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Doing business in the mobile satellite sector continues to be a challenging feat. The latest low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite system to face a cash squeeze is Orbcomm Global L.P. [ORB], the...

The Boeing Co. [BA] plans to eliminate the jobs of up to 900 workers who work on the Delta launchers and the C-17 military cargo plane in Huntington Beach, Calif.,...

NASA officials were all smiles June 30 when its next-generation of communications satellites successfully reached orbit aboard an Atlas 2A rocket. Marketed by International Launch Services (ILS), The Atlas 2A...

The much-delayed Russian-built Zvezda service module finally may reach the International Space Station (ISS) in a few weeks. Following a General Designer’s Review meeting in Moscow June 26, NASA and...

The Boeing Co. [BA] won a contract to launch Canada’s Radarsat 2 satellite aboard a Delta 2 rocket in three years. The launch is planned for April 2003, from Vandenberg...

MultiChoice, a South African supplier of pay-TV programming to 44 countries in Africa and adjacent islands, has leased three transponders on Eutelsat’s W4 satellite, which went into service on July...

Those entrepreneurs finalizing business plans in hopes of successfully entering the broadband market may want to pay close attention to the recent lesson PanAmSat Corp. [SPOT] learned when the FCC...

Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) announced a joint venture with APT Satellite Company Ltd. of Hong Kong, owner and operator of the three-satellite Apstar 1, 1A and 2R system. The agreement was...

Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] said it supplied 11 Qualcomm Inc. [QCOM] phones to the South Korean delegation to the recent Summit Meeting between the presidents of South and North Korea. South...

Orbcomm Global L.P. [ORB]announced the commercial availability of the Stellar Communications ST2500 GSM subscriber communicator (SC), which can use either GSM cellular systems that are widely used outside North American,...