Author: Staff Writer

At Press Time: New China Spy Charges

At deadline, Satellite News learned a grand jury in Camden, N.J., indicted the president of Universal Technologies Inc. and his wife, charging them with 46 counts, including an allegation that...

Congress Short-Changes Space-Based Systems

By Paul Dykewicz, Access Intelligence LLC The whopping federal budget deficits that the U.S. government has been compiling in large part to fund major military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan...

Regulatory Review: What's Up, Regulators?

by Gerry Oberst This year’s Satel Conseil symposium in Paris had a session titled "What’s up, regulators?" Needless to say, it spurred some debates. Is the global regulatory environment no...

Satellite Radio Revs Up Its Growth Engine

By Steve Blum, Tellus Venture Associates At 2.6 million subscribers, satellite radio now represents the 16th-largest radio market in the United States. That’s more listeners than the entire Minneapolis-St. Paul...

ASTRO COO Looks To Ride PVR Growth

Astro All Asia Networks (ASTRO) intends to amass around 2.5 million satellite TV subscribers in Malaysia during the next four to five years. The DTH (direct-to-home) satellite operator, which currently...

GPS Technology Aids School-Bus Safety

The San Francisco Unified School District recently upgraded its transportation security with the help of San Diego, Calif.-based Satellite Security Systems (S3). S3, a provider of asset tracking and control...