Author: Staff Writer

Hughes Network Systems (HNS) has signed a contract with AmazonTech to provide a comprehensive satellitesolution for the SIVAM (System for the Vigilance of the Amazon) program. AmazonTech will deploy the...

Global Positioning System receiver developer Fastrax and Globalpoint, a U.K. technology company specializing in asset tracking applications, have introduced the Globalpoint Companion product line, which includes miniature tracking beacons with...

Qualcomm [Nasdaq: QCOM] has tested the first assisted-Global Positioning System position location sessions over live GSM communications networks using its MGP6200 multimode GPS processor. The location calls, made in Europe...

ABC News has agreed to purchase On2 Technologies‘ [AMEX: ONT] Laptop News Gathering (LNG) system to enable its correspondents covering the Iraqi crisis to transmit reports via satellite. The unit...

British Airways [NYSE: BAB] is trying out the new Connexion by Boeing‘s in-flight satellite broadband service onboard a daily transatlantic flight between London and New York. The service gives passengers...

Telesat Canada on Thursday 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. The...

National Scientific [OTC: NSCT] is teaming with Verify Systems to develop and provide a mobile wireless platform for its iVERIFIED school bus rider authentication system. iVERIFIED allows school systems to...

Raytheon [NYSE: RTN] has completed contractor acceptance and inspection for the Federal Aviation Administration‘s Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), a component in the agency’s next-generation space-based aircraft navigation and landing...

Space Imaging Southeast Asia, an affiliate of Space Imaging (Denver, Colo.), has begun direct tasking and data collection of high-resolution imagery from the IKONOS satellite. The operations as well as...

France Telecom‘s [NYSE: FTE] Mobile Satellite Communications unit is extending the range of mobile satellite services by teaming up with Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications, a handheld satellite telephone service based in...