Author: Staff Writer

Lockheed Martin received a contract from the U.S. Air Force to build a third spacecraft for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) satellite constellation. Advanced EHF satellites, the successor to...

BSkyB, the U.K. satellite pay-TV operator, will invest 1 million British pounds ($1.7 billion) in a partnership with conservation group the National Trust, including developing a series of high-definition (HD)...

Sea Launch‘s Odyssey Launch Platform and Sea Launch Commander departed the company’s home port in Long Beach, Calif., for Sea Launch’s first mission of the year. Sea Launch is scheduled...

Digitalglobe (www.digitalglobe.com) and Valtus Imagery Services (www.valtusimagery.com), a division of Northwest Geomatics Ltd., entered into a three-year data distribution partnership to offer Digitalglobe’s high-resolution commercial satellite imagery to Valtus customers....

Thrane & Thrane Inc. (www.tt.dk) unveiled its Sailor VMS Systems, which provides global connectivity for commercial fisherman on Inmarsat-C, a network for safety at sea and global maritime communications. Thrane...

EMS Satcom (www.emssatcom.com), a division of EMS Technologies Inc., said that Venezuela’s Insituto National de Aviacion Civil awarded EMS Satcom a $2.9 million contract for the company’s search and rescue...

Facing mounting competition from cable and telecom companies, it is no surprise that industry rumors resurfaced that AT&T may buy Echostar outright rather than merely reselling the satellite television company’s...

Great Circle Shipping (www.preciousshipping.com), a Bangkok-based ship management company, is fitting 34 of its bulk cargo carriers with Thrane & Thrane’s maritime Iridium terminals under a service contract with Singapore...

By Gerry Oberst In the last days of December, the European Union was poised to adopt rules on data traffic retention that telecommunications providers must save for law enforcement purposes...

Iridium Satellite LLC (www.iridium.com) is providing satellite data links to enable e-mail, Internet and intraship communications for the passengers and crew of M/V Polar Star, an expedition cruise ship that...