Author: Staff Writer

Calian Technology Ltd.’s [CTY] Systems Engineering Division has been awarded a $4 million contract from Inmarsat to provide a new satellite spectrum monitoring system. The system will be used by...

Officials from PanAmSat Corp. [SPOT] said Caracol Television S.A. has chosen PanAmSat’s PAS9 Atlantic Ocean Region satellite to distribute its global programming throughout South America and Europe under the brand...

Officials from Connexion by Boeing, a fledgling in-flight broadband business unit of the Boeing Co. [BA], today said the company’s high-speed, airborne Internet service, scheduled to become available this spring,...

Arlington, Va.-based Iridium Satellite LLC announced the launch of a new satellite fax service that will permit its subscribers to send and receive faxes from any location in the world....

Interstate Connections LLC officials said today that they have inked a deal with Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI] to expand Sirius product availability within its stores. Interstate operates 70 “store-within-a-store” outlets...

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [GILTF] officials said today that the company had signed an agreement to supply Russia’s Modern Institute for the Humanities with a SkyStar 360E hub and 155...

EADS Astrium announced today that the W3A spacecraft it designed and built for Eutelsat has successfully performed early operations and is now in geostationary orbit. The satellite is drifting to...

Honeywell International [HON] officials said today that Joseph DeFrancisco was named vice president of the company’s military markets segment. He will be responsible for defense and space customer management activities....

StarBand, a McLean, Va.-based two-way, high-speed satellite Internet service provider, has launched the StarBand 481 Telecommuter service to provide a business-grade satellite modem capability that is compatible with both Windows...

AXONN, a New Orleans, La.-based wireless data company, entered into an agreement that calls for the distribution of its AXTracker satellite-based tracking system in Europe through United Kingdom-based BCM, a...