Author: Staff Writer

By James Careless They’re the unsung heroes of the news: the dedicated, hard-working, and often ingeniously inventive people who operate SNG (satellite newsgathering) trucks out in the field. Never mind...

by David Hartshorn For every complex problem, there’s a simple solution–and it’s wrong. The satellite industry rewrote that proverb when it successfully developed and implemented a simple process for a...

This past year was a mixed bag for the satellite industry. It saw a respectable rise in the number of satellites launched and an astounding increase in the number of...

by Marc Crossman and Aileen Chen After another quarter showing insufficient growth in subscribers and in revenues, Globalstar is failing once again to prove to investors that its strategy and...

by Theresa Foley Broadband satellite customers want a lot more than raw satellite capacity and are willing to pay a premium for bundled “end-to-end” services, according to satellite service providers...

by Gerry Oberst Just as the conflicts raged between the British and expanding Russian empires across Central Asia in the 19th century, battles between terrestrial and satellite operators are fought...

The European Commission said it has approved Eutelsat’s proposed restructuring into a private company, including the IPO of 30 percent of its shares within two years of its privatization. The...

Saab Ericsson Space and Stork N.V., aerospace companies in Sweden and The Netherlands, respectively, have agreed to buy Fokker Space, one of the other Dutch suppliers to the space industry....

Societe Europeenne des Satellites (SES), operator of the Astra system, has ordered its tenth satellite, the Astra 3A, from the Boeing Satellite Systems subsidiary of The Boeing Co. [BA], formerly...

Closer attention to detail, open dialogue from project beginning to project end throughout all mission levels and proper knowledge transference topped the list of actions to be adopted for future...