Author: Staff Writer

Intelsat, TVNZ Launch New Service

Intelsat Global Sales & Marketing and TVNZ Satellite Services have agreed to join forces in the occasional use broadcast services business. This alliance is designed to leverage the strengths of...

iDirect, Netdish Team Up

iDirect Technologies, a Vienna, Va.-based bi-directional satellite-based IP broadband access solution provider, and Italian infrastructure network provider Netdish have announced the successful launch of two virtual private networks in Italy...

Titan IV Launches NRO Satellite

A Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT]-built Titan IV B rocket lifted off Sept. 9 at 12:29 a.m. EDT carrying a classified payload for the U.S. Air Force and the National Reconnaissance...

Skycasters Offers New SatVox Service

Skycasters, an Akron, Ohio-based satellite Internet service provider, has announced the release of SatVox, a business quality telephone and fax communications technology for broadband satellite Internet users. The technology connects...

SES Astra Expands Footprint

Luxembourg-based satellite operator SES Astra has signed five new contracts to expand the provision of Astra one-way satellite broadband service to additional territories in Europe and North Africa. The company...

SkyFrames, ComGuard Ink Deal

SkyFrames [OTC: SKYU] has signed an agreement with ComGuard CTS to provide high-end VSAT equipment and broadband Internet services to ComGuard’s operations in remote areas of Canada. Financial terms of...

Trimble Unveils Mini-GPS Receiver

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Trimble [Nasdaq: TRMB] has introduced its smallest embedded Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver for timing applications – – the Lassen PT module. The Lassen PT modules will add...

Alcatel Wins Boeing Order

Boeing (NYSE: BA) has selected Alcatel Space, a unit of Paris-based Alcatel [NYSE: ALA] to supply a multi-million payload for a satellite Boeing is build for XM Satellite Radio [Nasdaq:...