Author: Staff Writer

MDA To Upgrade Asian Satellite Ground Station

By | October 7, 2003
Canadian firm MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates [Toronto: MDA] has been awarded a C$1.15 million (US$864,000) contract to upgrade a satellite ground station in Asia for an undisclosed customer. Information processed...

MobiApps Resells ORBCOMM Mobile Service

By | October 7, 2003
MobiApps, a provider of hybrid terrestrial and satellite technologies for commercial communications, has signed a reseller and manufacturing agreement with Dulles, Va.- based satellite communications provider ORBCOMM. Financial terms of...

Xybernaut, TeleType Link Up

By | October 6, 2003
Fairfax, Va.-based Xybernaut [Nasdaq: XYBR] has announced that the company is offering GPS receivers from Boston, Mass.-based Teletype as a value-add component for its mobile/wearable computers. Xybernaut said the initial...

ARINC's SKYLink Enters Production

By | October 6, 2003
Orlando, Fla.-based ARINC said its SKYLink satellite broadband data system for business aircraft is in production following successful flight trials and final conformance testing. ARINC developed the SKYLink system with...

NASA's ICESat Lasers Online

By | October 6, 2003
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) has resumed measurements of the Earth’s polar ice sheets, clouds, mountains and forests with the second of...

Rainbow DBS Chases HDTV Trend

By | October 6, 2003
Jericho, N.Y.-based Rainbow DBS, the direct broadcast satellite (DBS) venture of Bethpage, New York-based Cablevision Systems [NYSE: CVC], revealed last week that its fledgling service envisions high-definition television (HDTV) and...

Boeing Braces For Weak Rebound

By | October 6, 2003
Boeing [NYSE: BA], the world’s largest satellite manufacturer, is bracing for a weak recovery from the current drought in new satellite orders. The lackluster outlook was offered by Jim Albaugh,...