Author: Staff Writer

Both DVB-RCS and DOCSIS offer varying degrees of viability for interactive satellite services, according to a study by Northern Sky Research. DVB-RCS is already a commercial reality, while DOCSIS over...

With the release last week of a “green paper” on Europe’s space policy, the European Commission and the European Space Agency are preparing to debate its future direction. The paper...

ORBIT/FR, a developer of microwave test and measurement systems for the aerospace industry, said Thursday that its shareholders approved a one-for-four reverse stock split of the company’s common stock. The...

Medweb will provide a mobile medical communications and triage vehicle and an instant Internet-enabled field clinic for the “Shadow Bowl” initiatives this weekend at the Super Bowl in San Diego....

Italy’s Alitalia has become the first airline to offer the Data3mail in-flight email service developed by ASI Entertainment [OTC: ASIQ]. Following the installation of ASI’s hardware and software platform, a...

Space Imaging, a satellite imagery provider, announced Thursday that John R. Copple, its CEO since 1995, has resigned from the company to pursue other opportunities. The board has negotiated an...

Satellite broadband hopeful WildBlue Communications has received $156 million in new investments. Liberty Satellite & Technology, Intelsat, National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC), Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and David Drucker,...

DirecTV Latin America (DLA) Chairman Kevin McGrath admitted to SATELLITE TODAY that the company has its work cut out to avoid going into bankruptcy protection. “I think the chance we...

Starz Encore Group and its sister company, International Channel Networks, have renewed satellite capacity contracts with PanAmSat [Nasdaq: SPOT]. As part of the agreement, Starz Encore (Englewood, Colo.) and International...

Space Imaging has been awarded a multi-year satellite imagery capacity contract by the U.S. Defense Department’s National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA). Under terms of the contract, NIMA would acquire...