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The satellite manufacturing marketplace is seeing a number of players compete for a dwindling number of commercial orders. Talk of consolidation is rife, whether it is Lockheed Martin and Loral […]

Fox Kids Europe (FKE) has been boosted by a recent five-year deal that sees the launch of the Fox Kids Channel on the Polsat Cyfrowy DTH platform. It will become […]

Intelsat has acquired a PacAmTel teleport just outside Los Angeles. The new teleport will be known as the Riverside Teleport and has terrestrial links to one of the US West […]

European Commission president Romano Prodi has urged the political leaders of Italy and Germany not to hinder the development of the Galileo satellite navigation project. Both Germany and Italy want […]

By James Careless Data broadcasting via satellite: whether one-way or two-way, this application continues to push back the boundaries. That is because, in today’s digital world, everything is data: whether […]

People BOEING: Promotes Regional Vice President The Boeing Co. named Paul Walters regional vice president, Southeast Asia. He will be responsible for coordinating all company business activities in a number […]

by Theresa Foley The two entrepreneurial ventures aimed at bringing Internet services to aircraft are making headway, despite the decline in the airline industry following the events of September 11, […]

Peter J. Brown Throughout the next 18 months, the North American skyscape will undergo a significant transformation as a long-awaited sequence of commercial Ka-band satellite launches get underway. It starts […]

by Gerry Oberst Recently, the European Union published the new data protection directive for electronic communications services. This document applies to satellite operators just as much as it does to […]

By Peter J. Brown In, “Ghostbusters” it is a matter of whom you are going to call. In the emerging realm of two-way broadband multimedia via Ka-band satellite, it is […]

By Nick Mitsis From broadband applications to straight telecommunications, Africa continues to grow as a major area of commercial satellite activity. Industry companies are digging deeper into this continent, further […]

by Armand Musey Recently, there has been a great deal of concern about the financial viability of the two satellite radio companies, Sirius and XM Radio. We maintain our long-term […]

by Richard DalBello For those of you who may have slept through the entire summer, the FCC put out a Public Notice and set up a special spectrum policy task […]

The International Telecommunication Union’s process for reviewing applications for satellite systems is renowned for its bureaucracy, inefficiency, and glacial pace. To be fair, the organization has been working to reform […]

90 degreesE: Yamal 102 D The Russian channel GTRK Dalnevostochnaya from the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk has launched on 3725 MHz LHCP, SR 3200, FEC 3/4, VPID 4194, APID […]

By Christopher Baugh Make no mistake: Western Europe remains a top prospect for satellite delivery of telecommunications services. From international voice traffic decades ago to Internet platforms today, satellites are […]

Gilat Satellite Networks reported second quarter revenues of $51.6 million, an almost 30 percent fall from the previous quarter. The results were dramatically below analysts’ expectations. Armand Musey, a satellite […]

BT Broadcast Services is extending its collaboration with PanAmSat only weeks after the two parties announced a strategic alliance for the distribution of digital video services in Europe, the United […]

European cultural channel ARTE is set to transfer to its analogue transponder on Astra (19.2 degrees East) on Oct. 1. According to the Strasbourg-based channel, the move will enable around […]

Canal Satellite has concluded long-term contracts with SES Astra for two additional transponders at 19.2 degrees E. Canal Satellite has almost two million subscribers receiving up to 230 TV and […]

Canal+ Technologies, which is being bought by Thomson Multimedia, has launched an advanced version of its MediaHighway middleware. Canal+ said the new MediaHighway Advanced is first-to-market end-to-end MHP middleware for […]

BSkyB has inked a four-year deal with Telewest under which three of BSkyB’s channels – Sky One, Sky Sports News and Sky News – will be carried on Telewest. All […]

Spanish military operator Hisdesat has inked a deal with Arianespace to launch Spain’s first military satellite, SPAINSAT. The deal serves to emphasise the growing importance of military satellite communications to […]

D = Digital A = Analog 80 degreesE: Express 6A D Kultura Telekanal and Muz TV have launched a stream share on 11540 MHz vertical, SR 5062, FEC 3/4, VPID […]

By Stephen A. Blum The most complex satellite broadcasting system ever proposed is under development in a nondescript office building near Luxembourg’s airport. Global Radio intends to provide subscription radio […]

Intelsat is planning to set up a video services unit in the next month as it plans to tap into that growing market. The satellite operator is increasingly looking to […]

New Skies Satellites N.V. [NSK], the global satellite communications company based in The Hague, The Netherlands, named Scott Sprague as its new senior vice president of global sales. Sprague is […]

In its recently released study of the commercial satellite launch market for 2000-2003, Teal Group forecasts that 33 commercial satellites will be launched to Earth orbit in 2002 and 31 […]

Israel-based Gilat Satellite Networks [GILTF] is installing a hub and two-way satellite communications network for JSAT, Japan’s largest satellite operator and the largest satellite operator in Asia. JSAT intends to […]

People COMMUNICATIONS CENTER Founder Passes Away Walter Morgan, a well-known international consultant specializing in satellite communications, died on June 19, 2002, from pancreatic cancer in Clarksburg, MD. Morgan, 71, was […]