Author: Staff Writer

While interactive television is fairly common in the European television markets, it hasn’t yet caught on in a significant way in the United States, but EchoStar Communications Corp. is hoping...

Mobile Satellite Ventures last week announced that it is offering a new handset and new rate plans to respond to the needs of a growing public safety/emergency response market. The...

Foxtel Digital, the Australian cable and satellite pay-TV operator, has been a success story for digital television services in Asia. It is one of the fastest growing digital pay-TV operators...

International Launch Services (ILS) oversaw the launch of two rockets on Feb. 3, originating on both sides of the Atlantic. A Proton/Breeze M rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome...

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. reported an increase in revenues for 2004, but the revenues boost came coupled with a reported net loss for the year. For the year ended Dec....

UK satellite pay-TV operator BSkyB added almost 200,000 subscribers in the second quarter ended Dec. 31, 2004. This was one of the highlights as the operator announced its six month...

Stratos Global Corp. said it is doubling the high-speed data capabilities of its Inmarsat Fleet F77 maritime communications service up to 128 kilobits per second. Stratos said that with the...

Comsat International Inc. said its Comsat Brazil subsidiary won a public auction to build, operate and mange the communications network for the national lottery and transaction clearinghouse network in Brazil....

According to Reuters, the U.S. military began a five-day war game to see how space-based assets such as satellite communications and precision bomb guidance systems would fare in a hypothetical...

Rainbow Media Holdings LLC, the programming subsidiary for Cablevision Systems Corp., said it recently secured a number of key distribution agreements with both EchoStar Communications Corp. and The DirecTV Group...