Month: June 2005

Scopus Network Technologies, a provider of digital TV video networking, equipped Sri Lanka’s CBNSat with digital broadcast capabilities for its direct-to-home services. CBNSat’s new platform will distribute up to 18...

EMS Satcom, the Ottawa-based division of EMS Technologies, said it launched its interactive video aimed at giving clients the tools to install the company’s Fleet 55 satellite marine communication terminal....

Arianespace pushed back the launch of a pair of satellites due to an unspecified technical problem with the Telkom 2 spacecraft, Arianespace announced June 6. The launch of the Spaceway...

Cablevision Systems Corp. halted its contract with Lockheed Martin for satellites intended to broadcast high-definition television, the company said in a June 6 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange...

The AFX newswire reported June 5 that the U.K. government is considering a plan to use satellite technology to tax vehicles based on the amount of miles driven. The satellite...

Ukraine reached an agreement with the European Union (EU) to participate in the Galileo satellite navigation project, becoming the third non-EU country to join the program, the EU announced June...

Satellite control software developed by Harris Corp. has assumed control of the Quickbird commercial imagery satellite owned and operated by Digitalglobe, Harris announced June 6. Harris installed its OS/Comet-based Satellite...

Limoliner, a Massachusetts-based motor coach operator that offers service between New York City and Boston, installed a Tracvision A5 antenna on its 28-passenger luxury motor coach to bring DirecTV satellite...

iDirect Technologies launched its Global Edge Connect solution to deliver last-mile wireless connectivity via satellite. Global Edge Connect is a wireless Internet Service Provider solution that will incorporate a carrier-class,...

The commercial satellite industry generated $97.2 billion in revenues in 2004, up 6.7 percent from the previous year, according to the Satellite Industry Association‘s (SIA) “State of the Satellite Industry...