Author: JJ McCoy

A Sea Launch Zenit-3SL vehicle carrying the NSS-8 satellite for SES New Skies suffered a catastrophic failure Jan. 30, exploding at liftoff. An Internet broadcast of the launch by Sea...

A Sea Launch Zenit-3SL vehicle carrying the NSS-8 satellite for SES New Skies suffered a catastrophic failure Jan. 30, exploding at liftoff. As of Wednesday morning, Sea Launch held comment...

A Sea Launch Zenit-3SL vehicle carrying the NSS-8 satellite for SES New Skies suffered a catastrophic failure Jan. 30, exploding at liftoff. As visible on the launch video, the vehicle...

Sea Launch has reset the launch of the NSS-8 communications satellite for SES New Skies for Jan. 30, Sea Launch announced. The 37-minute launch window remains set to open at...

About 93.9 percent of households in Saudi Arabia own a satellite dish, Middle East telecoms consultancy Arab Advisors reported in “Saudi Arabia Media Survey 2007,” released earlier this month. Showtime,...

TerreStar Networks Inc. plans to raise $450 million in funding through the sale of senior secured discount notes due in 2015, TerreStar announced Jan. 29. TerreStar, a majority-owned subsidiary of...

Intelsat plans sell its Silver Spring, Md., teleport, which includes the land, facilities and six antennas ranging in size from 3.8 meters to 10 meters, Intelsat announced Jan. 26. Intelsat...

XM Radio Online will be included in Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows Vista, XM Satellite Radio announced. XM Radio Online provides more than 80 of XM’s channels and will be...

The Jan. 23 announcement that Jared “Jerry” Abbruzzese had resigned as chairman of the board for TerreStar Networks Inc. and chairman of TerreStar Global Ltd. coincides with reports that the...

The uplink and downlink phased-array antennas developed by Northrop Grumman Corp. for the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military satellite communications payload have been integrated onto the first flight...