Author: Staff Writer

Sat 2000 was highly focused on (or obsessed by) the problems surrounding the industry’s two recent high profile MSS failures, namely Iridium and ICO. Numerous reports at the convention suggest...

Austrian public broadcaster ORF has formalised its decision to use Kirch Group’s d-box encryption system Betacrypt for the satellite transmission of its domestic television channels on Astra (19.2 degrees East)....

Independent analysts and investment bankers revealed markedly divergent views on the prospects for the future of global mobile at last week’s Sat 2000 conference in Washington DC… Mixed fortunes were...

Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 62 degrees E: Intelsat-602 D. Iran has joined the digital revolution at last. Sahar Universal Network, a cultural and educational channel, has launched...

British Telecom (BT) has opened a second North American teleport facility in Marina del Rey, California, close to Los Angeles. The centre will provide a full range of satellite, fibre...

Boeing’s Sea Launch confirmed it had won a major contract with PanAmSat. The deal calls for a single launch in the second quarter of 2000 (of PAS-9, a Hughes-built HS601...

Following the recent launch of a pay-TV channel dedicated to the Milan club, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) has come up with the idea of a launching a satellite channel...

Orbital Sciences and Teleglobe, partners in the Orbcomm LEO-based short messaging platform, have restructured the ownership of the company and increased its capital by approximately $100 million. Teleglobe becomes the...

Satellite operators and builders will continue to struggle to secure finance for new projects (at least for the time being) in the wake of the highly publicised bankruptcies, launch failures...

Spain’s Hispasat 1C, built by Alcatel, was successfully launched from an Atlas IIAS rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Station last Wednesday (February 2). International Launch Services co-ordinated the launch. Hispasat...