Author: Staff Writer

Lockheed Martin announced today that Marshall Byrd has been appointed vice president and general manager of its Commercial Space Systems. He succeeds Ted Gavrilis, retired after 36 years at Lockheed...

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) and European satellite manufacturer Astrium GmbH signed an Aug. 30 contract for building the TanDEM-X satellite. Due to launch in 2009 for a five-year operation,...

European Satellite Link GmbH (ESL) acquired marine and land mobile satcoms specialist Hanika ESS GmbH in an Aug. 31 deal. ESL is a Nera Satcom products and service source in...

Tandberg Television today announced that MyNetworkTV, a new primetime network with 167 affiliates representing 96 percent of American television households, has chosen it to provide both high- and standard-definition MPEG-2...

Alexander Jeuck has been named president of ND Satcom-Abu Dhabi. An SES Astra company and global supplier of satellite-based broadband VSAT, ND Satcom-Abu Dhabi provides government, defense and broadcast communications...

Alcatel Alenia Space has been boosted by the news that Eutelsat will retain it for the design, manufacturing, assembling, tests and on-ground delivery of the W2A satellite. Scheduled for launch...

By Gerry Oberst In the last days of August, the European Commission released a series of studies it requested from outside experts to help prepare a review of the European...

By Peter Brown More than 800 emergency response and technical support personnel along with two dozen or so satellite-equipped vehicles descended on San Diego in late August for the Strong...

Systems By Greg Berlocher Since their inception, network management systems have made the metamorphic change from basic monitoring aids to feature-rich management tools. Built on powerful and robust computing platforms,...

By Peter J. Brown The movie industry is waking up to the fact that satellite-based distribution today represents a viable alternative to the old way of distributing films. When it...