Finance

The launch services marketplace always has been a tough place to earn a living. These days, there is a combination of strong demand and heavy backload, high barriers to entry,...

[Satellite News 01-25-10] U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), chair of the U.S. Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee, is pushing back against President Obama’s proposed 2010 fiscal year NASA budget due to...

[Satellite News 12-22-09] The global recession may have dominated global business plans and future outlooks in 2009, but the satellite industry finds itself standing at the end of one of...

[Satellite News 12-09-09] Arianespace is on schedule to introduce its new medium-lift launch service in 2010, according to CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall, who celebrated the company’s 30th anniversary at its...

On Nov. 14 2008, it was announced that the Eurozone (European Union Member States) had gone into recession, and on Nov. 27, the European (EU) unveiled the EU Recovery Plan...

Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) will acquire Mabuhay Satellite Corp. (MSC), ABS announced Nov. 6.     ABS will gain MSC’s Agila-2 satellite, built by Space Systems/Loral  and launched in August 1997....

GlobeCast has equipped French multi-hull yacht Crêpes Whaou with a GlobeCast Content Exchange solution for the Transat Jacques Vabre, a transatlantic sailing competition, GlobeCast announced Nov. 6.     The solution...

SpeedCast, a subsidiary of AsiaSat, is a multi-faceted service provider in Asia specializing in delivering to land or sea communications solutions ranging from broadband Internet to managed bandwidth to triple-play...

Richard Deasington, director of vertical markets for iDirect, says the market for VSAT communications is expanding rapidly as vessels require a growing number of business applications. “Traditionally, deploying VSAT required...

With Offshore Communications 2009 in the rear-view mirror, its time to look ahead to 2010 and try to figure out what role satellite will play in the maritime, shipping and...