Author: Staff Writer

Andrew Wright, president of the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association (SBCA), said that the Federal Communications Commission’s Report on 2002 Cable Industry Prices, released this week, “illustrates why consumers continue...

PlanetLink Communications [OTC BB: PLKC.OB] , a Cumming, Ga.-based provider of satellite-based products and services, has signed a sales and marketing agreement with James J. Vogel, dba Market One Direct,...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched its second Mars probe, “Opportunity,” July 7 aboard a Delta II rocket. The launch, originally scheduled for June 28, was delayed numerous times...

LiveTV, a unit of JetBlue Airways [Nasdaq: JBLU], has signed an agreement with Canadian low-cost carrier WestJet Airlines [Toronto: WJA.TO] to provide in-flight satellite TV service on the carrier’s fleet...

A Canadian federal court has upheld a lower court order to seize satellite equipment and access cards from a number of dealers in Ontario and Quebec. The federal court also...

DigitalGlobe, a Longmont, Colo.-based satellite imagery firm, is making available to non-military government customers a new color imagery product, as well as a subscription program and a civil government license....

Stratos [TSX:SGB], a Bethesda, Md.-based provider of global remote communications, announced that effective immediately it will provide Inmarsat leased services through a fifth satellite located at 143.5 degrees East Longitude....

Teledesic LLC‘s one-time plan to launch a $10 billion constellation of satellites to provide broadband services has been scaled back over the years and now appears to have ended, after...

Serbian television and radio channels Pink Plus, Extra and Radio Pink have signed up to deliver their programming via GlobeCast‘s digital direct-to-home platform at 13 degrees East Longitude across the...

DaimlerChrysler [NYSE: DCX] has begun offering Smartnav, a satellite navigation system from Trafficmaster, as an approved accessory in the United Kingdom on its Voyager, Grand Voyager, Cherokee, Grand Cherokee and...