Author: Staff Writer

Siemens Communications announced Sept. 22 that Croatian TV viewers with a broadband connection and set-top box can enjoy MaxTV offered by Croatian T-com, a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary. For the country’s...

A new asset to study solar phenomena was launched Saturday from Japan. Built by Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT], the Focal Plane Package (FPP) on the Solar-B satellite was lofted from...

The impending merger of France’s two satellite-TV providers — Canalsat and TPS — has raised the question about which fixed satellite services (FSS) company will inherit the combined companies’ business,...

The 1,713th flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle was performed Sept. 18 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 10:08 a.m. Baikonur time (6:08 a.m., in Paris). It carried two...

SES Americom‘s new Internet-protocol (IP) TV service promises "a front-row seat to the next phase of video technology" for more than 30 programmers and networks that have signed deals to...

Santa Claus is getting nervous: Judging from satellite images taken last month, the Arctic’s perennial sea ice pack has encountered gaping openings of territory reaching all the way to the...

After a few frustrating years of slow launch rates due to a depressed commercial launch market as well as satellite manufacturing delays, Sea Launch is on target to perform six...

DTV Lost amid widely published speculation last week that Rupert Murdoch might divest his interests in DirecTV were definitive answers about what such a move would mean to the satellite...

The market for set-top boxes (STB) that combine Internet Protocol (IP) and direct broadcast service functionality is growing, and Michael Arden, an analyst with ABI Research believes satellite pay-TV operators...