Author: Staff Writer

Canal+ Technologies CEO Francois Carayol is looking to take participate actively in the consolidation of the conditional access (CA) system and middleware industry consolidation. He told the PricewaterhouseCoopers’ European Media...

by Armand Musey Last month, we wrote how satellite television services are becoming the principal economic driver of the global satellite industry and what a merger of Echostar and Hughes...

By Nick Mitsis The landscape of competition and regional satellite services growth within Latin America continues to change. Alongside the growing capacity rate, more satellite companies are increasing their business...

by Richard DalBello The answer may be 36,021 km + (1000 * CR * A/m). As to the question, well, we have to go back a couple of decades to...

by Gerry Oberst The Financial Times calls it “a white elephant preparing for take-off.” The Wall Street Journal calls it a “duplicative system that replaces one that already exists and...

By Peter J. Brown When it comes to delivering Internet-based content and providing high-speed IP data services over satellite, the satellite industry’s radars are sweeping the sky, searching for the...

Theresa Foley The dust has cleared from the mobile satellite services (MSS) bankruptcies of the last few years, leaving a three-way contest among steady-sailing Inmarsat and its two restructured post-bankruptcy...

Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 83 degreesE: Insat 2E & 3B D – The Hindi language channel Asianet is present on 3694 MHz vertical, SR 4340, FEC 3/4,...

Last week saw the launch of the latest Star Wars film, “Attack of the Clones.” Appropriately, the film was “beamed” from space to the Ritzy Theatre in London’s Leicester Square,...

Arianespace has been boosted by the announcement of three new contract awards for the DirecTV-7s, iPSTAR-1 and Star One C1 satellites. “We are pleased that despite the market downturn, we...