Author: Staff Writer

Hands-on SES Americom President and CEO Dean Olmstead left the company this week, and a search is underway to find his replacement. His departure is not expected to curb the...

In the latest blurring of the lines between local terrestrial broadcast radio and subscription-based satellite radio, XM Satellite Radio today launched XM Emergency Alert on XM channel 247. The station...

Intelsat signed a three-year deal with Radio e Televisao de Portugal (RTP), that country’s state broadcaster, to provide end-to-end international distribution of RTP content to Europe, Africa and Latin America....

Monster Cable Products Inc. will team with Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI] to market and distribute Sirius-branded accessories for the home and mobile entertainment markets. Monster also will work with the...

EMS Satellite Networks, a division of EMS Technologies Inc. [ELMG], hired Penny Glover as managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Glover comes to EMS with more than...

Satellite Today has learned that, sometime next year, Israel’s Tauvex II scientific camera will be launched from India aboard the GSAT-4 satellite. Any photos gleaned from the camera will be...

EADS Astrium won a contract from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-based Arabsat to provide a satellite control center for the Arabsat-4A and Arabsat-4B satellites. Terms of the deal, whose value has not...

El Segundo, Calif.-based DirecTV Group‘s [DTV] has taken the mystery out of its plans for providing high-definition (HD) satellite-TV services by announcing it will use the Spaceway satellites, now under...

Satellite Today learned that scientists have begun the process of piecing together the wreckage of the Genesis space capsule that crashed into the salt flats of Utah yesterday in an...

Globecomm Systems Inc. [GCOM] reported a 61.5-percent increase in its year-end FY04 (ended June 30) revenues to $87.2 million from $54 million earned in the same period a year ago....