Month: August 2004

Officials at Annapolis, Md.-based ARINC said they are preparing to rollout a comparatively low-cost, satellite-based broadband data service onboard commercial aircraft to challenge the Connexion by Boeing that inaugurated revenue-generating...

DigitalGlobe was awarded a contract from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to update the agency’s ortho-imagery base program. Under the contract, DigitalGlobe said it will provide 2-foot resolution, ortho-rectified,...

Australian giant Telstra [TLS], like other phone companies around the world, is struggling with declining payphone revenues due to increased use of cellphones. As such, it is running a trial...

Globecomm Systems Inc. [GCOM] inked a follow-on contract from an existing, unidentified customer for $1.9 million. The first contract, signed in July 2003, was worth $8.3 million and was sought...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said Aug. 27 that PanAmSat Licensee Corp. has filed a request for a 180-day extension of its special temporary authority to operate the Galaxy 9...

The expected sale of Germantown, Md.-based Hughes Network Systems by The DirecTV Group [DTV], of El Segundo, Calif., is likely to be finalized next month, and a strong possibility exists...

Global, in-flight broadband connectivity is one service that must use satellites. Unlike multi-channel video, voice services and radio, there is no alternative technology that can offer broadband connectivity across the...

The global satellite industry has been working for more than a year to develop guidelines to present to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for passage next month in Geneva. If...

On the island of Puerto Rico where terrestrial-based, conventional Internet access often is cost-prohibitive and unreliable for educators, SES Americom, the U.S. satellite arm of Luxembourg-based SES Global, today announced...

International Launch Services (ILS) rescheduled the launch of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) satellite, used for national security activities, for today at 6:53 p.m. EST from the Cape Canaveral Air...