Author: Staff Writer

WildBlue Inc. of Denver, formerly iSky, said it has invested in a semiconductor design company, U.S. Monolithics LLC, that will play a key role in Wild Blue’s construction of a...

The troubles of the mobile satellite industry have been documented well in the trade press. From the high-profile bankruptcy of Iridium LLC to the recent financial troubles at Orbcomm [ORB],...

The two US DTH platforms continue to show healthy growth. Latest figures from Bank of America (BoA) securities suggest that DirecTV and Echostar’s DiSH system will be touching a combined...

Satelites Mexicanos SA de CV’s (Satmex) Solidaridad 1 satellite has ceased operation and is now considered “irretrievably lost” by the company. The loss was caused by the failure of the...

Italy’s Profit Group plans to launch five thematic free-to-air satellite TV channels. So far, Profit has mainly concentrated its activities in the terrestrial TV sector – it owns local broadcasters...

The Italian government aims to partly privatise public broadcaster RAI, with a plan to float its two main channels now high on the agenda. The plan was officially discussed during...

Two years after the Italian Bishops Conference (CEI) launched its own free-to-air satellite TV channel Sat 2000, the Catholic broadcaster is planning to branch out terrestrially with multilingual syndicated programming....

Loral Space & Communications is to expand its fixed satellite services (FSS) fleet by adding the new Estrela do Sul satellite in 2002, currently under construction by Space Systems/Loral. Loral...

Few at the Euroconsult Financing Summit had kind words for LEO constellation Globalstar. Stephane Chenard, Euroconsult’s executive vice president and chief analyst, said there was still far too much bad...

The initiative comes along with a new managing director, Nick Thompson, who recently joined UK-based Kingston from Loral Cyberstar. This week the company has also signed new uplink contracts. One...