Author: Staff Writer

London-based BT Broadcast Services, the broadcast and media-solutions arm of BT, announced an agreement to promote use of the SES Astra satellite service operating at 19.2 degrees E to independent...

Germantown, Md.-based Hughes Network Systems and GTSI [DTSI], inked a deal to provide satellite broadband services to government users. Using the DirecWay service provided by HNS, GTSI would be able...

Washington, D.C.-based XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] will air Big Ten Conference football along with men’s and women’s basketball games. The move follows an announcement last week by rival Sirius Satellite...

New York City-based Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI], one of two U.S.-based satellite radio services, passed the 600,000-subscriber mark this past Labor Day Weekend, and it remains on target to achieve...

The World Communications Center (WCC) today said it is supplying “hundreds” of its satellite phones that communicate through the Iridium constellation to Florida utilities, county governments, large retail corporations, insurance...

SES Global company SES Astra is continuing its push into Africa with a new agreement with Worldsat, another SES Global company. Worldsat is providing SES Astra with the capacity for...

Ottawa-based Telesat Canada was formed Sept. 1, 1969, as the first operator of a satellite launched to serve a single country. Today, it is blazing the trail to offer high-speed...

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) was selected by the Canadian Space Agency to develop concepts for a follow-on to the Radarsat-2 program. The Radarsat program is designed to provide...

Pegasus Communications Corp. [PGTVE] said that, starting today, the company’s ticker symbol will be followed by an “E,” indicating the company has failed to comply with one of the Nasdaq‘s...

It seems that the U.S Air Force was listening to Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.) when he told attendees at the National Defense Industrial Association Space Symposium in July that there...