With the addition of $738M in financing earlier this year Globalstar is pushing closer to its launch of 24 second generation satellites beginning in Summer 2010. The six satellites scheduled for the first launch next summer are in final assembly integration and testing. Globalstar expects to have all 24 satellites...

BGAN user in Tibet couldn't get satellite IP connection. BGAN worked fine before leaving U.S. Gave customer required APN for China before he left U.S. Using correct APN, but no connection. He went to Nepal and BGAN started working again. It appears China gov is blocking BGAN traffic from Tibet....

PROBLEM: A user in a large medical group was using an HNS-9201 Inmarsat BGAN terminal for emergency backup communications. He could not get an IP connection on his Windows PC.SOLUTION: Outfitter Satellite technical support checked carefully and found that the problem originated with a setting on the RADIUS server that...