Month: May 2003

In today’s ever-changing world, portable earth stations continue to gain popularity among satellite users. Whether for news crews, emergency aid workers, troops or businesses/institutions needing fast on-the-ground connectivity, portable earth […]

If you live in the United States, there is a good chance you bought one of the estimated 1.6 billion movie tickets that were sold here last year. At the […]

by Carissa Bryce Christensen Recent world events demonstrate U.S. dependence on space for executing military operations. U.S. national security space spending will dominate the space industry for the immediate future […]

by James Careless When disaster strikes anywhere in the United States, the American Red Cross (ARC) springs into action. Within hours, its highly-trained professionals arrive on the scene, coordinating rescue […]

People NEW SKIES: Appoints Sales Director New Skies Satellites N.V. appointed Jurandir Pitsch sales director for the company’s commercial activities in Brazil and the Mercosur region of Latin America. He […]

Sapias, a San Francisco, Calif.-based provider of asset management products, has selected TechnoCom’s enterprise technology for its fleet intelligence platform, an end-to-end resource management platform for enterprise fleets. Los Angeles-based […]

Santanu Dutta has joined Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV), a Reston, Va.-based provider of mobile satellite communications services, as vice president of systems engineering. Dutta will be responsible for the system […]

Harold Rosen will be inducted May 3 into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his work developing the world’s first 24-hour communication satellite. Rosen is a consultant and former […]

Maqsat, a Dutch satellite communications provider, has joined the Europe*Star gateway program. The program, consisting of network providers, national telecom providers and independent teleport operations, provides access to Europe*Star’s satellites. […]

The community of Coffman Cove, Alaska, has selected SkyFrames [OTC Bulletin Board: SKYU] to install and coordinate the implementation of a satellite broadband network that will provide a 2-mile broadband […]

by Gerry Oberst Comments are being submitted in response to two consultations on space policy in Europe, one from the European Commission and another from the British National Space Centre […]

Gilat Satellite Networks [Nasdaq: GILTF] has been selected by China Telecommunications to provide a large-scale, satellite-based rural telephony network in Tibet. China Telecom will make an initial purchase of a […]