Author: Staff Writer

Tandberg Television, a supplier of technology to satellite pay-TV operators, reported strong revenue growth in its 2005 second quarter. Revenue for the quarter, which ended June 30, was 457 million...

Globalstar LLC, opened a gateway in Sebring, Fla., designed to enhance its coverage in Florida, the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, the company announced July 14. The Sebring Gateway...

XM Satellite Radio acquired WCS Wireless and the company’s wireless spectrum licenses in the United States, XM announced July 13. The new frequencies, which lie adjacent to XM’s satellite spectrum,...

The SSETI Express, the first spacecraft to be designed and built solely by European students, has been shipped to Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced July...

Globetel Communications Corp. announced July 13 that its wholly owned subsidiary Sanswire Networks LLC signed a cooperative research and development agreement with Proton Energy Systems Inc., a subsidiary of Distributed...

GPS Industries Inc., a provider of Wi-Fi wireless and GPS-enabled communications and management systems for golf facilities and residential communities, announced July 13 that White Hawk Country Club in northwest...

ABB of Quebec City, Quebec, received a contract to supply the primary components for a Japanese satellite that will measure greenhouse gases in support of the Kyoto protocol, ABB recently...

Ottawa’s C-Com Satellite Systems Inc. earned Cdn. $53,000 ($44,000) in its second quarter on revenue of Cdn. $1.3 million ($1.1 million), the company reported July 12. In the 2004 second...

Iridium Satellite LLC said the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service fitted 200 primarily contract aircraft with Iridium equipment. The aircraft are part of the interagency Automated Flight-Following (AFF)...

Digitalglobe July 13 announced the availability of a product aimed at helping mappers, planners and geographic information systems specialists improve geospatial applications with current high-resolution satellite imagery data. Digitalglobe Citysphere...