Author: Staff Writer

British Columbia based-MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates [MDA] was awarded a contract for a RADARSAT-2 ground station for the Instituto Geografico de Venezuela Simon Bolivar (IGVSB). The ground station will provide...

EchoStar Communications [DISH], an Englewood, Colo.-based provider of U.S. satellite TV, added local channels to El Paso, Texas, and to the Las Cruces, N.M., area as well as to the...

CopyTele, [COPY], a Melville, N.Y.-based manufacturer of encryption based products, agreed to provide its technology for use with the Boeing-built [BA] Thuraya satellite communications network. Financial terms were not disclosed....

Intuicom, a Boulder, Colo.-based wireless data company, yesterday released the Military II navigator data link with embedded Global Positioning System (GPS) capabilities for military and homeland- security applications. The Military...

The Superbird-6 satellite lifted into orbit last night after a successful launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on an Atlas IIAS rocket provided by International Launch Services (ILS). Liftoff of the...

Space Imaging, a Denver, Colo.-based provider of Earth imagery via satellite, appointed Mark A. Kling vice president, general counsel and secretary. Kling brings more than 20 years of legal experience...

DirecTV [DTV] has agreed to settle a lawsuit it filed last fall against PaySystems and a number of defendants who DirecTV claimed were processing payments for merchants selling goods marketed...

Loral Skynet officials said today the company successfully completed service trials with several customers on SkyReach, its IP-enabled product that provides two-way broadband services for secure private networks or for...

The Federal Communications Commission today unanimously approved a recommendation by the commission staff to proceed with the development of a proposed rule that would allow unlicensed wireless broadband devices to...

OpenTV [OPTV] CEO James Ackerman believes a new era of interactive television could be just around the corner in the United States, and his company could play a key role...