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Prof•it (prof’-it) n. The advantageous gain received on business when strategic technological investments are made.—Webster’s New College Dictionary Increasing return on investments, maintaining a cutting-edge communication infrastructure and keeping your...

by Gerry Oberst Government charges for access to satellite spectrum is always a hot topic. A series of recent consultations from Australia to Ireland focused on this issue recently, while...

By Peter J. Brown Satellite technology is going to play an essential role on multiple fronts in 21st century Africa. This huge continent has an enormous and growing appetite for...

Is The Worst Over? Another challenging year has passed for the global commercial satellite industry. The year 2002 echoed much of its predecessor in terms of contracts, launches and substantial...

by Carissa Bryce Christensen Should Europe and the United States be spending billions to protect a launch industry that cannot make it commercially? Painfully, the answer is yes. The launch...

People BOEING: Pioneer Inducted To Hall Of Fame Harold Rosen, a consultant and former 37-year employee of The Boeing Co., was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in...

The successful June 26 launch of the OrbView-3 high-resolution imaging satellite could help the Dulles, Va.-based Orbital Imaging Corp. (Orbimage) turn around its financial fortunes. The satellite imagery provider is...

As the International Telecommunication Union’s World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) enters its final week in Geneva, expect a flurry of activity on the spectrum front at the plenary level. Big issues...

Reston, Va.-based iDirect Technologies has teamed with Technical and Management Services Corp. (TAMSCO) to provide U.S. Army personnel in Iraq with a TDMA satellite network. TAMSCO, an information technology company,...

By Jose del Rosario In 2004, Shin Satellite (ShinSat) of Thailand will launch a new iPSTAR satellite aimed at providing telecommunications and multimedia services to households, businesses and public organizations....