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WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the near term, volatility in launch insurance and in-orbit coverage will continue as satellite manufacturers and launch services providers struggle to improve their fleets of satellites...

Week of Feb. 21 – 27, 2003 Percentage Change Symbol Feb. 27 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.57 (0.6) (10.3)...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -Large satellite operators looking for merger partners are unlikely to forge deals anytime soon. For example, Eutelsat’s shareholders appear content to wait until valuations rise before considering the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -The troubled economy in Latin America has not deterred a number of satellite operators in that marketplace from making strategic plans to invest heavily to grow their services...

By Marc A. De Simone Satellite industry executives likely remember the increased demand on their services and the strain on their employees immediately after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11,...

Space Imaging Southeast Asia, an affiliate of U.S.-based Space Imaging, has begun direct tasking and data collection of high-resolution imagery from the IKONOS satellite. The operations as well as the...

France Telecom’s Mobile Satellite Communications unit is extending the range of mobile satellite services by teaming up with Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications, a handheld satellite telephone service based in the Middle...

Telesat Canada on Feb. 20 experienced a malfunction on its Nimiq 2 satellite that affected the available power on the spacecraft. The company took steps to restore the affected traffic....

Satellite capacity will play a bigger role in Asia, particularly in countries such as India and Bangladesh, where there are fewer terrestrial alternatives for telecoms and data services, according to...

By Juliette Salvati Considered by many, in the 1990s, to be the next big step in satellite communications, and subsequently rejected at the outset of the tech bubble crash, the...