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By Paul Dykewicz PanAmSat President and CEO Joseph Wright, noted for his financial conservatism and cost-cutting, recently told me he isn’t worried at all about taking on a large debt […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Raytheon [RTN] were pacing the floor late Friday afternoon, waiting to hear which one would win a $6.2 billion U.S. Department of Defense satellite-communications contract (SN, […]

Satellite TV’s advantage of offering digital video signals since the mid-1990s is waning because the $70 billion the big cable-TV operators have spent on the technology is allowing those carriers […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] is pursuing U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) communications networking business opportunities that depend on satellites. Last week, Boeing showed it was willing to invest in innovative […]

Satellite Today has learned that the European Space Agency‘s European Space Research and Technology Center is testing the design-worthiness of an experimental Galileo satellite built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. […]

Modern Times Group, (MTG), the owner of the Viasat direct-to-home (DTH) platform, is claiming a key victory over its Nordic DTH rival Canal Digital. It just announced that its application […]

CapRock Communications is the primary corporate sponsor of a project headed by a team of students at the University of Louisiana that is preparing to send a picosatellite (a small […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] has made some aggressive moves in targeting work from the U.S. Department of Defense, demonstrating a new mobile theater-of-operations directional communications technology that can give soldiers […]

ATK [ATK] completed its acquisition of the PSI Group following a review of the transaction by the Federal Trade Commission. PSI is a components designer and manufacturer for military and […]

SKY Television of New Zealand signed a five-year deal with New Zealand Cricket that gives it exclusive rights to all international and domestic cricket games until 2009. John Fellet, SKY […]

Satellite Today has learned that Russia is expected to, within a month, send a proposal to South Korea that calls for a technology transfer to South Korea that would allow […]

Vienna, Va.-based Tachyon Networks, a satellite broadband communications service provider for business and government users, is upgrading its network to deliver 512 kilobits per second (Kbps) remote transmission speeds to […]

The San Diego Telecom Council named ViaSat one of the winners in its first annual “Innovators In Telecommunications” awards. ViaSat won for its launch of the first DOCSIS-based, satellite-IP-delivery system. […]

Integral Systems Inc. [ISYS] inked a contract with SingTel Optus to expand the Optus C1 satellite control system to include support for the Optus D1 and D2 satellites. Under the […]

Eagle Broadband Inc. [EAG] said Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) received approval from the General Services Administration to add Eagle’s SatMAX non-line-of-sight (NLOS) satellite communications repeater system to SAIC’s GSA […]

MultiChoice Africa, a pan-African DTH platform, is potentially two years away from launching a high-definition (HD) channel in South Africa. MultiChoice CEO Nolo Letele told Satellite Today, “We recognize that, […]

Long Beach, Calif.-based Sea Launch has been selected to launch PanAmSat‘s Galaxy 16 communication satellite from a sea-based launch site on the Equator. The agreement calls for Sea Launch to […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Air Force gave a $8 million contract to Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) that calls for SpaceX to demonstrate a […]

Conax, the Norway-based Conditional Access (CA) supplier, signed its second key contract in China through its partnership with Star Communication Network Technology (STAR). STAR is Conax’ strategic partner in the […]

Massachusetts will join a growing list of states using GPS technology to track the whereabouts of sex offenders who are on parole or on probation. According to reports, nearly 219 […]

Antenna Technology Communications Inc. (ATCi) unveiled a new family of solid-state C- and Ku-band VSAT transceivers designed for both indoor and outdoor use under a variety of operating temperatures. No […]

Satellite Today has learned that India’s space agency yesterday successfully launched that country’s first satellite for educational services from the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) spaceport in Sriharikota on board […]

South Africa’s Telkom SA Limited chose Atlanta-based ILC‘s network-control software to monitor and control satellite earth stations. The new satellite Network Element Management System (NEMS) is intended to add momentum […]

A slew of big events this year have spurred occasional-use transponder demand. One of the big beneficiaries of the clarion cry for capacity in North America has been Princeton, N.J.-based […]

Editor’s Note: This week we are introducing the following value-added feature to assist you in tracking regulatory developments. Who’s Doing What? What To Expect Near-Term What It All Means XM […]

It’s been a hectic year in the satellite sector, with some of the biggest operators in the business now sporting new ownership. Private-equity (PE) firms that have acquired stakes in […]

The top officers of large FSS operators who spoke at Euroconsult’s 8th World Summit For Satellite Financing in Paris voiced no surprise with forecasts of much tougher capital- expenditure parameters […]

By J. Armand Musey The dominant sectors in the satellite industry, fixed satellite services (FSS) and direct-broadcast-satellite (DBS) services, are entering a mature growth phase. The level of growth is […]

The Space Systems Division of ITT Industries Inc. [ITT] was chosen by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop, manufacture and test an advanced imager for the next […]

Teamwork between two industry providers of mobile-satellite voice services onboard aircraft led to the unveiling of a new study that shows higher demand than expected among passengers for such services. […]