Author: JJ McCoy

NetSky Holdings Inc. is offering a high-speed, one-way satellite service marketed to small businesses and home-office users. Expected to launch March 1, the one-way Internet satellite service, provided through an...

Hughes Network Systems and Sea Tel Inc., have completed interoperability testing between the Hughes HX family of Internet protocol satellite broadband modems and Sea Tel’s family of marine stabilized satellite...

Lyman Bros. Inc., a satellite communications provider, has named Bill Raney as its chief operating officer (COO) effective Feb. 16. Raney joined Lyman Bros. Inc in 1995 and was promoted...

[2/19/07] SciSys, a software services provider, has signed a contract with EADS Astrium GmbH to develop on-board satellite software for the three-satellite Swarm mission, part in the European Space Agency’s...

[2/19/07 edition] Iridium Satellite will spend more than $2 billion to build and deploy its second-generation satellite constellation, dubbed Iridium Next, the company announced Feb. 15. Plans call for the...

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International Launch Services (ILS) signed a contract to launch the Ciel-2 satellite on a Proton Breeze-M vehicle in late 2008, the company announced Feb. 15. Ciel-2, built by Alcatel Alenia...

Ariane 5 production is being increased to meet growing demand in the launch services marketplace, Arianespace announced Feb. 15. In a declaration signed in Bremen, Germany, production of Ariane 5...

Eutelsat reported revenues of 415.3 million euros ($545.7 million) for the second half of 2006, the company announced Feb. 15. The revenues represented an increase of 5.2 percent over the...

TerreStar Networks Inc., a majority-owned subsidiary of Motient Corp., closed on the sale of $500 million in aggregate principal amount of its 15 percent senior secured notes due 2014, TerreStar...