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By David Hartshorn This time last year, they said it couldn’t be done. The idea seemed simple enough: Draw upon the combined resources of the Global VSAT Forum membership–nearly 100...

By Katie McConnell The Canadian satellite industry has changed a great deal over the years. Gone are the days of large prime contractors funded by government projects. Today, the Canadian...

Telesat Canada is a company that was originally formed as a domestic satellite organization to provide basic services to all Canadians. In 1969, when the company was formed, the government...

By Rob Fernandez Few would dispute that the Internet has swept up the satellite industry as it has everything else within its broad reach. While the nature of satellite technology...

By Theresa Foley The coming wave of new broadband satellites would be useless without comparable advances in user terminals, and earth station developers have a number of impressive advanced antenna...

InSight Telecommunications Corp. of Boston has agreed to sell, schedule and service the 24 Ku-band transponders on the GE 2 satellite that previously was used by Primestar. The agreement for...

StarBand Communications Inc., formerly Gilat-To-Home, which is building a DBS Internet service, will supply its users with e-mail and messaging through and agreement with Commtouch Software Ltd. [CTCH] of Mountain...

Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] said that it has agreed to sell its Fairchild Defense electronics business, which supplies avionics for military aircraft, to a U.S. subsidiary of Smiths Industries plc,...

Arianespace racked up another dual-satellite launch Sept. 14 by an Ariane 5 vehicle. The rocket lifted off at 6:49 p.m. EDT carrying the Astra 2B and GE 7 satellites and...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) successfully launched its newest polar-orbiting weather satellite Sept. 21 from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Titan 2 rocket. NOAA L is the...