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By Paul Dykewicz Sirius Satellite Radio is the Rodney Dangerfield of satellite broadcasting. The company gets little or no respect, just as the famous American comedian humorously laments about himself...

The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources (DMR) has elected to incorporate DigitalGlobe’s innovative QuickBird satellite imagery into its current geographic information system (GIS) to help with the management and protection...

By Maury Mechanick, White & Chase On June 24, the Federal Communications Commission released two orders dealing with the consequences of failure to comply with milestone requirements contained in licenses...

Loral Skynet, a satellite-operating subsidiary of Loral Space and Communications, is hoping for an upswing in fortunes over the next few months. While its parent company has had to deal...

By Kirby Ikin The world is entering an interesting new era as China ventures into manned space flight. Following in the footsteps of only two other nations, China has embarked...

By Paul Dykewicz, Antitrust regulators and a top Wall Street analyst made good calls last week regarding New Skies Satellites N.V. [NSK]. The Blackstone Group, a private investment firm, received...

The availability of substantial additional fuel onboard Loral Space and Communications’ Telstar 18 satellite allowed the spacecraft to be maneuvered into its proper orbital position, and it may even allow...

The investigation into what caused the Zenit-3SL upper stage to halt its second burn almost a full minute earlier than scheduled currently centers around a Russia commission that was formed...

Congressional interest in pursuing legislation to let U.S. television viewers pick and choose the individual channels they want to buy each month from their satellite and cable TV providers is...

Patrick Brant, former president and COO of Loral CyberStar, is joining satellite phone service Iridium Satellite LLC as its newest executive-team member. Brant will serve in a multi-dimensional role as...