Month: April 2003

Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has been awarded a contract by Japan’s JSAT Corp. to build an A2100 geostationary telecommunications satellite. Financial terms were not disclosed. The satellite, designated JCSAT-9, will...

Revenues generated by Canadian firms in providing direct-to-home (DTH) satellite TV and multipoint distribution system (MDS) services have soared since 1998, according to statistics released this week by the Canadian...

Marlink has signed a three-year agreement with Kyma Ship Management, of Miami, Fla., to provide complete satellite communications onboard the TSS Topaz cruise ship. The vessel will be under charter...

Reduced demand for satellite services caused Intelsat‘s revenue to slip 8 percent in the first quarter, dropping to $238 million, compared to $258.5 million for the same quarter last year....

With satellite pay-TV markets in Europe beginning to mature, conditional access (CA) vendor Viaccess is looking to increase its presence in other parts of the world. The vendor is part...

SI International [Nasdaq: SINT], a Reston, Va.-based provider of information technology and space system products and services, has been awarded a contract with a potential value of $24 million to...

Inmarsat, a London-based mobile satellite service provider, has announced the commercial availability of its Fleet F55 and Fleet F33 voice and data services for small maritime vessels. Fleet F55 and...

The Canadian Ice Service (CIS) has exercised an option with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates’ [Toronto: MDA] RADARSAT International subsidiary to extend the provision of RADARSAT-1 images for ice monitoring and...

LocatioNet, a San Diego-based developer of a location-based services for the wireless market, is offering gpsOne applications, known as PointSearch, based on Qualcomm‘s [Nasdaq: QCOM] binary runtime environment for wireless...

Industry Canada is providing C$5.25 million (US$3.61 million) in funding for a C$17.5 million (US$12 million) project by Vistar Telecommunications to develop a next-generation satellite-based telematics system for wireless asset...