Author: Staff Writer

The major Inmarsat service providers – France Telecom Mobile Satellite Telecommunications, Stratos Global Corp., Telenor Satellite Services and Xantic – announced separately Dec. 7 the commercial availability of Inmarsat’s Broadband...

Globalstar said Dec. 7 it received approval from the U.S. State Department to proceed with plans to launch up to eight spare satellites, with the first launch expected to occur...

International Launch Services (ILS) has delayed the launch of a Proton rocket that will carry the AMC-23 satellite into orbit for SES Americom. Liftoff had been scheduled for Dec. 5....

German companies will receive additional work on Europe’s Galileo program, under an agreement reached Dec. 5 among European companies involved in the project. The latest agreement, signed by the eight...

Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. (CSR), the Canadian affiliate of XM Satellite Radio, said Dec. 6 it will offer more than 3.4 million shares of stock in an initial public...

Globalstar LLC said Dec. 6 that Elsacom, an independent gateway operator and Globalstar service distributor in Central and Eastern Europe, won a 20 million euro ($23.6 million) contract to provide...

The Modern Times Group (MTG), which owns the Viasat direct-to-home satellite television platform in the Nordic region, increased its stake in Nordic Betting Ltd. to 90 percent, MTG announced. MTG...

Radyne Corp. said Dec. 6 it completed shipment of a previously undisclosed order of DMD-20 satellite modems, valued at more than $1.6 million, to Chinasat Communications Group. The modems will...

Worldspace Satellite Radio said Dec. 5 it launched subscription service in Chandigarh, the capital of India’s Punjab state. Chandigarh, the ninth city Worldspace has rolled out service to in 2005,...

ViaSat said Dec. 5 it is supplying its Surfbeam broadband satellite network to Telesat, enabling Telesat customers in Colombia to provide Internet access to schools and other projects. Telesat customers...