Author: Staff Writer

Inmarsat Group Ltd. earned $6.3 million in the 2005 first quarter, rebounding from a loss of $10 million in the same period one year ago, Inmarsat reported May 9. Revenue...

SkyStream Inc. signed a cross-licensing agreement with Helius Inc. under which each company will license patented technology from the other in designing Internet protocol-based satellite and terrestrial networks. Financial terms...

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) said the National Remote Sensing Agency’s Data Reception Station at Shadnagar, India, received imagery from the recently launched Cartosat-1. The satellite has been undergoing...

Nordic media company Modern Times Group (MTG) continues to drive its channels into new Eastern European markets with an agreement that will see its Viasat subsidiary launch some of its...

Orbital Sciences Corp. said the U.S. Air Force recently awarded the company a launch service contract involving two new small launch vehicles to serve the U.S. military’s need for responsive...

Xtar LLC completed the first field trials of the Space Systems/Loral-built Xtar-Eur satellite, placed on orbit at 29? East in February, Xtar announced. The demonstration for the U.S. Army‘s 7th...

It is set to be a busy year for DirecTV Latin America as the company tries to get back on track in the pay-TV markets of Latin America. The operator...

One of the stated goals of this column is to test the adage, “a rising tide lifts all ships.” Last week, we had the first real opportunity since the inception...

The Associated Press reported May 6 that Andrew Corp. is moving its satellite-TV dish manufacturing operations from Smithfield, NC to Mexico. Andrew took over the plant when it acquired certain...

SES Americom conducted the last operations on the Satcom C1 satellite, safely de-orbiting the satellite more than 280 km beyond the geosynchronous orbital belt, the company announced May 2. The...