Author: Staff Writer

SelecTV deployed Harmonic Inc.‘s Internet Protocol (IP)-based compression and multiplexing solutions for its direct-to-home satellite pay-TV service in Australia, Harmonic announced July 13. SelecTV will use the Divicom Electra 1000...

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, has 10 launches on its manifest, according to the company. Late this year, SpaceX will use the Falcon 1 rocket in a launch for...

Canalsat selected Tandberg Television‘s high-definition (HD) MPEG-4 AVC video encoding and distribution system for the launch of its HD service, Tandberg Television announced July 13. Canalsat HD will begin before...

Loral Space and Communications [LORL] will supply satellite communications for Chile. A unit of the company, Loral Skynet do Brasil, won a contract from the Chilean Empresa Nacional de Telecomunicaciones...

Globalstar Australia completed an equity purchase with Tenzeng Pty Ltd. to launch a suite of asset tracking services in the Australian market, Pivotel Group, Globalstar Australia’s parent company, announced. Tenzeng’s...

The Army and Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] selected General Dynamics Corp. [GD] to provide the unitary warhead for the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS). The warhead is in system...

SES Americom announced July 11 its Redisat network is available in the United States. The network, which targets first responders, emergency management professionals and private enterprises, supplies satellite space bandwidth...

Canadian Satellite Radio (CSR), which operates XM Canada, will raise its monthly price in order to offset its financial losses, the company announced July 13. New subscribers to the satellite...

When Canada’s Bell Expressvu and Star Choice launched their direct-to-home (DTH) services in 1997, the cable TV industry nicknamed them "The Death Stars," fearing that consumers – many who were...