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Alcatel Space CEO Pascale Sourisse told journalists Friday morning at the SATELLITE 2003 show that the satellite manufacturer expected there to be more satellite orders in both the commercial and […]

Ka-band broadband satellite services could get a huge shot in the arm if Hughes Network Systems‘ SpaceWay shows signs of early success, observed Greg Caressi, research director of telecom services […]

During these times of increased use of commercial satellite equipment and services by the U.S. military, companies looking to do business with the Department of Defense (DoD) need to set […]

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 and rockets. This […]

Despite tough economic conditions, many leading industry experts believe the Latin American market could see a recovery in 2003. This was one of the main conclusions of a panel discussing […]

AsiaSat CEO Peter Jackson said at the SATELLITE 2003 show that China will be a key target market for the satellite operator. Despite excess capacity in the region, AsiaSat is […]

Potential mergers between large satellite operators are looking increasingly unlikely anytime soon, according to industry leaders who spoke Wednesday at a panel discussion during the SATELLITE 2003 conference. A major […]

The scheduled March 14 launch of the Hellas-Sat satellite on an Atlas V rocket has been postponed by International Launch Services (ILS) after company officials detected a flaw in the […]

Boeing [NYSE: BA] has selected Dave Ryan to lead its Boeing Satellite Systems unit. Ryan, a 13-year Boeing employee, succeeds Randy Brinkley, who will leave the company on June 1. […]

Orbital Recovery has selected Arianespace as the primary launcher for its geosynchronous spacecraft life extension system (SLES), or “space tug,” agreeing to orbit at least four space tugs beginning in […]

BSkyB could reach the magic seven million subscriber by the middle of the year, some six months ahead of schedule. The operator added 244,000 subscribers in the quarter ending Dec. […]

What a difference a couple of months make. When Interspace spoke to New Skies Satellites CEO Dan Goldberg in November (Interspace, issue 757), the operator was confident that it would […]

Boeing has high hopes for its Connexion service, an airline in-flight broadband service aimed at providing passengers with better entertainment and Internet access via satellite. Recently, Boeing signed a deal […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Intelsat is set for a busy year. The satellite operator still hopes to have an initial public offering (IPO) this year. It also put in a bid to buy European […]

As predicted by Interspace, Modern Times Group (MTG), the Nordic pay-TV operator, has ditched Viaccess in favour of NDS for its conditional access (CA) system. MTG, through its broadcasting and […]

By Thomas Watts The satellite industry has been waiting for Intelsat’s initial public offering (IPO) for almost three years now, since the passage of the Open-Market Reorganisation for the Betterment […]

A = Analogue D = Digital 105.5 degreesE: Asiasat 3S D The Hindi-language channel Sahara TV has left 3660 MHz vertical but continues to be available via 4020 MHz vertical, […]

At the opening panel of PBI Media‘s SATELLITE 2003 conference being held in Washington, D.C., this week, PanAmSat [Nasdaq: SPOT] CEO Joe Wright questioned whether there is an open process […]

Consolidation was on everyone’s lips at the opening panel of SATELLITE 2003. New Skies Satellites [NYSE: NSK] CEO Dan Goldberg questioned whether industry consolidation is likely to happen, despite continuing […]

Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat is seeking permission from the European Commission to extend the June 30 deadline for the company to hold an initial public stock offering (IPO). Eutelsat CFO […]

Intelsat CFO Joe Corbett told attendees at SATELLITE 2003 Tuesday that he expected market conditions to improve sufficiently by June of next year to allow the global satellite operator to […]

During a Tuesday panel at SATELLITE 2003, the top financial officers of Eutelsat and New Skies Satellites [NYSE: NSK] projected that their companies’ revenues would grow by at least 6 […]

The CEOs of satellite radio firms Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI] and XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] said that their jointly funded efforts to develop interoperable receivers need “significant” additional work that […]

New Skies Satellites (NYSE: NSK) and Intelsat have signed a deal to use their existing orbital and satellite resources at a single orbital location to expand their respective commercial service […]

Merrill Lynch is boosting estimates for EchoStar Communications‘ [Nasdaq: DISH] fourth-quarter subscriber growth by 15,000 due to lower subscriber churn than anticipated. The change brings subscriber estimates for the direct […]