Month: February 2005

Space Systems/Loral announced it completed all assembly, integration and tests of the DirecTV 8 satellite more than two months ahead of the contracted schedule. The DirecTV 8 satellite, built for...

Only a few years ago, Iridium Satellite LLC, like others in the Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) sector was teetering on the edge of extinction. But Iridium Satellite LLC is showing...

iDirect Technologies introduced the latest addition to its product platform: the iDirect Compression and Acceleration Server (CAS) technology. The CAS solution compresses and accelerates static and dynamic data and content,...

Gilat Satellite Networks CEO Shlomo Rodav is confident the company is in a position to derive strong revenue growth in the next few years. In its last full year results...

By Robert Bell Pier du Plessis is South African by birth and a turnaround artist by trade. With a background in sales, marketing, finance and accountancy, he worked for several...

ABC Companies, which sells and leases new and pre-owned highway coaches, said it entered into an agreement with Fleet Management Solutions (FMS) under which FMS will provide ABC a satellite-based...

In what is a continuation of its trend to build a strong content offering, Sirius Satellite Radio announced last week that it signed an agreement giving the company exclusive North...

Digital+, the direct-to-home (DTH) platform in Spain, announced a subscriber growth for the first time in a number of quarters. At the end of December 2004, the operator had more...

Gilat Satellite Networks Chairman and CEO Shlomo Rodav is confident the company can increase its overall revenues in 2005 and that the company can soon return to profitability. Gilat has...

Row 44 said it signed an exclusive agreement with Hughes Network Systems to bring satellite broadband connectivity to North American commercial and business aircraft. Row 44 will use HNS’ Direcway...