Author: Staff Writer

Top Up TV wants to carve out a niche in the increasingly competitive lower end of the digital pay-TV market in the U.K. by launching a brand-new pay-TV package called...

Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin [LMT] won a $6 million, 18-month contract from NASA to perform design-and-risk reduction for the agency’s Solar Imaging Suite (SIS), a set of operational instruments that...

New York City-based AirTV’s search for funding did not stop the startup from signing a launch services agreement with Arianespace last week, with the first launch scheduled for 2007. The...

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company of Sunnyvale, Calif., won a $2.1 billion cost-plus-incentive-fee contract from the U.S. Navy for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), a next-generation narrowband military satellite...

Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI], the higher priced of two U.S.-based satellite radio services, took the unusual step of issuing a press release last week to put a positive spin on...

Satellite Today has learned that an insurance company in California is using satellite imagery to determine whether to renew coverage to certain clients in high-fire-risk areas who may need to...

By Paul Dykewicz PanAmSat President and CEO Joseph Wright, noted for his financial conservatism and cost-cutting, recently told me he isn’t worried at all about taking on a large debt...

Eutelsat shareholders approved a plan to restructure its corporate governance by replacing a 15-member supervisory board/four-member management board with a single 10-member board of directors. Giuliano Berretta was elected chairman...

Following the discovery of glitch in the Thaicom 3 satellite that could result in that bird’s failure, Satellite Today discovered that Shin Satellite PLC is pushing plans to launch its...

China launched its 20th recoverable satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center aboard a Long March 2-D rocket. The satellite will be used for research, geological surveying and mapping, and...