Author: Staff Writer

Lessons Learned from Iridium, ICO, and Globalstar – Part 3 The aerospace industry has been notorious for over-runs on government programs. However, the commercial space industry has been operated like...

Orbcomm Files For Voluntary Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection In a move that should have come as no surprise to industry observers, Orbcomm Global L.P. [ORB] voluntarily filed for Chapter 11...

In another shrewd financing move by Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. [GSTRF], the company has secured an additional $105 million. The company earlier this week (Sept. 19) announced that it has entered...

It seems like Wall Street was ready for Orbcomm’s filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection, at least in terms of how it affected one of its parent companies – Orbital...

The calling capacity of the Asia Cellular Satellite’s Garuda 1 mobile services satellite “is likely to be limited by an antenna-related anomaly discovered…during testing by its manufacturer, Lockheed Martin Corp.”...

Hughes Space and Communications Co. [GMH] will build at least three additional satellites for New ICO, the reorganized and refinanced company that has emerged from the bankrupt ICO Global Communications....

Belgium telecom operator Belgacom and Eutelsat have launched a new service called Internet Over Satellite, which is aimed at ISPs and corporate users located in areas with poor terrestrial infrastructure....

Eutelsat’s W1 satellite was successfully launched by Ariane V132. The Ariane 44P rocket, delivered by Arianespace, took off from Kourou, French Guyana. Control of the satellite by CNES in Toulouse...

Australia’s CSIRO has designed a new multibeam antenna which, it claims, unlike the existing antenna systems where one dish receives the signal from a single satellite, this antenna can receive...

Telenor of Norway is set to buy around one third of Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications’ (LMGT) stake in Inmarsat Ventures Limited. Following the transaction, LMGT’s stake in Inmarsat will be...