Month: April 2003

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...

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...

Hughes Network Systems (HNS) and Net2Phone are partnering to offer what they describe as the first end-to-end satellite voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) service. The service is tailored as a...

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...

Tucson, Ariz.-based Specialized Leasing [OTCBB: SPLZ] has signed an agreement to become the exclusive leasing agent for Alternative Air PCS, a distributor of Iridium Satellite’s satellite phones and service. Alt-Air...

The European Space Agency has appointed Antonio Fabrizi to a four-year term as director of launchers. Since 2000, Fabrizi has been vice president of the Space Business Unit at FiatAvio,...

This year will be a transition year for SES Americom, said CEO Dean Olmstead. The satellite operator will try to position itself for the future when the market picks up,...

Concentrax, a Houston-based provider of vehicle monitoring services and technologies, has launched Track-Down 2.0, a Web server application that uses wireless data from GPS tracking devices to track vehicles. The...

A Proton launch vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Thursday at 10:37 a.m. local time (12:23 a.m. EDT), and placed the Russian Cosmos 2397 satellite into geostationary orbit. Separation...

satellite manufacturer and launcher Orbital Sciences [NYSE: ORB] reported revenues of $136.7 million for the first quarter, a 13 percent increase compared with $120.7 million reported in the same quarter...