Author: Staff Writer

The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has stepped up its actions to combat piracy in Hong Kong. Most recently, the association filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction...

Optus, Australia’s second largest telco and a subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., said its aging B1 satellite experienced an outage last week. The May 23outage was caused by a failure...

The Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group said May 30 it launched a new Global Uplinker Registry, which will provide regional and local uplinkers with a central means of increasing their...

The Wall Street Journal Reported May 31 that XM Satellite Radio awarded the contract for its fifth satellite to Loral Space and Communications, though the article did not get formal...

Thai Shin Satellite plans to launch its Ipstar satellite no later than July 18 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket, according to documents the company filed with the Stock Exchange of...

Orbital Sciences Corp. announced May 27, as this issue of Satellite News was going to press, that U.S. government agents executed search warrants at the company’s Dulles, Va., and Chandler,...

A group of creditors who hold more than $379 million of outstanding notes of Satelites Mexicanos, S.A. de C.V. (Satmex) filed an involuntary Chapter 11 petition May 26 against the...

Satellite pay-TV operators in Europe reported mixed results for the first quarter of 2005. In the post-holiday market, the rate of growth is traditionally slower and the numbers reflect that...

The U.S. Air Force announced May 23 it selected Lockheed Martin to continue development of the Innovative Space Based Radar Antenna Technology, or ISAT. The contract, valued at $19.5 million,...

Panamsat Holding Corp. continues to rise, ending the 10 trading days leading to our May 26 publication deadline for this issue at a historic high of $19.70 per share since...