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Intelsat is preparing to pursue its long-anticipated initial public stock offering (IPO) at a time when the market for such transactions appears to be recovering. The plan is for Intelsat...

Joe Wright, the president and CEO of Wilton, Conn.-based PanAmSat [Nasdaq: SPOT], characterized his company during last week’s earnings conference call as the world’s top-performing and best-positioned fixed satellite services...

Hybrid services are changing the shape of the satellite industry and causing a ripple effect in the regulatory arena. Satellite, wireless, wireline, Wi-Fi, and fiber-optic cable technologies are being used...

Satellite-based video services are expected to help save lives through a Houston-based program jointly operated by the U.S. Army, Texas A&M University and the University of Texas Health Science Center...

By Maury Mechanick As the satellite industry emerges from its most recent downturn, a number of new opportunities and threats loom on the horizon. Among these, voice over Internet Protocol...

Despite bankruptcy at its parent company, Space Systems/ Loral (SS/L) has picked up some key satellite manufacturing orders recently, most notably in October from DirecTV. The turnaround has clearly been...

Week of Jan. 30 – Feb. 5, 2004 Percentage Change Symbol Feb. 5 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 2.41 (12.7)...

Mayflower Communications, a Burlington, Mass.-based developer of GPS and communication data link technologies, has been awarded a small business innovation research Phase III contract totaling $10.4 million from the Naval...

President Bush’s fiscal year 2005 budget contains a $59.8 billion request for information technology spending, an increase of less than 1 percent over the previous year’s request, indicating a major...

Engineered Support Systems‘ [Nasdaq: EASI] subsidiary Technical and Management Services Corp. (TAMSCO) of Calverton, Md., has been awarded a contract to support Iraq’s Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in command and...