins for fiscal year 2012-2013.

The board recommended dividends of €1.08 (US$1.43) per share representing a payout of 67 percent.

The favourable results prompted the company to raise outlook to over 2.5 percent revenue growth for 2013–2014 and an average of over 5 percent for the two following years until 30 June 2016.

British set-top box maker Pace Plc said profits in the first half more than tripled, driven by continuing demand for its media-server products in North America and Latin American markets, which offset some softness in Europe.

Revenue grew 31 percent to $1.318 billion compared with $1.006 billion at this point last year. Profit rose by $35.1 million (57 percent) and adjusted EBITA rose to $96.7 million, delivering $92 million of free cash flow, a 95.1 percent adjusted EBITA to cash conversion ratio.

Hughes Network Systems announced today that it has achieved carrier data rates exceeding 1 Gbps on its JUPITER System. Hughes believes this achievement to be a technology first for High Throughput Satellite (HTS) systems, resulting in more subscribers per satellite and greater capacity per subscriber.

SES S.A. reported slightly higher revenues of €910.5 million (US$1.207 billion) for the first six months of the year compared to the same period last year, and a flat operating profit of €408.6 million (US$541.85 million) during the first half of the year compared to €411.5 million (US$545.78 million) during the same period last year.

Telenor has reported a return to revenue growth after strong performances in India, Thailand and Sweden. In the second quarter of 2013 Telenor Group reported revenues of US$4.37 billion (NOK 25.7 billion), representing an organic revenue growth of 2 percent. The company saw zero organic revenue growth in the first quarter.

Russian officials have suspended all launches of Proton rockets following the July 2 launch failure of a Proton M rocket carrying three GLONASS navigational satellites into space.  The Russian Federal Space Agency, commonly called Roscosmos, announced last week that a Russian State Commission has been established and has started investigating the potential causes of the failure.

This year's edition of Globecomm's Tech Forum 2013 will focus on "Profiting on Disruptive Change" and will look into new revenue opportunities, enhanced efficiencies, and reduced OPEX in mobile, media and entertainment, and the technologies that drive disruptive technologies.  The Tech Forum will be held from August 4-6, 2013 at  Globecomm Headquarters in Hauppauge, New York, USA.

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.  today announced that it has revised its management objective targets for 2013. Revenue for 2013 is now expected to be between US$ 335 million to US$ 345 million as compared to the previously stated range of US$ 350 million to US$360 million and EBITDA is expected to be approximately 7% as compared to 9%.

The European Union’s Digital Agenda calls for every citizen and business to have access to broadband that provides at least 2 megabits per second by 2013. Today that’s largely possible. In fact more than 99% of the population of the EU can get ten times that. “Now that twenty megabit bandwidths are commonly on offer and some tariffs offer customers unlimited data the case for satellite broadband has, in our view, reached a tipping point,” says Oliver Johnson, Chief Executive at Point Topic.