Month: August 2004

Downward pressure on transponder pricing caused operating profits to slip at New Skies Satellites N.V. [NSK] during second-quarter 2004, compared with the same quarter last year. Two non-recurring events, including...

Raytheon [RTN] won a $1.6 billion, multiyear contract for a full-rate production (FRP) run of Tactical Tomahawk Block IV cruise missiles for the U.S. Navy and for Britain’s Royal Navy....

According to the 2004 J.D. Power And Associates Residential Cable/Satellite TV Customer Satisfaction Study, released today, satellite television subscription services received a higher overall customer satisfaction (723 on a 1,000-point...

EUMETSAT, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, inked a key deal in Austria to improve training materials for satellite meteorology. The project, named EUMeTrain, will create additional...

SES Americom today said its AMC-15 satellite has been delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in preparation for its scheduled Sept. 24 launch aboard a Proton launch vehicle. The...

Marlink, a subsidiary of Rockville, Md.-based Telenor Satellite Services, rolled out a new maritime communications service to provide global voice and advanced data communications to leisure boats, fishing vessels, coastal...

How many times have you caught the tail end of a bit on morning radio or the final seconds of a song you’ve been waiting to hear and then wished...

One of the early complaints about satellite radio in general was that people were paying for the service but they could only get it in their cars, making the investment...

Following the devastating effects of Hurricane Charley late last week, at least two satellite companies have stepped up to help in the aftermath. Globecomm Systems Inc. [GCOM] has provided satellite...

Raleigh, N.C.-based Microspace Communications, a provider of point-to-multipoint satellite services and the operator of a large business satellite network, was selected by the Christian Radio Consortium (CRC) to deliver programming...