Author: Staff Writer

STMicroelectronics, a supplier of silicon chips for set-top boxes (STBs), announced March 22 a low-cost satellite STB receiver/decoder chip – the STI5188 – intended for high-volume free-to-air markets in Asia,...

Raytheon‘s Intelligence and Information Systems business has won a six-month, competitive contract from the U.S. National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration‘s (NOAA) National Ocean Service to develop a conceptual design, life-cycle...

U.K. satellite pay-TV operator BSkyB plans to launch a variety of new services enabled by its acquisition of Easynet, BSkyB announced. The satellite operator, which has been accelerating its plans...

Tandberg Television announced March 21 that it is providing the video compression systems to enable China’s first national high definition (HD) TV roll-out. The HD video delivery system is based...

Panamsat announced March 20 that it signed a multi-year agreement with Strong Technologies Llc of Dubai for programming distribution on its PAS-10 Indian Ocean Region satellite. The multinational company will...

Eutelsat Communications announced March 21 that NTV-Plus, a Russian direct-to-home pay-TV platform, is boosting its capacity on Eutelsat’s W4 satellite from six to eight transponders. The new agreement for high-power...

Orbital Sciences Corp. announced March 22 that its Pegasus space launch vehicle launched three small scientific spacecraft for NASA‘s Space Technology 5 program (ST5). In a mission that took place...

Space Explorations Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) announced March 17 that Jim Maser will join the company as president and COO. Maser spent most of his career with Boeing, most recently serving...

Worldspace Inc. cuts its net loss from $577.4 million in 2004 to $79.7 million in 2005, as total revenues jumped 36 percent to $11.7 million in 2005, the company reported....

Geoeye received an additional $13 million in orders from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) under the Clearview contract, the company announced. The latest orders are in addition to the...