Author: Staff Writer

Ramtelecom Inc. introduced an auto-mount antenna system designed to provide satellite broadband access anywhere in North America, the company announced Oct. 16. Designed for the oil and gas industry, the...

An Arianespace Ariane-5 rocket Oct. 13 completed a daylight launch from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, orbiting the DirecTV-9S and Optus-D1 satellites along with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)’s...

Preparing for its fifth mission of 2006, Sea Launch announced Oct. 16 that its Odyssey launch platform and the Sea Launch Commander have departed from the company’s home port in...

Harris Corp. announced Oct. 16 that it has uplinked to a Milstar satellite using an Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Navy Multiband Terminal prototype system. Once fielded, the terminal will...

Com Dev, a Canadian manufacturer of space hardware subsystems, delivered a key component for an international satellite designed to search for water in deep space, the company announced Oct. 13....

African countries are appealing for a key European space program to be extended into Africa. Representatives of the African Union, the ACP Secretariat and the five African Regional Economic Groupings...

All Road Communications, a San Diego-based satellite phone and services provider, expects motor races to drive demand for business this week, with the Baja 1000, Baja Haha and Dakar events...

Alcatel Alenia Space and Globalstar Inc. announced their signing of an initial authorization-to-proceed agreement to start work on mobile satellite voice-and-data services provider Globalstar’s second-generation satellite constellation. The preliminary contract...

In the increasingly connected world, "users are growing to expect continuous access to data, and they increasingly are using location information where they live and work," according to Darren Koenig,...