Serving Those Near And Far
Telesat Canada is a company that was originally formed as a domestic satellite organization to provide basic services to all Canadians. In 1969, when the company was formed, the government...
Month: October 2000
Technology Trends: Delivering The Internet Via Satellite
By Rob Fernandez Few would dispute that the Internet has swept up the satellite industry as it has everything else within its broad reach. While the nature of satellite technology...
Broadband Beat: Dishing It Out
By Theresa Foley The coming wave of new broadband satellites would be useless without comparable advances in user terminals, and earth station developers have a number of impressive advanced antenna...
Orbital Sciences to Sell Fairchild Defense Electronics For $100 Million
Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] said that it has agreed to sell its Fairchild Defense electronics business, which supplies avionics for military aircraft, to a U.S. subsidiary of Smiths Industries plc,...
StarBand Chooses Commtouch Software To Provide Messaging To Subscribers
StarBand Communications Inc., formerly Gilat-To-Home, which is building a DBS Internet service, will supply its users with e-mail and messaging through and agreement with Commtouch Software Ltd. [CTCH] of Mountain...
InSight Telecommunications To Sell Ku-band Capacity On GE 2
InSight Telecommunications Corp. of Boston has agreed to sell, schedule and service the 24 Ku-band transponders on the GE 2 satellite that previously was used by Primestar. The agreement for...