Connectivity

There was certainly plenty of give-and-take, even if no consensus as to where the market was going. But the disparity of opinion was definitive about one thing, at least: When...

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) awarded contracts to International Launch Services Inc. (ILS) and Sea Launch Co. to launch next-generation satellites, ILS and Sea Launch announced May 15. The ILS agreement...

A small California start-up hopes to succeed where industry giant Boeing Co. failed with its Connexion satellite Internet service for aircraft. Row 44 will begin testing a high-speed satellite broadband...

Dear [Editor]: While I was pleased to see coverage of our first quarter results in Satellite News on May 14th, 2007, I was somewhat surprised to read the following in...

BT is confident that satellite services and technology will play a pivotal role as it looks to grow its telecoms business in Latin America. The operator recently acquired Comsat International,...

Intelsat Intelsat Ltd. reported revenue growth of 85 percent in the first quarter of 2007 but posted a loss of $115.1 million due to the acquisition of PanAmSat, Intelsat announced...

Shin Satellite has continued to struggle with its IPStar strategy, according to the company’s first quarter numbers released May 14. The satellite operator reported about 75,000 IPStar customers after adding...

The announcement that Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) will manufacture the NSS-12 spacecraft for SES New Skies came as small but further indication of the overall health of SS/L’s parent company just...

Assertions made last week by the director of the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) that some censorship of satellite imagery might be necessary for national or military defense stirred questions...

SES Global excited analysts in early May when the company revealed that it expected to realize cost savings on future satellites by focusing on its procurement process. "It is obviously...