Author: Staff Writer

Korean satellite pay-TV operator Skylife is preparing to launch personal video recorder (PVR) services in Korea in 2006. The operator has announced that it will use NDS‘s XTV technology to...

It is hard to believe, but our SATELLITE 2006 Conference and Exhibition is only a little more than three months away! From February 6-9, Washington, DC, will be the center...

By Gerry Oberst We wrote in our September column about efforts in Europe to reshape media rules and the various ways these efforts could affect the satellite industry. As we...

By Jason Bates After spending much of the 20th century behind the Iron Curtain, many Central and Eastern European countries are embracing their relatively new economic and political freedoms and...

By Peter J. Brown Satellites have always enjoyed an advantage over terrestrial alternatives when it comes to beaming one-way transmissions over vast distances. Broadcasting the same signal to any number...

By Owen D. Kurtin Earlier this year, this column devoted a four-part series to the earlier-than-anticipated exits of private equity purchasers of Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) companies into initial public...

People Boeing Space And Intelligence Systems Appoints Vice President/General Manager Boeing announced that Howard Chambers was named vice president and general manager of Space And Intelligence Systems (S&IS), an operating...

Project Exploration is a Chicago-based non-profit organization whose goal is to make natural science accessible to the public, especially urban youth. In October 2003, University of Chicago paleontologist Dr. Paul...

I recently attended a summit that, in part, brought to the discussion floor the topic of corporate and government distance learning networks and where the next-generation trends and uses are...

EMS Technologies Inc. signed a definitive agreement to sell the assets and operating liabilities of its Space & Technology/Montreal division to MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), the companies announced...