Author: Staff Writer

Sea Launch, a joint of Boeing [NYSE: BA] and foreign partners, successfully launched the Galaxy XIII/Horizons-1, a Boeing 601HP satellite, for PanAmSat [Nasdaq: SPOT] and JSAT of Japan. The satellite...

Germantown, Md.-based Hughes Network Systems (HNS) has introduced the DW6000, the latest product in its family of DirecWay broadband terminals. The DW6000 incorporates an advanced, single-board architecture, offering an Ethernet...

Bryan A. McGuirk has been named senior vice president of domestic satellite services at SES Americom, a Princeton, N.J.-based subsidiary of Luxembourg-based SES Global [Luxembourg: SESG]. In this role, McGuirk...

El Segundo, Calif.-based Aerospace Corp. plans to add two new senior executives to its fold. Donald R. Walker will become senior vice president of its Systems Planning and Engineering group,...

The Telecom Marketing Awards presented by PBI Media’s Telecom Group are among the telecommunications industry’s most privileged honors, recognizing the best telecom marketing campaigns and programs of the past year....

ViaSat [Nasdaq: VSAT] has won a $4.65 million contract to supply its LINKWAY multi-protocol broadband VSATs to provide communications and video back- haul services for the All African Games to...

Qualcomm [Nasdaq: QCOM], a San Diego, Calif.-based developer of digital wireless communications products and services, has agreed to buy Mobicom, a European mobile satellite data communications systems and service provider,...

San Jose, Calif.-based Globalstar [OTCBB: GSTRF.OB], a mobile satellite service provider, has extended the availability of its data monitoring service to parts of the Middle East, with full commercial availability...

Tachyon, a San Diego, Calif.-basedprovider of broadband satellite solution for large enterprises and government agencies, has secured an additional $6 million in capital funding. West River Capital led the investing...

Surrey Satellite Technology, a Guildford, UK-basedsatellite manufacturer,launched three small satellites into low Earth orbit aboard a Kosmos rocket from Plesetsk in northern Russia Sept. 27. Company officials said the satellites...