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Shin Satellite, the Thailand-based satellite operator, hopes to gets its ambitious iPSTAR broadband program moving this year. The operator plans to launch iPSTAR-1 in the middle of this year as […]

Week of Jan. 9-15, 2004 Percentage Change Symbol Jan. 15 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 2.74 (2.1) 6.6 22.9 15.1 […]

French firms ORCA Instrumentation and Advanced Concept and System Architecture (ACSA) have developed a GPS Intelligent Buoy (GIB) system designed to track underwater vehicles in real-time.GIB is a new concept […]

Paris-based satellite operator GlobeCast has signed a contract to deliver Vectone Entertainment Network‘s community channels – Vectone Urdu, Vectone Bangla, Vectone Tamil and Vectone Hindi – using Eutelsat‘s Eurobird and […]

The European Space Agency missions planned this year include the launch of the Rosetta spacecraft to the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in February, the mission of ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers to the […]

Two United Nations‘ agencies – the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Universal Postal Union (UPU) – are teaming with India to help boost the delivery of postal services to […]

Vancouver, Canada-based GPS Industries [OTCBB: GPSN], a provider of GPS-based golfing products, announced the installation of its Inforemer GPS-based golf solution at Noosa Springs Golf Club on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. […]

Alcatel Space, the satellite manufacturing arm of Paris-based Alcatel [NYSE: ALA], has received an order from the French defense procurement agency DGA to build a new military communications satellite called […]

Kevin N. McGrath has been named president and CEO of Digital Angel [AMEX: DOC], a So. St. Paul, Minn.-based location tracking company. Prior to joining Digital Angel, McGrath spent 16 […]

The International Space Business Council expects to release a report next week that predicts the space industry will reach $90 billion this year. Among the conclusions of the “‘2004 State […]

Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] and the U.S. Air Force (USAF) have begun renovations at Space Launch Complex 3E (SLC-3E) at Vandenberg Air Force Base to prepare the launch site for […]

When a major undersea cable recently failed, Intelsat was able to restore Internet services to all of Turkey within 38 hours, the company said. The high-speed connection to the Internet […]

Luxembourg-based SES Global [Luxembourg: SESG] has formed a new unit called Worldsat, which will operate as a unit of its U.S. subsidiary SES Americom. In addition, SES has signed a […]

HONOLULU–Cautious optimism and policy frustration top the list of emotions expressed by various satellite industry executives as they consider business initiatives for 2004 and beyond. During panel sessions here at […]

New York-based Loral Space & Communications [OTCBB: LRLSQ] announced that after its Jan. 10 launch, the Telstar 14/Estrela do Sul 1 communications satellite fully deployed its south solar array but […]

HONOLULU–The time has come for the Asia-Pacific region to fully open its doors to the international satellite business. Even though global satellite and network operators have made significant contributions within […]

Shin Satellite, a Thailand-based satellite operator, expects to launch its iPSTAR-1 broadband satellite in the middle of this year. The satellite will be part of the iPSTAR system, which will […]

Alcatel Space, the satellite manufacturing arm of Paris-based Alcatel [NYSE: ALA], has delivered the payload for the AM11 satellite to Russia’s NPO-PM, prime contractor for the Express AM satellites deployed […]

Telenor Satellite Services is adding VSAT services to its existing General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Telecommunications Service contract. This will enable U.S. government users to order customized C- and Ku-band […]

Connexion by Boeing, a business unit of Boeing [NYSE: BA], plans to expand its high-speed satellite broadband service for commercial aviation use to the maritime industry. The unit is in […]

NomadISP, a division of LinOra, and StarBand Communications have formed a strategic partnership to offer NomadISP’s AH-1 WiFi Hotspot product through StarBand’s satellite broadband dealer network. The partnership enables the […]

GlobalNet [OTCBB:GLBT] has successfully tested its pre-paid mobile satellite system, which serves Turkey, and areas to the south and east, including the eastern Mediterranean, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq. Initially, GlobalNet […]

Comtech Telecommunications’ [Nasdaq: CMTL] Maryland-based subsidiary Comtech Mobile Datacom has received $4.0 million in orders relating to its satellite-based movement tracking system, under an existing contract with the U.S. Army. […]

Telenor Satellite Services has signed a three-year agreement with Brittany Ferries to provide high-speed data communications via satellite. Under terms of the agreement, Telenor will provide Ku-band service for two […]

With consolidated revenues estimated at $6.15 billion in 2003, the 36 satellite operators of the fixed satellite service (FSS) industry experienced a slight fall in revenues (- 1 percent), as […]

HONOLULU–As telecom, broadcast, consumer and enterprise markets begin to recover from their recent business lows, the world’s global expendable launch vehicle (ELV) providers are poised to ramp up their launch […]

News Corp’s completion of its long-anticipated acquisition of Hughes Electronics [NYSE: GMH], its coveted satellite television unit DirecTV, and other subsidiaries offers a host of potential advantages for the combined […]

The two U.S. satellite radio service providers, Washington-based XM Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: XMSR] and New York-based Sirius Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: SIRI], demonstrated last year that fierce head-to-head competition can be […]

By David Hartshorn GENEVA – The recent World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS) – a United Nations initiative that aims to bridge the digital and knowledge divides — yielded […]

OptiStreams, a Fresno, Calif.-based private satellite network provider, has introduced a new line of wired and wireless networking hardware designed for consumer, small office/home office and small business users of […]