Author: Staff Writer

Boeing Co. will pay SES Americom $70 million as part of the shutdown of the Connexion By Boeing inflight Internet service, SES Global announced Oct. 3. Boeing is using the...

Sirius Satellite Radio added 441,000 net subscribers in the 2006 third quarter, raising its total base to 5.1 million, the company announced Oct. 4. In the same period, XM Satellite...

Datapath Inc. announced Oct. 4 that it won a $181 million contract by the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command to provide specialized satellite communications networks for the Joint Network Node (JNN)...

Zodiac Maritime Agencies Ltd., an international ship-management company, has equipped its fleet of 132 ships with an Iridium Satellite-based e-mail system supplied by And Group. Each shipboard package includes a...

NDS won a contract from Romtelecom, Romania’s largest telco, to provide a system for a new direct-to-home (DTH) platform, NDS announced. Romtelecom will deploy a full end-to-end system that includes...

GMV Space Systems Inc. received a contract from Orbital Sciences Corp. to provide flight-dynamics software for the Thor 2-R telecommunications satellite, GMV announced. Orbital received a contract from Telenor ASA...

Lars Bjerde has been named president of mobile satellite communications equipment provider Swe-Dish Satellite Systems, the company announced Oct. 2. Bjerde, who will join Swe- Dish in November, previously has...

“Space and Satellites: State of the Investment Climate” is the topic of an Oct. 19 executive lunch sponsored by the Washington Space Business Roundtable. Hoyt Davidson, CEO and managing member...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission granted anti-trust clearance to the United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture that will combine the government launch operations of Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin...

Globalstar Inc. is planning an initial public offering of 6.5 million shares priced at between $16 per share and $18 per share, the company said in an Oct. 2 filing...