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By Theresa Foley By year end, the satellite industry will know whether 2000 will be remembered as the launching point for massive new satellite broadband services, or as the second...

By Mark Crossman and Anh Steininger During an investor meeting held in New York on May 16th, Loral informed investors and analysts of the company’s progress since the end of...

By James Careless If there’s something most satellite service providers don’t worry about it’s hackers. Small wonder, says Simon Bull, senior consultant at Comsys, the U.K.-based publisher of the annual...

By Clayton Mowry Rocket launches, as well as the risks they convey, are part of most satellite executives’ daily lives. Without these expendable launch vehicles (ELVs), we’d have no way...

By Peter Brown Well-established VSAT hardware vendors, satellite operators and other satellite solution providers are starting to roll out a long list of new satellite-based Internet access platforms and services...

Wayne Kauffman has joined Spectrum Astro Inc. as director of West Coast operations, responsible for managing the Manhattan Beach, Calif., office. He will be the company’s liaison with its West...

The Orbital Imaging Corp. subsidiary of Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] will participate in the Geography Network, an Internet-based global marketplace for geographic data and services. Orbimage will supply its high-resolution,...

Technicians at Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK] completed qualification testing of the solid rocket booster motor that will be used as rocket boosters with The Boeing Co.’s [BA] new Delta 4...

Orbital Sciences Corp.’s [ORB] majority-owned Canadian subsidiary, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), has won a $50 million contract for the next-generation robotic arm on the International Space Station. The...

Even though the aviation industry continues to hold the cornerstone for Global Positioning System applications, end users outside the cockpit are not only realizing the value of this satellite technology,...