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As direct-to-home (DTH) operators look to offer new services such as PVRs (Personal Video Recorders) and High-Definition TV (HDTV), there are potential rich pickings for set- top box (STB) manufacturers...

SES Global said it awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Commercial Satellite Systems to build the latest addition to the SES Americom fleet. The satellite, named Americom-18 (AMC-18) will be...

Will private equity ownership of satellite carriers save the industry, or strangle it? Six of the industry’s top CEOs thrashed out this question before a standing-room-only crowd at SATELLITE 2005’s...

“Rationality” was the unlikely buzzword during “State of the Industry: An Overview of 2005 & Beyond,” the opening session of Satellite Finance 2005 on March 22 at SATELLITE 2005. Unlikely,...

The developing markets such as Africa and certain areas in the Asia-Pacific region present a unique opportunity for satellite companies to not only strengthen their revenues, but to help build...

“Satellite radio was clearly the success story of 2004 [and] the story of 2005 will be Fixed Satellite Services (FSS),” said David Kestenbaum, senior analyst of satellite, cable and broadcasting...

As they strive to improve profitability and as they work to meet the U.S. Defense Department‘s often complex requirements for space-based technology, aerospace companies want the government to continue working...

With the recent ruling by the Federal Communications Commission reaffirming its decision to allow satellite operators to integrate ancillary terrestrial components (ATC) to existing Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) systems (SN,...

Boeing and The DirecTV Group Inc. said the Spaceway F1 satellite arrived at Sea Launch home port in Long Beach, CA, where it will undergo final preparations for a late...

“We are not pushing for the two consortia to join together, definitely not,” Rainer Grohe, executive director of the Galileo Joint Undertaking (GJU), told Satellite News when asked whether the...