Archive

Westar Satellite Services and Helius Inc. signed a strategic alliance agreement under which the two companies will offer a service that allows for the delivery of high-quality video streams to...

Spacehab Inc. said that John Satrom, senior vice president and general manager of its Astrotech Space Operations subsidiary, has decided to leave the company to pursue other interests. Jim Royston...

After two delays for a combination of weather and technical reasons, NASA‘s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was successfully launched Aug. 12 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft...

Preliminary analysis from a failure review board (FRB) examining the January Intelsat IS-804 failure suggests root cause of the failure is note unique to this satellite. Instead, there could be...

Conditional access technology vendor NDS will play a key role in developing the direct-to-home (DTH) market in India, Alex Gersh, the company’s chief financial offer, said. NDS will be providing...

In an effort to counter potential terrorists, increasingly sophisticated pirates and smugglers, Zoca Container Security BV is gearing up for the commercial release of a new marine shipping container security...

Teles Wireless Broadband Managing Director Andreas Kruger believes the United Kingdom is a potentially lucrative market for satellite broadband services. The company hopes to exploit the success of BSkyB in...

If the Chinese government is going to achieve its goal of analog signal switch-off by 2015, then satellite will play a key role, an industry analyst said. However, the satellite...

An Ariane 5 rocket lofted the long-awaited Shin Satellite Plc‘s IPStar satellite into orbit Aug. 11, Arianespace announced. The spacecraft, with a launch mass of 6,485 kilograms, is the largest...

Xantic received a contract from NATO to provide Inmarsat services for deployed forces, the company announced Aug. 11. Under the agreement with the NATO Consultation, Command & Control Agency, Xantic...