Euroconsult today announced the establishment of an office in Japan, building upon the existing relationship with Shigeki Kuzuoka who has partnered with Euroconsult since 2013. Kuzuoka will be Head of Euroconsult Japan, based in Yokohama.

SatService GmbH, a turnkey systems integrator based in the Lake Constance area of Germany has appointed Kai Koppenburg as Sales Director.  Koppenburg will be leading all of SatService's sales efforts worldwide.

Mark Rawlins, Eutelsat’s Director of Communication System Operations, has been elected as the new Chairman of the Space Data Association (SDA), an international non-profit association of satellite operators that supports the controlled, reliable and efficient sharing of space environment and RF spectrum data.
Mark succeeds the current SDA Chairman, Ronald Busch who is Vice President of Network Engineering for Intelsat.

Astrotech Corporation (Nasdaq:ASTC) today announced that it has appointed Raj Mellacheruvu as Chief Operating Officer ("COO") of the Company. Mr. Mellacheruvu’s appointment is effective as of February 2, 2015. In this new role,  Mellacheruvu will report to Thomas B. Pickens III, Chairman & CEO of Astrotech Corporation and help lead business operations for Astrotech and its subsidiaries.

NETIA announced the appointment of Jérémie Mekaelian as the company's head of international sales. In this new position, Mekaelian will supervise NETIA's worldwide sales force and lead continued development and implementation of sales and presales programs.

Murray’s key tasks will be to increase the penetration of the Orion IP maritime broadband terminal in the market and oversee the commercial roll-out of the new Atlas IP broadband terminal in the first quarter of 2015.

Ross Video announced today that Matthew Allard has joined the company as Marketing Product Management Content Creation Manager.

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (NASDAQ, TASE: GILT) announced today that Yuval Ronen has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of the company, effective April 12, 2015.

Inmarsat (LSE:ISAT.L), today announced that Dr. Hamadoun Touré will join the Board on March 1, 2015 as a non-executive director. Dr. Touré was Secretary General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the specialised agency of the United Nations dedicated to the information and communication technologies from 2007 to 2014.

The Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) announced four new inductees for the 2015 Satellite Hall of Fame, to be honored on March 17 during SSPI’s annual Gala Benefit Dinner.  They will join more than 40 Hall of Fame members including Dr. Arthur C. Clarke, Dr. Harold Rosen, Olof Lundberg, Eddy Hartenstein, Frederic d'Allest, Sidney Topol, Takayushi Yoshida, Mary Ann Elliott, Mary Frost, Peter Jackson, Dick Tauber, Susan Irwin and Robert Berry.