Author: Staff Writer

The scheduled March 14 launch of the Hellas-Sat satellite on an Atlas V rocket has been postponed by International Launch Services (ILS) after company officials detected a flaw in the...

Potential mergers between large satellite operators are looking increasingly unlikely anytime soon, according to industry leaders who spoke Wednesday at a panel discussion during the SATELLITE 2003 conference. A major...

AsiaSat CEO Peter Jackson said at the SATELLITE 2003 show that China will be a key target market for the satellite operator. Despite excess capacity in the region, AsiaSat is...

Despite tough economic conditions, many leading industry experts believe the Latin American market could see a recovery in 2003. This was one of the main conclusions of a panel discussing...

Telesat Canada on Feb. 20 experienced a malfunction on its Nimiq 2 satellite that affected the available power on the spacecraft. The company took steps to restore the affected traffic....

Satellite capacity will play a bigger role in Asia, particularly in countries such as India and Bangladesh, where there are fewer terrestrial alternatives for telecoms and data services, according to...

By Juliette Salvati Considered by many, in the 1990s, to be the next big step in satellite communications, and subsequently rejected at the outset of the tech bubble crash, the...

New Skies Satellites (NYSE: NSK) and Intelsat have signed a deal to use their existing orbital and satellite resources at a single orbital location to expand their respective commercial service...

Boeing has high hopes for its Connexion service, an airline in-flight broadband service aimed at providing passengers with better entertainment and Internet access via satellite. Recently, Boeing signed a deal...

The CEOs of satellite radio firms Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI] and XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] said that their jointly funded efforts to develop interoperable receivers need “significant” additional work that...