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The Japanese Ministry of Transport and the Japanese Meteorological Agency have begun their procurement of a second satellite in their new series of MTSat combined air traffic control and weather...

Raytheon Co. [RTNA] has won a contract to provide the Advanced Meteorological Imager for Japan’s MTSat 1R, a combined weather and air traffic control satellite for the Japanese Ministry of...

Business development executives seeking profits from the Internet-via-satellite marketplace need to focus on e-commerce opportunities in the right geographic locations if projections are accurate according to a new study. Currently,...

Air travel soon will become more pleasurable. At least that is the hope of The Boeing Co. [BA] officials who, on April 27, unveiled a new business segment. Called Connexion...

AssureSat Inc., a company established to provide satellites in orbit to step in when there is a launch failure or a satellite already in service fails, has awarded Space Systems/Loral...

by James Careless Everything comes with a price and that includes success. No one knows this better than the professionals in the satellite earth station market. It’s been experiencing explosive...

by Clayton Mowry The thrill is gone. Our 15 minutes is over. Satellites are old news. According to the word on the street, the hype and excitement that surrounded the...

By Theresa Foley The debate over bent pipe versus onboard processing is picking up steam as the dozen or so satellite broadband projects come closer to fruition. If William Shakespeare...

By Robert Nelson Rain affects the transmission of an electromagnetic signal in three ways: (1) It attenuates the signal; (2) it increases the system noise temperature; and (3) it changes...

by Peter J. Brown As the U.S. cable TV industry deploys high-speed, two-way hybrid fiber-coax (HFC) networks, the use of satellite-based distribution is expanding despite the increasing presence of fiber....