Author: Staff Writer

The Maryland State Senate has removed the mandatory energy efficiency standards for direct broadcast satellite (DBS) and cable set-top boxes that was part of the proposed Maryland Energy Efficiency Standards...

El Segundo, Calif.-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), founded by Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk, has successfully test fired the company’s Falcon rocket main engine. “Satellites and spacecraft urgently need a more...

Satellite communications company New Skies Satellites [AEX, NYSE: NSK] has named Jurandir M. Pitsch as sales director for its commercial activities in Brazil and the Mercosur region of Latin America....

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has purchased Integral’s [ISYS] SKYLIGHT ground terminal system for receiving and processing satellite Earth science data. The system includes a receiver and data processing,...

SES Global [Luxembourg: SESG], the world’s largest satellite operator, increased its revenues by 1.38 billion euros ($1.47 billion), or 38 percent, from 2001 to 2002. The company’s profit, however, dipped...

Week of March 14 – 20, 2003 Percentage Change Symbol March 20 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.41 0.7 (10.8)...

John Scelfo, Sirius Satellite Radio‘s [Nasdaq: SIRI] chief financial officer, is leaving the company April 6 to join a company outside the satellite industry. Scelfo played a key role in...

Programmers that were unable to re-negotiate contract terms with money-losing DirecTV Latin America may have lost leverage last week after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The question...

ISecuretrac [OTC: ISRE], developer of Global Positioning System-based personal tracking devices, has signed a distribution agreement to provide Premier Geografix LTD with its tracNET24 GPS tracking solution for distribution in...

XM Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: XMSR], Sirius Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: SIRI] and SoundExchange, have agreed to royalty rates and terms for the public performance of copyrighted sound recordings by the satellite...