Connectivity

When Satellite News last spoke to Thuraya CEO, Yousuf Al Sayed, it was in the immediate aftermath of the NSS-8 launch failure, and the potential impact of when its Thuraya-3 […]

A star-crossed start of the year for Sea Launch saw the launch provider take another hit with the March 1 announcement that Arianespace has been retained to launch the Spaceway-3 […]

Shin Satellite had a tough year in 2006, reporting a net loss of Baht 46 million ($1.3 million). However, the operator said this was down to Thaicom 3’s write-off of […]

If Sirius Satellite Radio CEO Mel Karmazin is to win the hearts and minds of federal regulators in Washington, he may first have to remind them which year it is. […]

Loral Space & Communications completed a sale of $300 million of stock to MHR Fund Management LLC, Loral’s largest shareholder, Loral announced Feb. 27. The deal was announced in October […]

It is, quite simply, a spectacular 18 seconds of video. The explosion that destroyed Sea Launch’s Zenit-3SL rocket and SES New Skies’ NSS-8 satellite, creating a fireball that engulfed the […]

A little more than year after completing its initial public offering, Eutelsat is undergoing significant ownership changes as the satellite operator’s private equity holders sell their stakes. Spanish industrial group […]

In June 1997, then-U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Reed Hundt called a hypothetical merger between AT&T and one of the regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs) spun off in the […]

Patrick DeWitt has ridden the ups and downs of the satellite manufacturing industry throughout his nearly 35 years at Space Systems/Loral (SS/L). Now he has led SS/L to the top […]

Not so long ago, the highlights of an in-flight experience were prepackaged meal, the drink trolley and a few magazines. With luck, there may have been an in-flight movie. Now […]

Satellite-based services support everything from pay TV and cellular phone services to robust broadband and niche VSAT markets throughout Africa. While the market is growing, Africa remains a continent where […]

Internet Protocol (IP)-based virtual private networks (VPNs) have become more popular as companies realize that when it comes to secure and reliable  networking, owning a dedicated network is not the […]

A week after the unveiling of the proposed merger of Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio, consensus about its prospects and possibilities remained muddled as federal officials prepare to […]

[2/19/07 edition] Iridium Satellite will spend more than $2 billion to build and deploy its second-generation satellite constellation, dubbed Iridium Next, the company announced Feb. 15. Plans call for the […]

[2/19/07 edition] SES Global has agreed to repurchase 103.1 million shares of SES from GE in a transaction valued at 1.2 billion euros ($1.6 billion), SES announced Feb. 14. In […]

Worldspace Satellite Radio has licensed Certicom’s conditional access system to secure Worldspace’s satellite digital radio-based broadcast services for the European market, Certicom announced Feb, 5. Worldspace plans to roll out […]

Iridium Satellite has appointed eight new value-added partners offering Iridium-based products and services for remote asset management and other machine-to-machine data applications, Iridium announced Feb. 9. Among new resellers are […]

Anaren Inc. will develop and produce the integrated beamforming assemblies for the Globalstar-2 satellite payload, Anaren announced Feb. 7. The contract, awarded by prime contractor Alcatel Alenia Space, is valued […]

Despite initially losing the key soccer (Bundesliga) rights in Germany, pay-TV operator Premiere has bounced back in style, ending 2006 with a subscription base totalling just shy of 3,410,000 million. […]

Degraded performance from Globalstar’s constellation of satellites led the company to warn its customers that they may lose two-way voice and data service as early as next year. Many of […]

There was a flurry of activity among pay-TV players as the week closed in the United Kingdom, with Virgin Media (formerly ntl) announcing its arrival and BSkyB launching a new […]

While satellite radio has blazed a trail in the United States, it is still amidst its early days in Europe, although there have been one or two significant recent developments. […]

The dramatic launch failure of the NSS-8 satellite means business plans will have to be altered throughout the the length and breadth of the satellite industry. SES New Skies has […]

BSkyB’s results released this week saw strong subscriber growth once again with the operator now at over 8.4 million subscribers. However, one of the main talking points among analysts was […]

Founded in 1985, the European PressPhoto Agency (EPA) covers international news and events and provides a fast and reliable photo delivery to key customers. In May 2003, the EPA expanded […]

The December announcement that Loral Space and Communications and a Canadian public pension fund will purchase Telesat Canada from Bell Canada Enterprises should not have surprised industry observers. In December, […]

There were many notable performances in a year that saw the satellite industry continue its overall resurgence in the face of ever-growing expectations. But four executives stood out in a […]

It is no secret that the satellite market in Latin America has been depressed for a number of years. Struggling economies, currency devaluations and a strict regulatory climate have kept […]

Interest in satellite communication services jumped in the wake of the 2005 hurricane season in the United States. In many ways, that interest phased out in 2006 due to a […]

When a corporation generates time-sensitive production information in the field that equates to millions of dollars in sales, it is paramount to have reliable, secure network connectivity. Add the requirements […]