Author: Staff Writer

Tyco Telecommunications, a Morristown, N.J.-based business unit of Tyco Electronics, has been selected by a subsidiary of the Norwegian Space Center (NSC) to supply the Svalbard undersea cable system linking...

PanAmSat [Nasdaq: SPOT]COO Jim Frownfelter is optimistic market conditions will turn around in 2004, although he concedes this year is likely to be tough. PanAmSat recently issued some encouraging first...

WildBlue Communications announced Tuesday that Liberty Satellite & Technology [OTC:LSTTA], Intelsat, National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC), Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and David Drucker, WildBlue’s chairman, have finalized their $156...

By Jimmy Schaeffler Hughes Electronics Corp. [NYSE: GMH] offered surprisingly good news when it held its first quarter conference call with financial analysts last Monday. Wall Street satellite analysts were...

New York-based Sirius Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: SIRI] is unveiling what the company calls the first national radio channel aimed at the large niche audience of gay, lesbian, transgender and bisexual...

Boeing Integrated Defense Systems has awarded ITT Industries’ [NYSE: ITT] Aerospace/Communication Division (A/CD) a contract with a potential value $31 million to upgrade 12 Global Positioning System (GPS) Block IIF...

The Allied Defense Group’s California-based SeaSpace subsidiary has signed a long-term collaborative agreement with Taiwan’s National Space Program Office (NSPO). Under the agreement, SeaSpace and NSPO will collaborate initially on...

EMS Technologies [Nasdaq: ELMG] has signed up UK-based NSSL as a master distributor for its suite of Inmarsat satellite products and services. NSSL will provide service to customers worldwide in...

A passenger onboard a recent bmi flight from Chicago to Manchester, England, became the first commercial airline passenger to have an electrocardiogram (ECG) in flight with data from the procedure...

DigitalGlobe’s QuickBird satellite imagery is being used to support a wildlife observation study in Bristol Bay and the Bering Sea, Alaska. The imagery, purchased by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...