Author: Staff Writer

After one or two delays, Arianespace successfully launched the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta probe March 2. Rosetta is scheduled to reach the comet Churyumov- Gerasimenko in 2014 after three...

The performance of fixed satellite operators is hamstrung by a lingering overcapacity problem that generally will exceed demand for years to come. That is the view of two industry consultants...

Week of Feb. 27 – March 4, 2004 Percentage Change Symbol March 4 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 2.44 3.0...

Geographic Data Technology (GDT), a Lebanon, N.H.-based map database company, and Boston’s Teletype, a GPS technology provider, have teamed to turn GPS/Java- enabled wireless phones into tracking devices, giving both...

West Coast retail customers who shop at Good Guys have been enjoying in-car TV via the TracVision5, made by KVH Industries [KVHI], a Middletown, R.I.-based satellite company. KVH used a...

ISECUREtrac [ISRE], an Omaha, Neb.-based Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking service, signed a three-year agreement with Pennsylvania Adult Probation and Parole to supply the county with its tracNET24 criminal-justice tracking...

New York-based Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI] and XM Satellite Radio [XMSR], two U.S. satellite radio service providers, announced their services will be available as factory-installed equipment or dealer-installed options beginning...

Luxsat expects to play a key role in making Video-On Demand (VOD) a reality across Europe. It aims to help satellite, cable and terrestrial players bring a rich VOD service...

A multi-beam antenna design that simultaneously communicates with as many as 20 satellites – compared with one antenna for one satellite in conventional systems — was awarded the 2004 “Industry...

Mark Dankberg, the entrepreneurial engineer who founded and heads Carlsbad, Calif.-based ViaSat [VSAT], offered a bold challenge for the satellite industry to double or triple its available broadband bandwidth and...