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Saudi financier Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, nephew of Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd, has said that he is potentially interested in becoming an investor in News Corp’s satellite television spin-off, Sky […]

Intersputnik (international organisation for space communications) revealed in Moscow that it intends to launch some 100 small telecommunication satellites, each of 500kg in weight. These satellites will be used for […]

The Czech Republic has approved draft legislation that sees it harmonise local regulations that affect satellite and cable broadcasters. Jan Pelcova from the government office press department says various amendments […]

Hong Kong-based AsiaSat (half-controlled by Astra) has negotiated a US$250 million (E297.97m) syndicated loan to part-finance the building of AsiaSat 4 and 5. AsiaSat 4 will be positioned at the […]

SpaceBridge announce the completion of $17 million in second round financing led by RBC Dominion Securities. Principal investors in this round include Royal Bank Capital Partners, TRW Inc. [TRW], MWI […]

On Nov. 17, Russian officials gave their first decree to a proposal that aims to deorbit the Russian Space Station Mir in February. The general director of the Russian Space […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] and Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] won Air Force contracts to conduct architectural studies for GPS 3, the system that will keep U.S. satellite-based navigation services operational […]

Two remote sensing satellites, and a nanosatellite designed to gather space weather data, were launched into orbit Nov. 21 aboard a Boeing Co. [BA]- built Delta 2 rocket. The rocket […]

TRW Space and Electronics Group within TRW Inc. [TRW] said it has developed a miniature frequency upconverter for the communications payload on the Ka-band satellites it is building as its […]

Integral Technologies Inc. [ITKG] of Bellingham, Wash., said the second-generation, flat-panel, dual-satellite antenna developed by its Antek Wireless Inc. subsidiary has been selected by Orbital Communications Corp. (Orbcomm) for use […]

Conexion by Boeing, the satellite-based aero-mobile Internet, broadband data and TV system being built by The Boeing Co. [BA], said it will lease 14 transponders on a Brazilian satellite in […]

While industry leaders were gathered in San Diego last week discussing the potential of the Internet via satellite Starband Communications Inc. was busy launching its direct-to-home service. StarBand initially will […]

Following News Corp’s disappointing quarterly results announcement on November 8, and an 11.8 per cent single day drop in News Corp’s stock price to $38 (E44.21) a share, it is […]

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 90 degreesE: Yamal 102 D – Turkmen TV’s three TV channels and […]

The size and mass of geostationary communications/broadcasting/broadband satellites is increasing sharply over the near term. Thuraya-1’s lift-off mass of 5,108kg might have been the world’s heaviest single payload when it […]

Middle East platform Arab Radio & Television (ART) has started to call itself Arab Digital Distribution (ADD) and last week relaunched its Arabic bouquet (Firstnet) with additional channels for ArabSat […]

The Astra 2B satellite has entered active service for operator Société Européenne des Satellites (SES) at the Luxembourg-based company’s orbital slot at 28.2 degrees East. SES said Astra 2B features […]

Italian pay-TV operator Stream has reported that losses almost doubled in the first half of 2000 to L302 billion from L152 billion (E78.50m) in the same period last year, despite […]

Star TV has been granted Pakistan’s first pay-TV licence. It means Star is able to distribute its full bouquet of pay TV services to viewers in Pakistan. James Murdoch, chairman […]

The stock price of Hong Kong-based AsiaSat has fallen again dramatically despite the company (which is 50 per cent owned by SES/Astra) reporting improved sales and profits. “We report the […]

By Theresa Foley In the last three years, Internet service providers (ISPs) have developed into a promising new customer sector for satellite service providers. Large U.S. consumer ISPs like AOL, […]

by Peter J. Brown In the ISP world, a new paradigm–“Deliver Data, View Video”–has taken hold, and the broadcast or point-to-multipoint advantages of Internet Protocol (IP)-based transmissions via satellite are […]

By Robert Wold The reviews are in. Some oracles opined that the Olympics are now “as much about television and show business as they are about sports, and have been […]

by Peter J. Brown Business television (BTV) has been around for years, serving as an essential tool for multi-site enterprises. Today, dozens of these networks are in operation, and satellite […]

by Clayton Mowry If you’ve paid any attention to telecommunications industry trends over the past few years, you already know that data will be a big part of satellites’ future. […]

by Gerry Oberst Could disputes over how countries make satellite spectrum allocation decisions ripen into trade disputes? Ever since the agreement on basic telecommunications was reached through the World Trade […]

by Marc Crossman and Aileen Chen Hughes Electronics has, in the past couple of years, shown strong fundamentals due mostly to the strength of its direct broadcasting services (DBS) business, […]

Two cosmonauts and an astronaut were launched to the International Space Station Oct.31, pioneering a new trend in human space exploration and development. A Soyuz TM-31 rocket roared toward space […]

Less than a month after restructuring its rocket program, Andrew Beal, founder and CEO of Beal Aerospace Technologies Inc., stopped production and called it a day for his low-cost rocket. […]

In an effort to reduce the price to space, NASA is pushing forward with proposal requests for the second-generation reusable launch vehicle program. “Technologies developed and tested under the Second […]