ILS Successfully Launches Defense Communications Satellite
At 8:40 p.m. EDT Oct. 19, a Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT]-built Atlas 2A rocket soared into space from Pad 36A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Less than 30...
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Inetcable.com Selects BroadLogic's Desktop Satellite Receiver For Service To PCs
Inetcable.com Inc. of Ottawa, an applications service provider, has selected BroadLogic Network Technologies Inc. of Milpitas, Calif., to supply it with BroadLogic’s Satellite Express desktop satellite receiver so it can...
Arnav To Use Globalstar System To Provide Service To Aviation Market
Globalstar [GSTRF] and Arnav Systems Inc. of Puyallup, Wash., said Arnav will use the Globalstar system to provide satellite-based voice and data communications to the general aviation market. General aviation...
Qualcomm Joins SkyBridge, Contributes Its CDMA Technology
Qualcomm Inc. [QCOM] of San Diego has joined the SkyBridge LP group of companies planning to build an 80-satellite low-Earth-orbit system for high-speed Internet connections. It will contribute its code...
ASTRA GET CLUBBERS LINKED UP
DC Sat.Net has completed the first series of commercial IP streaming transmissions using the Astra BBI News feed system. The live transmissions were carried out for DC’s client Escape TV,...
GLOBALSTAR TO PROVIDE AERONAUTICAL SERVICES
Arnav Systems Inc has signed an agreement with Globalstar to provide satellite-based voice and data communication for the Arnav Aeronautical Network (AAN). Serving the general aviation market, which includes regional...
VIVENDI TO OFFLOAD BSKYB EQUITY
Vivendi SA has agreed to sell its 23 per cent stake in British Sky Broadcasting Group, Europe’s second- largest pay-TV company, to secure European regulatory approval for its $44 billion...
JAPANESE N-SAT-110 LAUNCHED
The N-SAT-110 telecommunications satellite, designed and built for Space Communications Corporation (SCC) and JSAT Corporation of Tokyo, Japan by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems, was launched successfully from Kourou, French...
PANAMSAT'S PAS-1R GEARING UP FOR LIFT-OFF
PanAmSat Corporation’s latest spacecraft, the PAS-1R Atlantic Ocean Region satellite, has arrived in Kourou, French Guiana in preparation for its ‘historic’ lift-off in mid November. “The deployment of PAS-1R marks...
ECHOSTAR-GEOCAST TO DELIVER PERSONALISED BROADBAND SERVICES
EchoStar Communications Corporation and Geocast Network Systems Inc have reached an agreement to deliver personalised broadband services to PC users via EchoStar’s DISH Network satellite TV service. Under the terms...