Author: Staff Writer

Bedminster, N.J.-based Loral Skynet and Remote Work Central, a provider of telecommuting and teleworking solutions, agreed to provide secure telecommuting and remote access connectivity services to small and medium enterprises...

Satellite Today has learned that China yesterday successfully launched a meteorological satellite that will be used to monitor natural disasters. The No. 2 Fengyun C satellite was launched into orbit...

Frost & Sullivan has given its 2004 Satellite Reliability Award to Lockheed Martin [LMT] for the lowest rate of anomalies resulting in insurance claims per percentage of satellites in service...

Ottawa, Canada-based C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. [CMI], has teamed with fellow Ottawa company RAMTelecom to deliver high-speed, satellite- based mobile Internet services using the LinkStar equipment of Carlsbad, Calif.-based Viasat...

Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI] said today that it has surpassed the 700,000-subscriber mark and had its best month ever for new subscribers in September, with the addition of 69,000 subs....

Alexandria, Va.-based Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association (SBCA) filed comments last Friday with the FCC about the commission’s Notice of Inquiry (NOI) on violent television programming and its impact on...

NASA late yesterday said its DART, or Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology, spacecraft will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Oct. 26 at 2:13 p.m. EDT. DART...

Hughes Network Systems Inc. has inked a deal with Ukrainian-based information technology and telecommunications company Datasat to extend Datasat’s existing satellite business network. Under the contract, Hughes will supply Datasat...

Detroit-based Ford Motor Co. [F] today announced that it is expanding the availability of Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI] significantly by committing to make it a factory-installed option on up to...

Conventional wisdom is that New York City-based Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI] was savvy to hire shock jock Howard Stern and his entourage for the princely sum of $100 million annually...