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By D.K.Sachdev Modern satellite systems stand out among technologies that can serve the needs of homeland security by offering unmatched capabilities for wide-area communications coverage. If appropriate redundancy and hardening...

The half-dozen applications listed above are only the tip of the iceberg. Much more can be done with existing operational systems. Some of the ideas and concepts still on the...

Week of Oct. 24 – 30, 2003 Percentage Change Operators Symbol Oct. 30 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 2.21 (1.3) 6.3...

The recently unveiled changes in how Cablevision Systems [NYSE: CVC] plans to spin-off its fledgling Rainbow DBS satellite TV service could become a prelude to future bold moves in the...

NEW YORK– Business conditions for the satellite industry are improving slowly, but the go-go times of the late 1990s will not return in the foreseeable future. This was the consensus...

Intelsat appears to have fended off EchoStar Communications [Nasdaq: DISH] by winning approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York to buy the North American...

The process has been slow but Hamilton, Bermuda-based Intelsat Ltd. moved another step closer to buying Loral’s North American assets last week. The satellite services operator also showed why it...

Telesat, an Ottawa, Canada-based satellite services subsidiary of BCE [NYSE: BCE], is expanding its operations in the United States, choosing metropolitan Detroit as its new U.S. hub. The company is...

By Jimmy Schaeffler Three developments in the U.S. satellite TV arena are especially worth highlighting this month. First, there was an impressive rollout by Cablevision Systems [NYSE: CVC] of its...

British satellite TV provider BSkyB is entering a critical few months for its Sky+ DVR (digital video recorder) offering. The News Corp [NYSE: NWS] subsidiary aims to triple the number...