Author: Staff Writer

Stratos Signs Oil Services Contract

By Staff Writer | July 28, 2003

Stratos, a Bethesda, Md.-based provider of remote communications solutions and services, has been awarded a five-year contract to upgrade and enhance the satellite-based communications infrastructure on the Ramform Banff, a...

U.S. Coast Guard Evaluates Inmarsat Fleet F55

By Staff Writer | July 28, 2003

The U.S. Coast Guard is evaluating the Fleet F55 service provided by London-basedmobile satellite service company Inmarsat aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Shearwater. The evaluation follows beta testing and launch...

EMS Awarded Switching Contract

By Staff Writer | July 28, 2003

EMS Technologies [Nasdaq: EMLG] has received a contract valued at $5.7 million from Italian satellite manufacturer Alenia Spazio to supply switching technology for the Cosmo SkyMed earth observation satellite mission...

TPS Closes In On 1.2 Million Subscribers In France

By Staff Writer | July 28, 2003

TPS, the number two satellite pay-TV operator in France, announced that it had 1,192,000 satellite pay-TV subscribers at the end of June 2003. TPS still lags behind market leader Canal...

The Satellite News Financial Ticker

By Staff Writer | July 28, 2003

Week of July 18-24, 2003 Percentage Change Symbol July 24 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 3.05 (17.6) 38.0 160.7 77.3...

Alcatel Space To Build HOT BIRD 7A for Eutelsat

By Staff Writer | July 28, 2003

Alcatel Space, a unit of France’s Alcatel [NYSE: ALA], has received a contract from Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat to build the HOT BIRD 7A communications satellite to replace the HOT...

DBS Turns To Bells For Edge

By Staff Writer | July 28, 2003

The two leading direct broadcast satellite (DBS) providers in the United States are responding to competition from cable TV by aligning themselves with the Bell phone companies to provide bundled...

Cablevision's Rainbow Poses Threat

By Staff Writer | July 28, 2003

The Rainbow 1 satellite recently launched by International Launch Services for New York-based Cablevision Systems [NYSE: CVC] poses a legitimate threat to existing satellite TV service providers Hughes Electronics’ [NYSE:...

Boeing Restructuring Shows Industry Strain

By Staff Writer | July 28, 2003

Boeing’s [NYSE: BA] realignment of its launch and satellite businesses last week is another sign of how the industry’s downturn is causing even one of the largest, most diversified companies...

Mooney Joins Sirius Board

By Staff Writer | July 25, 2003

James F. Mooney has joined the board of directors at New York-based satellite radio firm Sirius Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: SIRI]. Mooney is chairman of NTL, a UK-based cable company. Prior...