Month: April 2003

Canada Funds Satellite-based Telematics Project

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...

ILS Proton Launch of AMC-9 Postponed

Launch of the AMC-9 satellite has been delayed by about 30 days after last Saturday’s planned lift-off was postponed due to a technical problem with a component on the Proton...

Connexion By Boeing Selects IONA

IONA [Nasdaq: IONA], a Waltham, Mass.-based provider of integration software, and Connexion By Boeing, a business unit of Boeing [NYSE: BA] that provides communication services to aircraft, have announced that...

PHC Poland To Offer DirecWay

Hughes Network Systems Europe (HNSE), a unit of Hughes Network Systems, has agreed to provide its DirecWay broadband satellite service to PHC Poland for resale to small and medium-sized businesses...

Satellite Would Detect Killer Quakes

A start-up company has raised seed money and collaborated with a top-notch university to launch a satellite this summer aimed at detecting signs of earthquake activity in California with the...

FAA OKs Rockwell Collins System

Rockwell Collins’ [NYSE: COL] high-speed satellite communications (satcom) system has received Federal Aviation Administration certification for use on aircraft manufactured by Bombardier Aerospace. The Collins HST-900 system provides in-flight passenger...