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A flair of entrepreneurial spirit rocked the aerospace industry May 17 when the five-member Web start-up company Dreamtime Holdings Inc. snagged a NASA contract to commercialize the agency’s 85-year-old film […]

The Atlas 3A rocket, powered by new Russian-built RD-180 engine, successfully completed its maiden flight May 24 by carrying the Eutelsat W4 satellite into the proper orbit after liftoff from […]

With all the buzz swirling around the Internet via satellite sector, one would think contracts totaling approximately $16 million won by NetSat Express Inc. would spark an interest in its […]

Akamai Technologies Inc. [AKAM] of Cambridge, Mass., has announced two major programs to deliver Internet content by satellite – one with Loral Corp. [LOR], the other with Cidera Inc. Loral […]

SSE Telecom Inc. [SSET] of Fremont, Calif., and Harmonic Data Systems Ltd. (HDS) have agreed that SSE will provide its VSAT earth stations to HDS’s customers for two-way Internet access. […]

Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] could very well end up being the little mobile satellite company that could. In spite of a slow start and mounting criticism from the financial community, the […]

Orbcomm de Mexico, the Orbital Communications Corp. [ORB] licensee for Mexico and most of Central America, has received its license from the Mexican Secretaria de Communicaciones y Transportes and launched […]

The death of Irving Goldstein last Friday has led key industry officials to recall the substantial contributions he made to the satellite industry at critical times during its development. As […]

TYSON’S CORNER, Va.–The single most important way to trim the cost of obtaining Internet services via satellite is to avoid downtime from technical glitches, said Kay Sears, vice president of […]

Forcing Mobile Satellites to Provide Data Service Over the past decade the digital revolution has transformed the way we think about communications services. Telecommunications companies have converted from analog to […]

BSkyB has signed a deal with Exel, creating a new distribution centre, as the broadcaster continues to attempt to keep pace with the demand for digital upgrades. The new national […]

SES has appointed Martin Halliwell to the newly created position of director of communications technology. He will also serve as a member of the management committee. Halliwell will be responsible […]

Kingston TLI, the satellite services arm of the Kingston Communications Group, is adding two new C-Band earth stations for Indian Ocean coverage. This will triple the number of earth stations […]

Film and video distributor Metrodome, is set to move into streaming video on the Web through a joint venture with the Digital Broadcasting Company (DBC), the PPV group which broadcasts […]

The Big News at Galileo Industries inaugural press conference at its new Brussels office (belonging to Finmeccanica) on May 25 happened over three weeks earlier in Edinburgh. There, Nasa Administrator […]

It is now almost two weeks since New ICO, formerly ICO Global Communi-cations, announced on May 17 that it had emerged from US Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection, following a decision […]

Iridium’s bankruptcy is still having reverberations. Iridium’s creditors have begun their own claims against Motorola, which they allege, created the system and has failed in its legal duties to maintain […]

The first station from Discovery Channel has appeared in the Polish Cyfra+ package. Discovery Civilisation made its debut on May 23 following pressure from subscribers anxious to be able to […]

Italian public broadcaster RAI is leading a project for the launch of a multilingual and multicultural satellite TV channel for countries in the Mediterranean region. At a meeting of the […]

Leading Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset has registered encouraging first quarter results for 2000 thanks in part to an alliance with Germany’s Kirch Group. The financial results of the Milan-based TV […]

Beta Research, the subsidiary of German media company Kirch Group responsible for the d-box technology, has started to develop the third generation of the digital set-top-box. According to Gerrit Huy, […]

A rush of press releases has again greeted the latest TV audience figures from the European Media Survey, the only pan-European study covering international broadcasters. Each broadcaster is claiming to […]

RaiSat, the Italian public broadcasters subsiduary for digital television and thematic channels, has closed its first financial year in the black. During a recent shareholder meeting, RaiSat’s administrative council announced […]

American sports network ESPN is to pull out of Eurosport with the intention of developing its own brand in Europe. The new shareholder structure of Eurosport International sees Canal+ holding […]

Cable and Satellite Mediacast said goodbye to Earls Court with a near flourish The last Cable and Satellite Mediacast to be held at Earls Court (May 15-17) will probably be […]

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 80 degreesE: Express-6A D – REN TV from Russia has launched a […]

Suez-Lyonnaise, which owns 25 per cent of French pay-TV digital satellite platform TPS, has offered to acquire the 25 per cent in the digital platform held by terrestrial channel TF1. […]

Internet company Europe Online and the video-on-demand free broadcaster IchooseTV.com have formed a strategic alliance. The Europe Online network is carried on the Astra Satellite System and the new partnership […]

Few entrepreneurs have succeeded in achieving the full potential of commercial space. In the wake of the Mars mission and Iridium LLC failures, industry pioneers have realized the right combination […]

A Boeing Co. [BA] Delta 2 launcher has replaced one of the first U.S Global Positioning System satellites, which was launched aboard another Delta rocket 11 years ago. The launch […]