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Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 83 degreesE: Insat-2E D – Doordarshan’s DD1 General Hindi service is available […]

UK teleport operator Kingston TLI has won the contract to beam the B4U movie channel to the Middle East. B4U stands for Bollywood For You; Bollywood is the popular name […]

German general interest channels Sat 1, Pro 7 and Kabel 1 will get new managing directors after the planned unification of Sat 1 and Pro Sieben Media. According to a […]

Financially troubled Globalstar took the unusual step of deliberately defaulting on a $250 million bank credit line to get an additional six months of cash for its faltering satellite phone […]

German news channel n-tv majority owned by CNN/Time Warner, announced improved financial figures at a press conference in Berlin. According to managing director Kenneth Jautz, 2000 marks a business year […]

By Gerry Oberst This column noted in January that the European Union (EU) is in the midst of reviewing and restructuring its entire telecommunications regulatory structure, in the so-called “1999 […]

By Theresa Foley By year end, the satellite industry will know whether 2000 will be remembered as the launching point for massive new satellite broadband services, or as the second […]

By Mark Crossman and Anh Steininger During an investor meeting held in New York on May 16th, Loral informed investors and analysts of the company’s progress since the end of […]

By James Careless If there’s something most satellite service providers don’t worry about it’s hackers. Small wonder, says Simon Bull, senior consultant at Comsys, the U.K.-based publisher of the annual […]

By Clayton Mowry Rocket launches, as well as the risks they convey, are part of most satellite executives’ daily lives. Without these expendable launch vehicles (ELVs), we’d have no way […]

By Peter Brown Well-established VSAT hardware vendors, satellite operators and other satellite solution providers are starting to roll out a long list of new satellite-based Internet access platforms and services […]

Wayne Kauffman has joined Spectrum Astro Inc. as director of West Coast operations, responsible for managing the Manhattan Beach, Calif., office. He will be the company’s liaison with its West […]

The Orbital Imaging Corp. subsidiary of Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] will participate in the Geography Network, an Internet-based global marketplace for geographic data and services. Orbimage will supply its high-resolution, […]

Technicians at Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK] completed qualification testing of the solid rocket booster motor that will be used as rocket boosters with The Boeing Co.’s [BA] new Delta 4 […]

Orbital Sciences Corp.’s [ORB] majority-owned Canadian subsidiary, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), has won a $50 million contract for the next-generation robotic arm on the International Space Station. The […]

Even though the aviation industry continues to hold the cornerstone for Global Positioning System applications, end users outside the cockpit are not only realizing the value of this satellite technology, […]

Doing business in the mobile satellite sector continues to be a challenging feat. The latest low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite system to face a cash squeeze is Orbcomm Global L.P. [ORB], the […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] plans to eliminate the jobs of up to 900 workers who work on the Delta launchers and the C-17 military cargo plane in Huntington Beach, Calif., […]

NASA officials were all smiles June 30 when its next-generation of communications satellites successfully reached orbit aboard an Atlas 2A rocket. Marketed by International Launch Services (ILS), The Atlas 2A […]

The much-delayed Russian-built Zvezda service module finally may reach the International Space Station (ISS) in a few weeks. Following a General Designer’s Review meeting in Moscow June 26, NASA and […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] won a contract to launch Canada’s Radarsat 2 satellite aboard a Delta 2 rocket in three years. The launch is planned for April 2003, from Vandenberg […]

MultiChoice, a South African supplier of pay-TV programming to 44 countries in Africa and adjacent islands, has leased three transponders on Eutelsat’s W4 satellite, which went into service on July […]

Those entrepreneurs finalizing business plans in hopes of successfully entering the broadband market may want to pay close attention to the recent lesson PanAmSat Corp. [SPOT] learned when the FCC […]

Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) announced a joint venture with APT Satellite Company Ltd. of Hong Kong, owner and operator of the three-satellite Apstar 1, 1A and 2R system. The agreement was […]

Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] said it supplied 11 Qualcomm Inc. [QCOM] phones to the South Korean delegation to the recent Summit Meeting between the presidents of South and North Korea. South […]

Orbcomm Global L.P. [ORB]announced the commercial availability of the Stellar Communications ST2500 GSM subscriber communicator (SC), which can use either GSM cellular systems that are widely used outside North American, […]

Qualcomm Inc. [QCOM], which supplies trucking companies with its satellite-based OmniTracs automatic vehicle location and tracking service, has begun a program to expand the service to metropolitan fleet owners, privates […]

NEW YORK–Market understanding and flexibility will be the keys to success for next-generation broadband satellite systems. “We are getting close to realizing the next generation of broadband systems,” said Eugene […]

Iridium LLC could end up becoming the Timex of the mobile satellite industry – it takes a licking and keeps on ticking. In the latest news, the debtors of Iridium […]

Walter Purnell, president and CEO of Motient Corp. [MTNT], recently sat down with MOBILE SATELLITE NEWS to discuss the role that a terrestrial wireless data network has played in a […]