Author: Staff Writer

PanAmSat Looks For Turnaround In 2004

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...

Liberty Satellite-Led Investment in WildBlue Closes

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...

DirecTV Surprises Wall Street

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...

ITT Gets $31M GPS Contract

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...

SeaSpace, Taiwan Ink Deal

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 Signs Up NSSL

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...

Satellite Saves Passenger's Life

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 Walrus Project

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...