Author: Staff Writer

Satellite Executives Are Bullish On Broadband

LAS VEGAS–Satellite-delivered broadband services will gain a market niche despite fierce competition from regional telephone companies and the nation’s cable TV system operators, top satellite industry officials are predicting. “Convergence...

France, Japan's Team On Service

France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications and KDDI have signed a partnership that will allow the French operator to offer global coverage to its Inmarsat customers with value-added services in Asia...

Satellites Help Container Tracking

Northrop Grumman [NYSE: NOC] has signed an agreement with Orbcomm, a Dulles, Va.-based satellite communications provider, for Orbcomm to provide data transmission services through its low-orbit satellite network for container...

Amstrad Signs STB Deal With BSkyB

Amstrad, a U.K.-based supplier of digital satellite receivers, has signed two manufacture and supply agreements with British satellite broadcaster BSkyB. One is to supply Sky+ set-top boxes, and the second...

General Dynamics' Army Contract

The U.S. Army has selected General Dynamics Decision Systems, a unit of Falls Church, Va.-based General Dynamics [NYSE: GD], to integrate a voice and data communications system called the secure...

Canadian Forces Choose IDC

International Datacasting [Toronto: IDC] has won a contract to provide satellite datacasting services to Canadian armed forces deployed overseas. The one- year, C$3.6 million (US$2.47 million) contract calls for the...

ILS Blasts AsiaSat 4 Into Orbit

International Launch Services boosted AsiaSat 4, a high-power Boeing Satellite Systems 601HP spacecraft, into orbit aboard an Atlas IIIB vehicle on Friday at 8:47 p.m. EDT. The spacecraft separated from...