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A report released at our deadline by the House Appropriations Committee challenges the government to choose just one U.S. company to service federal launch contracts, partly due to financial considerations...

Startups offer special challenges that include developing a workable and practical business plan, installing a management team with the right skills and obtaining sufficient financing. All those ingredients are needed...

Longmont, Colo.-based DigitalGlobe’s high-resolution QuickBird satellite images and Native Communities Development Corporation’s (NCDC) proprietary remote-sensing technology will be combined to aid with wildfire risk-assessment and emergency-response planning in California. The...

By Robert Bell, World Teleport Association There is an old joke in Washington, D.C., about the Department of Defense. The good news is that by 2010 (or another suitably distant...

There is little doubt India has the potential to be a huge market for satellite services — a major growth opportunity for numerous operators looking to boost their positions in...

BSkyB [BSY] has signaled its intention to be much more of a player in the lower-end segment of the U.K. digital television market. It will launch a Free-To-Air (FTA) satellite...

The need for 100,000 humanitarian- and reconstruction-aid workers worldwide to manage and communicate information and data quickly from remote parts of the world spurred a former refugee coordinator to start...

Jericho, N.Y.-based Rainbow DBS, Cablevision System’s [CVC] capacity-constrained satellite TV division, increased its in-orbit capabilities last week by agreeing to lease 16 transponders during the next 10 years from Princeton,...

By Paul Dykewicz, Senior Analyst/Senior Editor The chance to sell New Skies Satellites N.V. [NSK] for a whopping $956 million to affiliates of the Blackstone Group last week was too...

Tachyon Networks is joining in the celebration of graduating high-school students by donating the company’s bandwidth and remote-access satellite equipment to let their parents serving in the military in Iraq...