Author: Staff Writer

A new company for the new commercial era the satellite industry is entering has come into being in the form of ManSat. Encouraged by the fact that commercial investment in...

The Boeing Co.’s [BA] third-quarter earnings rose to $609 million, or 70 cents per share, on revenues of $11.88 billion. The result compares with a profit of $477 million, or...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded RadarSat International (RSI) the rights to distribute ERS and Envisat satellite data worldwide. “This contract gives us an excellent opportunity to build the...

At 8:40 p.m. EDT Oct. 19, a Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT]-built Atlas 2A rocket soared into space from Pad 36A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Less than 30...

Inetcable.com Inc. of Ottawa, an applications service provider, has selected BroadLogic Network Technologies Inc. of Milpitas, Calif., to supply it with BroadLogic’s Satellite Express desktop satellite receiver so it can...

Globalstar [GSTRF] and Arnav Systems Inc. of Puyallup, Wash., said Arnav will use the Globalstar system to provide satellite-based voice and data communications to the general aviation market. General aviation...

Qualcomm Inc. [QCOM] of San Diego has joined the SkyBridge LP group of companies planning to build an 80-satellite low-Earth-orbit system for high-speed Internet connections. It will contribute its code...

Caltiger.com, a leading ISP in India, will use Loral CyberStar’s high-speed, satellite-based WorldCast Premier Internet access service to speed up Internet content delivery to its end users. The contract will...

Pro Sieben intends to relaunch its promotion service for the six channel audio system Dolby Digital 5.1, in which the German general interest channel has been airing selected movies since...

Eutelsat, the European satellite operator, announced that the W1 satellite, which was launched on September 6 by Ariane V132, has gone into full commercial service at 10 degrees East. Traffic...