PHC Poland To Offer DirecWay
Hughes Network Systems Europe (HNSE), a unit of Hughes Network Systems, has agreed to provide its DirecWay broadband satellite service to PHC Poland for resale to small and medium-sized businesses...
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Medical Images Via Satellite
Columbia, Md.-based Impact Labs and London-based AOS are demonstrating a system for compressing, securing, transmitting, and viewing medical images through the use of satellite terminals at the American Telemedicine Association....
Tyco To Supply Cable For Data
Tyco Telecommunications, a Morristown, N.J.-based business unit of Tyco Electronics, has been selected by a subsidiary of the Norwegian Space Center (NSC) to supply the Svalbard undersea cable system linking...
Connexion By Boeing Selects IONA
IONA [Nasdaq: IONA], a Waltham, Mass.-based provider of integration software, and Connexion By Boeing, a business unit of Boeing [NYSE: BA] that provides communication services to aircraft, have announced that...
Yukon Selects MetaSwitch
Yukon Telephone, the incumbent provider for the rural Alaskan communities of Whittier, Tanana and Ruby, has selected MetaSwitch’s VP3500 next-generation class 5 switch to replace its existing Mitel and Redcom...
The Satellite News Financial Ticker
Week of April 17 – 24, 2003 Percentage Change Symbol April 24 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.29 0.8 (14.0)...
Satellite Would Detect Killer Quakes
A start-up company has raised seed money and collaborated with a top-notch university to launch a satellite this summer aimed at detecting signs of earthquake activity in California with the...
Advanced Services Fuel Rivalry
The rollout of advanced video services is boosting the competitive pressures on cable and satellite TV providers. The advanced services feature enticing high-definition television (HDTV) and digital video recorder (DVR)...
FCC Revamps Satellite Licensing System
The Federal Communications Commission has adopted a “first-come, first-served” licensing process for geostationary satellite applications. The FCC, however, decided to retain the existing “processing round” system for non- geostationary satellite...
Spotlight: Hybrid Rocket Motor Showcased
A low-cost hybrid rocket propulsion system that would be able to launch micro-satellites for commercial and military applications appears to be moving toward reality. Poway, Calif.-based SpaceDev [OTCBB: SPDV], the...