Sirius Satellite Radio begins broadcasting BBC Radio 1 programming at 9 a.m. EDT Aug. 10, the company announced. Under a deal announced in June, the BBC Radio 1 lineup will...
After two delays for a combination of weather and technical reasons, NASA‘s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was successfully launched Aug. 12 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft...
XM Satellite Radio Aug. 9 unveiled two new receivers: the plug-and-play Audiovox Xpress Radio and the Delphi XM RoadyXT. The Xpress receiver is described as “the smallest satellite radio receiver...
Preliminary analysis from a failure review board (FRB) examining the January Intelsat IS-804 failure suggests root cause of the failure is note unique to this satellite. Instead, there could be...
NSE, DISH & SAT News that the anomaly that caused the failure of the Lockheed Martin-built Intelsat 804 could be a systemic problem affecting similar in-orbit satellites operated by New...
Conditional access technology vendor NDS will play a key role in developing the direct-to-home (DTH) market in India, Alex Gersh, the company’s chief financial offer, said. NDS will be providing...
After a three-year effort, Telenor Satellite Services received the necessary concession from the Brazilian government to offer Inmarsat satellite service directly to customers in the country rather than through Telenor’s...
In an effort to counter potential terrorists, increasingly sophisticated pirates and smugglers, Zoca Container Security BV is gearing up for the commercial release of a new marine shipping container security...
Teles Wireless Broadband Managing Director Andreas Kruger believes the United Kingdom is a potentially lucrative market for satellite broadband services. The company hopes to exploit the success of BSkyB in...
If the Chinese government is going to achieve its goal of analog signal switch-off by 2015, then satellite will play a key role, an industry analyst said. However, the satellite...