Author: Staff Writer

Dulles, Va.-based SkyBitz has signed up five new trucking customers for its satellite-based trailer tracking and information management service — Southern Cal Transport, Fugro Chance, On Time Transportation, Royal Freight...

Minneapolis-based Alliant Techsystems [NYSE: ATK] has signed an agreement with Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] Commercial Space Systems to supply composite satellite components for the company’s A2100 communications satellite series. The...

Nick Stubbs has been appointed managing director of Astra Marketing France, the French affiliate of satellite operator SES Astra, a unit of SES Global [Luxembourg: SESG]. Prior to joining SES...

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth satellite observing systems are being used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) to improve the accuracy and timeliness of...

Lindon, Utah-based Helius has signed up Paris-based LTRT as a strategic partner for its satellite broadband product for corporate networks. The Helius Strategic Alliance Program integrates products and services from...

Eagle Broadband [AMEX: EAG], a League City, Tex.-based supplier of broadband and communications products and services, has signed a distribution agreement with San Diego-based Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) to...

Alcatel Space, a subsidiary of Paris-based Alcatel [NYSE: ALA], has been selected by EADS Astrium, the prime contractor for France’s SPIRALE early warning satellite program, to build two demonstration satellites....

The worldwide digital radio market, both satellite and terrestrial, will grow to over 19 million unit shipments in 2007, according to a report by market research firm In- Stat/MDR. The...

By Jimmy Schaeffler LAS VEGAS–In the competitive ebb and flow of the U.S. multichannel video market, satellite and wireless technologies have gained significant advantages, based on what was shown to...

Shin Satellite, the Thailand-based satellite operator, hopes to gets its ambitious iPSTAR broadband program moving this year. The operator plans to launch iPSTAR-1 in the middle of this year as...