Author: JJ McCoy

Irdeto Acquires IDWay Irdeto, a provider of conditional access services to direct-to-home operators, has acquired IDWay, Irdeto announced July 6. The companies began working together in 2006, and the acquisition...

Irdeto, a provider of conditional access services to direct-to-home operators, has acquired IDWay, Irdeto announced July 6. The companies began working together in 2006, and the acquisition of IDWay, which...

Orbcomm Inc. added 28,000 net billable subscribers in the 2007 second quarter, the company announced July 5. The additions give Orbcomm a total subscriber base of more than 278,000 at...

The European scientific community has submitted proposals for 50 new scientific missions following a call for proposals issued in March by the European Space Agency (ESA), the agency announced July...

In a major blow to its pay-TV aspirations, Sogecable, which operates the Digital+ direct-to-home satellite platform, has lost the blue-chip Spanish soccer rights in Spain to Mediapro, a Spanish audiovisual...

The scheduled July 7 launch of NASA’s Dawn spacecraft aboard a Delta 2 rocket has been postponed until July 9 at the earliest, NASA announced. Dawn, the first planetary spacecraft...

Cathy Zhai, CFO of satellite solutions provider Norsat International Inc., resigned effective June 27, the company announced July 6. Until a successor is named, the CFO duties will be conducted...

High-definition coverage of the 2007 Tour de France will be provided by Orange Group subsidiary GlobeCast to French broadcaster France Televisions and the European Broadcasting Union, Orange announced July 6....

Guardian Mobility Corp. has launched the Tracer 3 product family of satellite modems designed to communicate via Globalstar’s simplex data network, Globalstar Inc. announced July 5. The modems are capable...

Elta has released its R3G universal repeater, which will receive and retransmit signals from the GPS, Glonass and Galileo satellite navigation systems, as well as allow the signals to be...