Author: Staff Writer

Financially troubled Globalstar took the unusual step of deliberately defaulting on a $250 million bank credit line to get an additional six months of cash for its faltering satellite phone...

German news channel n-tv majority owned by CNN/Time Warner, announced improved financial figures at a press conference in Berlin. According to managing director Kenneth Jautz, 2000 marks a business year...

Scandinavian Pay-TV operator Viasat is taking additional capacity on NSAB’s Sirius at 5 degrees East to simultaneously launch a digital TV platform in the Baltic region alongside the already announced...

Despite official announcements that BSkyB will not shutdown its analogue service until 2001 it is now clear that Sky is well underway in a gradual switch-off. The latest announcement is...

SES-Astra has signed up Kokua Communications as its first European Ka-Band return path client. SES says there are other major announcements pending. The deal calls for Kokua to use capacity...

By Gerry Oberst This column noted in January that the European Union (EU) is in the midst of reviewing and restructuring its entire telecommunications regulatory structure, in the so-called “1999...

By Theresa Foley By year end, the satellite industry will know whether 2000 will be remembered as the launching point for massive new satellite broadband services, or as the second...

By Mark Crossman and Anh Steininger During an investor meeting held in New York on May 16th, Loral informed investors and analysts of the company’s progress since the end of...

By James Careless If there’s something most satellite service providers don’t worry about it’s hackers. Small wonder, says Simon Bull, senior consultant at Comsys, the U.K.-based publisher of the annual...

By Clayton Mowry Rocket launches, as well as the risks they convey, are part of most satellite executives’ daily lives. Without these expendable launch vehicles (ELVs), we’d have no way...