Author: Staff Writer

Hughes Network Systems (HNS), a Germantown, Md.-based unit of Hughes Electronics [NYSE: GMH], has launched its DirecWay broadband by satellite services in Brazil and throughout South America. Through a newly...

The Canadian Space Agency‘s MOST microsatellite is scheduled to blast into orbit on June 30. Built at Dynacon of Toronto, and the universities of British Columbia and Toronto, MOST (Microvariability...

Xytrans, which produces high-frequency radiofrequency subsystems for broadband communications, has released its latest two-way satellite VSAT outdoor unit that integrates a high-performance Ka-band block upconverter with off-the-shelf Ka-, Ku- or...

The Canadian Space Agency said Thursday thatitsOSIRIS (Optical Spectrograph and InfraRed Imager System) instrument flying onboard Swedish satellite Odin will continue to provide data relating to ozone depletion for an...

Norsat International [Nasdaq: NSAT], a Burnaby, British Columbia-based firm, has won a contract worth in excess of C$1 million (US$730,000) to supply components for use in military shipboard satellite terminals....

The European Association for the Protection of Encrypted Works and Services (AEPOC) has given a cautious seal of approval to the latest European Commission (EC) review of its 1998 conditional...

UK pay-TV operator BSkyB [London: BSY.L] is within 300,000 subscribers of the magic 7 million subscriber figure. In its first quarter results, the operator said it added 150,000 net new...

Dave Ryan became the general manager of Boeing Satellite Systems (BSS) at the end of February. He replaces Randy Brinkley, who is stepping down next month. The challenge for Ryan...

Boeing [NYSE: BA] has shipped the Thuraya-2 mobile communications satellite from its Boeing Satellite Systems manufacturing facility in El Segundo, Calif., to the Sea Launch home port in Long Beach,...

Peugeot Motor Co. has begun offering Smartnav satellite navigation products as an approved accessory across its entire U.K. model range. Peugeot sold in excess of 200,000 cars in the United...