Author: Staff Writer

The World Teleport Association announced Sept. 15 that Gerhard Bommas, chief technology officer of ND Satcom, and Malcolm Warren, director of Asia-Pacific for Viasat, have been elected to the WTA’s...

Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] and Raytheon Co. [RTN} test fired the stage 1 motor for the Kinetic Energy Interceptor, Northrop announced. This test marks the second in a series of...

British Telecom (BT) has announced plans to move its satellite communications business from Goonhilly, England, marking the end of operations for the world’s largest satellite Earth station. Despite its 61...

The Air Force gave Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] a $589.6 million contract to provide services for the Air and Space Operations Center. Lockheed Martin Mission Systems, of Colorado Springs, Colo.,...

DirecTV and Echostar have nearly 30 million subscribers in the U.S. between them. While they continue to trail established cable competitors in total subscribers, the two satellite operators also must...

The hiring of Daniel Goldberg as president and CEO of Telesat Canada has led to anticipation of an initial public offering (IPO) or private equity sale of the Canadian satellite...

If concern about Hurricane Ernesto proved a bit overblown, a new level of preparedness got rolling in the form of the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s (NGA) new Domestic Mobile Integrated...

Internet Pro-tocol (IP) TV and high-definition (HD) TV and their potential impact on the satellite industry and telecommunications world as a whole were among the hot topics at the International...

SIRI, XMSR A merger of satellite radio operators Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio makes sense in terms of pricing and operations costs, Credit Suisse media equity analyst Bryan...