Author: Staff Writer

To be successful, a satellite service must be competitive with a terrestrial alternative if one is available. The level of service must equal or exceed the terrestrial service at a...

By James Careless Tough slogging: that is the outlook for the satellite Internet market. Whether it is selling direct Internet access to consumers or providing backbone links for ISPs, there...

by Peter J. Brown The satellite industry is looking for new opportunities while trying to keep up with the demand for more services. A steady proliferation of robust fixed, portable...

by Chris Mecray Two of the major U.S. satellite launch providers, Boeing and Lockheed Martin, have just completed $1.5 billion in investments in upgraded launch vehicles (not including government development...

by Peter J. Brown The satellite industry is looking for new opportunities while trying to keep up with the demand for more services. A steady proliferation of robust fixed, portable...

Mobile satellite operators should benefit from a Federal Communications Commission decision to let them add wireless capabilities as ancillary terrestrial component (ATC) services. High-profile business failures by mobile satellite services...

Televigation, a provider of wireless motion-based technology and services, has debuted its TeleNav service, which gives owners of certain Java (J2ME) mobile phones the ability to navigate turn-by-turn to virtually...

Washington-based XM Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: XMSR], which has been the target of protesters seeking expanded minority-oriented programming, is preparing to offer 350 hours of minority-oriented programming across 19 channels in...

Artemis has finally reached geostationary orbit, some 36,000 kilometers above the Earth, at 21.5 degreesE, the European Space Agency announced Friday. The satellite was orginally launched July 12, 2001, into...

Orbital Sciences Corp. [NYSE: ORB] has been awarded a major contract by the U.S. Air Force to provide space launch and missile defense target vehicles using deactivated Peacekeeper ICBM assets...