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The financial performance of fixed satellite operators is hamstrung by a lingering overcapacity problem that generally will exceed demand for years to come. Such is the view of two industry...

Industry CEOs voiced an uncharacteristically bullish view of their companies’ prospects for the next year during a panel discussion at the Satellite 2004 conference’s one-day financial forum Tuesday in Washington,...

Vance Coffman, CEO of Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT], has decided to retire from the company this summer after devoting the last 37 years to it. He made his surprise announcement...

CableVision Systems Corp. [CVC] blames its fourth-quarter losses on the cost of launching its VOOM direct-broadcast satellite service in October 2003, with a bit of help from higher depreciation and...

NDS company Visionik is launching two advanced interactive games to be deployed on Discovery Kids in the UK. The two interactive games, Mystery Hunters and Chomp are free to play,...

New Skies Satellites N.V. [NSK], headquartered in The Hague, The Netherlands, introduced a new software tool yesterday that will provide customers of its Ipsys software enhanced control in managing their...

The European Space Agency‘s $1.25 billion Rosetta probe finally began its mission to hunt a comet in the depths of the solar system and to shadow it around the Sun...

by Gerry Oberst What is it about satellite broadcasting that attracts politicians with taxes on their minds? Tax proposals continue to bubble up in both the United States and in...

By Peter J. Brown Beaming Internet Protocol (IP) video via satellite either live or via the store-and-forward method for both fixed and mobile services is no longer a rare event....

By Nick Mitsis As 2003 began, executives at Viasat Inc. were holding their collective breath. Wrapping up one of the most economically negative years since the company’s inception in 1986,...