Month: November 2005

The European Space Agency (ESA) is leading an initiative to help preserve the Earth’s wetlands using satellite-based observation data. Global wetlands, which sustain the most biologically diverse ecosystems around the...

Since being founded by a consortium of national telecommunications operators in 1997, Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Co. has built itself into a $1 billion regional mobile satellite telecommunications satellite system. Nearly...

The move by MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) to acquire the financially challenged Space & Technology/Montreal division of EMS Technologies Inc. drew a mixed reaction from the financial community....

SIRI While XM Satellite Radio has had a comfortable lead in terms of subscriber numbers, investors may be looking more favorably at Sirius Satellite Radio at the moment. The telling...

Worldspace Satellite Radio announced Nov. 3 availability of its service in Ahmedabad, India, the seventh largest city in the country. Ahmedabad has a population of nearly 4 million, including more...

Globalstar announced Nov. 1 it would offer simplex, or one-way, data services to customers throughout parts of the Caribbean, Central America and the northern part of South America via its...

U.K. satellite pay-TV operator BSkyB has teamed up with Vodafone to launch Sky Mobile TV to deliver broadcast video services to Vodafone mobile phone customers. There will be two Sky...

The Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group (SUIRG) launched an online, interactive database to consolidate and tracks incidents of satellite radio frequency interference within the geostationary arc, the organization announced. The...

Delphi Corp. delivered the first shipment of the new DS300 satellite transceiver modem to Stellar Satellite Communications, Delphi announced Nov.2. The modem, aimed at the asset-tracking market, delivers data via...

Spacedev Inc. closed the sale of $2.5 million of securities to Laurus Master Fund Ltd., the company announced Nov. 2. The proceeds from the sale will provide working capital, including...