Month: August 2004

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...

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 telco Optus is expecting its new broadband satellite product to usher in a new dawn for satellite communications in Australia. The operator launched its Optus Broadband Satellite product last...

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...

Satellite Today learned that the U.S. Air Force awarded a $54 million launch contract to The Boeing Co. [BA] that calls for the use of four Delta II rockets to...

Warren Hardy, managing director of Optus Wholesale and Satellite, is optimistic that his company’s recently launched satellite broadband product will prove to be a hit in rural and remote Australia,...

Bethesda, Md.-based Iridium Satellite LLC, a global, mobile satellite communications service provider, is in the process of developing a next-generation handset that could offer improved service. Iridium, currently averaging subscriber...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted PanAmSat Corp. conditional authority to operate the C-band communications payload and the Ku-band telemetry, tracking and command stations aboard its PAS-9 satellite from the...

According to the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC), a U.S. bankruptcy judge approved its final settlement of legal disputes brought by Pegasus Satellite Television against the group. NRTC added that...

CenturyTel Inc. [CTL] and EchoStar Communications Corp. [DISH] inked a strategic partnership that will allow CenturyTel to bundle its services with EchoStar’s Dish Network direct-to-home (DTH) satellite television service in...