Month: July 2004

KVH Industries Inc. [KVHI] won a U.S. Design Patent #D493, 164 for the design of its low-profile TracVision A5 satellite TV antenna for automobiles and other passenger vehicles. The antenna...

Lars Prahm is the new director general of Eumetsat, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, replacing Tillmann Mohr. Prahm came to Eumetsat from the Danish Meteorological Institute...

Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House Science Committee, seeks help from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to keep the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s...

Bills to reauthorize the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act (SHVIA) cleared have cleared the appropriate House and Senate committees, and they are set to come up for a vote by...

Using the “anti-terrorism” buzzword as the hook and a $120-per-year fee as the bait, Automotive Capital Group Inc. is hoping to draw subscribers to its Anti-Terrorism Program that incorporates Navicom...

LogicaCMG, an information systems provider, won a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) for a coastline charting system that will exploit Envisat radar images. Envisat is ESA’s flagship satellite...

DigitalGlobe released a new information product it says will help various government and private entities measure and manage storm-water runoff and help support the compliance of storm-water management regulations as...

Voom, the satellite television service provided by Rainbow DBS, upped the marketing ante against rivals Dish Network and DirecTV by giving away to its subscribers something for which subscribers to...

No, XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] has not landed the ultimate prize in the morning DJ market, shock-jock Howard Stern. It did, however, sign Bob Edwards to an exclusive deal —...

PanAmSat Corp. [SPOT] reported an increase in revenues and a decrease in net income for the second quarter of 2004. Revenues earned in the second quarter increased to $206.8 million...