Author: Staff Writer

El Segundo, Calif.-based Hughes Electronics [NYSE: HS] reported that its fourth quarter 2003 revenues rose more than 20 percent to $2.95 billion, on the strength of rising subscriber gains and...

El Segundo, Calif.-based DirecTV, the largest U.S. satellite television services provider, added to its executive team by naming Richard Slenker to become its executive vice president of technology and engineering...

Satellite Security, a San Diego-based company that provides secure Global Positioning System (GPS) services, has signed a pact to monitor oil tankers for New York-based Metro Fuel Oil. No financial...

The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System (EGNOS), designed to improve the accuracy of satellite global navigation systems, is now undergoing tests prior to service launch in the middle of the...

VIENNA, Va. — U.S.-based Cisco Systems [NYSE: CSCO] and British small satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology have successfully launched and deployed a “router in space.” The Cisco-supplied router is part...

Gilat Satellite Networks [Nasdaq: GILTF], an Israeli-based satellite communications company, has developed a new generation of products called the SkyEdge family. The SkyEdge product family includes a series of VSAT...

Standard Radio, a Toronto-based radio broadcasting company, is the latest partner to team up with New York-based Sirius Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: SIRI] in an attempt to bring satellite radio to...

Satellite-based video services are expected to help save lives through a Houston-based program jointly operated by the U.S. Army, Texas A&M University and the University of Texas Health Science Center...

By Maury Mechanick As the satellite industry emerges from its most recent downturn, a number of new opportunities and threats loom on the horizon. Among these, voice over Internet Protocol...

Despite bankruptcy at its parent company, Space Systems/ Loral (SS/L) has picked up some key satellite manufacturing orders recently, most notably in October from DirecTV. The turnaround has clearly been...