Month: February 2005

Iridium Satellite LLC said its subscriber number grew to more than 114,000 in 2004, a 22.5 percent increase above its total number of subscribers at the end of 2003. Company...

Washington, D.C.-based industry association Women in Aerospace (WIA) will be hosting a panel discussion examining what steps have been taken in the last year to bring the Vision for Space...

Multichoice, a pay-TV provider announced that MTV Base, the first pan-African music channel, was launched on its DStv platform. The channel will be broadcast via satellite to 48 countries in...

The Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) announced the five people that will be inducted into the Satellite Hall Of Fame at an invitational ceremony on March 23: Steven Dorfman,...

According to a Feb. 22 report by Asia Pulse, the launch of the Telkom-2 satellite for PT Telkom Indonesia Tbk has been delayed until April 15. The satellite was initially...

DigitalGlobe said Apache Corp. joined its Enterprise Partners Program, a mechanism that streamlines access to geospatial products and provides data viewing and ordering capabilities at the desktop. Apache will use...

ViaSat said it finalized a contract to supply its SurfBeam broadband satellite networking system to Mexico-based content and Internet applications provider Pegaso Banda Ancha for consumer Internet access services in...

CapRock Communications said it completed the expansion of its IPxpress core network to its Macae, Brazil teleport. IPxpress is CapRock’s Internet Protocol (IP)-based core network architecture that employs multi-protocol label...

Wegener Corp. said it recently received a $700,000 order from Roberts Communications Network for equipment to expand its direct-to-home (DTH) small dish satellite delivery platform. The equipment is being used...

SES Global reported a slight decline in the company’s revenue for 2004 to 1.1 billion euros ($1.4 billion) from 1.2 billion euros ($1.6 billion) in 2003. The one percent drop...