Connectivity

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) will provide a data reception and transmission subsystem that will be used in an advanced solution for two Yamal-300 satellites for Russian operator Gascom....

Set-top box manufacturer Pace Micro Technology named Stuart Hall as its new CFO. Hall will join Pace in April, succeeding David Brocksom. Damien Wilkinson, Pace’s group financial controller, will head...

Intelsat Ltd. plans to offer about $600 million of senior notes due 2015, the company announced Jan. 8. The net proceeds will be used, along with cash on hand, to...

BCE, LORL The Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) businesses of Loral Space & Communications Inc. and Telesat Canada will be combined under a new Canadian company that will become the fourth...

Moving to position itself to meet growing commercial demand for high-resolution satellite imagery, DigitalGlobe awarded Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. a contract to build the WorldView 2 satellite, DigitalGlobe announced...

Moving to position itself to meet growing commercial demand for high-resolution satellite imagery, DigitalGlobe awarded Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. a contract to build the WorldView 2 satellite, DigitalGlobe announced...

With demand for satellite services growing, Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. would like to see better performance from its Spacenet Inc. services group. To accomplish this, Gilat has rebuilt Spacenet’s executive...

The resurgence of Mobile Satellite Services (MSS), an industry and Wall Street pariah after the bankruptcies of Iridium, Globalstar and ICO in the late 1990s, was one of the major...

The consumer love affair with high definition (HD) shows no signs of slowing, and even looks to be picking up heading into 2007. With the price of HD-capable TV sets...

To compete in the evolving communications market, satellite operators must provide faster, more reliable and more advanced services. One of the methods for meeting this need is the flexible satellite,...