Author: Staff Writer

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) introduced its new MSAT-G2 mobile satellite radio Aug. 22. The MSAT-G2 supports continent-wide, satellite dispatch radio and circuit-switched voice communications. The unit includes full suite of...

New Zealand pay-TV service provider Sky TV posted total revenues of NZ $489.4 million ($341 million) for the year ended June 30 up from NZ $440.6 million ($306.7 million) in...

Beginning Aug. 23 and running through Sept. 29, Sirius Satellite Radio will turn its Channel 99 into an all Rolling Stones channel. The channel will broadcast music from the band’s...

Space Imaging announced Aug. 22 that Jim Youker has returned to the company as executive director of U.S. government and North American sales. Most recently, Youker, who has more than...

The countdown for the launch of Japan’s Optical Inter-orbit Communication Engineering Test Satellite (OICETS) and a piggyback spacecraft is underway for an Aug. 24 launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in...

Satellites are playing a vital role in helping Project Exploration enhance the science education experience for minority youth, and specifically girls, in Chicago and around the globe. Project Exploration brings...

After an anxious wait for owner Shin Satellite, the IPStar spacecraft, which the company designated Thaicom 4, was launched earlier this month onboard an Ariane 5G rocket. Shin now will...

The number of households subscribing to satellite TV has increased dramatically during the past year, according to the J.D. Power and Associates “2005 Residential Cable/Satellite TV Satisfaction Study,” released Aug....

Lockheed Martin said Aug. 15 it delivered the spacecraft core structure, including an integrated propulsion subsystem, for the first Space-based Infrared System High (SBIRS High) geosynchronous satellite. The propulsion subsystem...

The European Space Agency said its next Meteosat satellite, MSG-2, will launch before the end of the year. MSG-2, in storage at the Arianespace launch facility in Kourou, French Guiana...