Author: Staff Writer

Satellite Security Systems (S3), a San Diego, Calif.-based provider of asset security and logistics control, in cooperation with the California Highway Patrol and InterState Oil, has demonstrated the first wireless...

The half-dozen applications listed above are only the tip of the iceberg. Much more can be done with existing operational systems. Some of the ideas and concepts still on the...

DirecTV, the satellite TV unit of Hughes Electronics [NYSE: GMH], has purchased ILS‘ MaxView network control software for use in monitoring equipment at DirecTV’s new local channels uplink facilities. DirecTV...

Week of Oct. 24 – 30, 2003 Percentage Change Operators Symbol Oct. 30 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 2.21 (1.3) 6.3...

Digital Angel [Amex: DOC], a South St. Paul, Minn.-based supplier of GPS-based and wireless tracking devices, has acquired OuterLink, a Concord, Mass.-based producer of satellite data systems, in a stock...

The Bankruptcy Court of Eastern Virginia has approved the Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization plan of Orbital Imaging (ORBIMAGE),a Dulles, Va.-based provider of satellite imagery. With the court’s approval, ORBIMAGE will...

by Gerry Oberst The original glowing predictions for Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) are tempered by reality, but pushing and shoving continues regarding future MSS spectrum requirements. European spectrum managers met...

By James Careless In regions as different as Africa and the United States, universities and colleges rely on satellites to deliver distance education to remotely-located students, some of them hundreds,...

The year 2003 has left the North American satellite industry with a bit of uncertainty as the Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) arena adjusts to a swirl of activity surrounding Loral...

by Carissa Bryce Christensen Space control–assuring that friendly forces can use the space environment while denying its use to the enemy–is perhaps the highest priority space mission of the United...