Author: Staff Writer

Swe-Dish Satellite Systems added new functionality to its IPT Suitcase navigation solution offering, which the company claims will make the product as easy to use as a mobile phone. The...

Hughes Network Systems LLC (HNS) unveiled June 6 its managed telecommunications service, Direcway Unified Broadband, aimed at providing enterprise users with a generic broadband network solution. HNS will offer network...

The commercial satellite industry generated $97.2 billion in revenues in 2004, up 6.7 percent from the previous year, according to the Satellite Industry Association‘s (SIA) “State of the Satellite Industry...

With Mexican satellite operator Satelites Mexicanos S.A. de C.V.‘s (Satmex) facing numerous questions about its future, a group of the company’s creditors filed an involuntary Chapter 11 petition against Satmex...

Loral Space & Communications Ltd. moved a step closer to emerging from bankruptcy when the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved, June 1, the company’s...

Tracking people using GPS technology, particularly paroled felons, is gaining media attention. Now GPS Tracks LLC is applying that concept to help people keep track of something a bit closer...

While market conditions continue to be tough for satellite manufacturers, Alcatel Space CEO Pascale Sourisse is confident the company’s prospects for revenue growth prospects will remain strong. Whether it is...

The biggest news affecting a publicly-traded company in the past five business days leading up to this issue’s June 3 publication was the launch of an investigation of Orbital Sciences...

G2 Satellite Solutions, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Panamsat that focuses on providing communications solutions to the U.S. government, announced June 1 the launch of a new global managed network service...

Arianespace said it would launch the Spaceway 2 satellite for DirecTV and Telkom 2 for PT Telkom Indonesia June 24. The spacecraft will be launched aboard an Ariane 5 ECA...