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Saunders Kramer passed away Monday in Washington, DC, after complications following heart surgery. While at Lockheed Missiles and Space in the late 1950s, Kramer was among the earliest designers of […]

Lowrance Electronics Inc., a maker of GPS user equipment, posted a 2005 third quarter profit of $6.4 million, down from earnings of $6.7 million in the same period in 2004, […]

EMS Satcom, a division of EMS Technologies Inc., named Lindsay, Ontario-based Tech Electronic Services as an authorized distributor of EMS’s eNcompass line of satellite communication products. Tech Electronic Services will […]

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) performed a 5-second test firing of its main engine May 28, SpaceX announced. The wet dress rehearsal took place at the company’s Space Launch Complex-3 West […]

Radyne Comstream Inc. announced May 31 that it completed its acquisition of Xicom Technology. After final adjustments, Radyne paid $37.7 million in cash, 219,708 shares of stock and assumed $5.1 […]

Americom Government Services Inc. (AGS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES Americom, said May 31 it received a contract through prime contractor Innovative Technologies Inc. to provide the satellite communications bandwidth […]

Novatel Inc. claims to be the first company to demonstrate a dual mode GPS and Galileo L1/E5A dual frequency prototype receiver in North America. Novatel made the claim even though […]

Globalstar introduced May 31 Express Data, a subscription-based service that allows users to send e-mail, transfer files and browse the Internet two to five times faster than the 9.6 kilobits […]

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. reached a settlement with the government of Israel covering six years of tax assessments against the company, Gilat announced May 30. Under the settlement, Gilat agreed […]

Hughes Network Systems LLC said May 31 the subscriber base for its Direcway two-way broadband satellite service has exceeded the 250,000-subscriber milestone during the second quarter of 2005. “For the […]

In today’s fast-pace business environment, most organizations cannot operate without a reliable communications platform. Such is the case for Conservation International (CI). Founded in 1987, CI is a U.S.-based, nonprofit […]

Managing a global business is a daunting task, especially for those in charge of corporate training and communications. Making sure all employees, regardless of geographic location, remain up to date […]

It wasn’t too long ago when hybrid networks using satellite and terrestrial technologies were not an option for corporate communication infrastructures. It was either one or the other, but never […]

Bell Canada announced May 27 it will deploy a new encryption platform for its Bell ExpressVu direct-to-home satellite television service to help protect against signal theft. As of July 1, […]

Foxcom, Inc. with offices in Israel and the United States, hired George Combes and Steve Fendley covering the U.S. West Coast/Latin America and APAC respectively. “We are excited about adding […]

The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has stepped up its actions to combat piracy in Hong Kong. Most recently, the association filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction […]

Optus, Australia’s second largest telco and a subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., said its aging B1 satellite experienced an outage last week. The May 23outage was caused by a failure […]

The Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group said May 30 it launched a new Global Uplinker Registry, which will provide regional and local uplinkers with a central means of increasing their […]

The Wall Street Journal Reported May 31 that XM Satellite Radio awarded the contract for its fifth satellite to Loral Space and Communications, though the article did not get formal […]

Thai Shin Satellite plans to launch its Ipstar satellite no later than July 18 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket, according to documents the company filed with the Stock Exchange of […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. announced May 27, as this issue of Satellite News was going to press, that U.S. government agents executed search warrants at the company’s Dulles, Va., and Chandler, […]

A group of creditors who hold more than $379 million of outstanding notes of Satelites Mexicanos, S.A. de C.V. (Satmex) filed an involuntary Chapter 11 petition May 26 against the […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. announced May 27 as this issue of Satellite News was going to press that U.S. government agents executed search warrants at its Dulles, Va., and Chandler, Ariz., […]

Connexion by Boeing, a business unit of Boeing Co. that offers satellite broadband connectivity distributed through a Wi-Fi connection to laptops of airline passengers, learned a valuable lesson during the […]

With the official commercial launch of WildBlue‘s two-way satellite Internet slated for this week, company CEO Tom Moore is confident that the delays in getting to this point ultimately will […]

Panamsat‘s QuickSpot service, a bandwidth on demand service that was developed to meet the growing need for flexibility in provisioning satellite services requiring a mobile “pay-as-you-go” model, has expanded. Initially, […]

Satellite pay-TV operators in Europe reported mixed results for the first quarter of 2005. In the post-holiday market, the rate of growth is traditionally slower and the numbers reflect that […]

Panamsat Holding Corp. continues to rise, ending the 10 trading days leading to our May 26 publication deadline for this issue at a historic high of $19.70 per share since […]

International Launch Services (ILS) placed the DirecTV 8 satellite into orbit May 22 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Proton Breeze M rocket. Satellite controllers confirmed that the […]

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) said the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorized the launch and operation of a next-generation L-band satellite at 101 degrees West. This follows the April 5 […]