Staff Writer

Theresa Foley The dust has cleared from the mobile satellite services (MSS) bankruptcies of the last few years, leaving a three-way contest among steady-sailing Inmarsat and its two restructured post-bankruptcy […]

By Peter J. Brown When it comes to delivering Internet-based content and providing high-speed IP data services over satellite, the satellite industry’s radars are sweeping the sky, searching for the […]

by Gerry Oberst The Financial Times calls it “a white elephant preparing for take-off.” The Wall Street Journal calls it a “duplicative system that replaces one that already exists and […]

by Richard DalBello The answer may be 36,021 km + (1000 * CR * A/m). As to the question, well, we have to go back a couple of decades to […]

By Nick Mitsis The landscape of competition and regional satellite services growth within Latin America continues to change. Alongside the growing capacity rate, more satellite companies are increasing their business […]

by Armand Musey Last month, we wrote how satellite television services are becoming the principal economic driver of the global satellite industry and what a merger of Echostar and Hughes […]

Last week saw the launch of the latest Star Wars film, “Attack of the Clones.” Appropriately, the film was “beamed” from space to the Ritzy Theatre in London’s Leicester Square, […]

Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 83 degreesE: Insat 2E & 3B D – The Hindi language channel Asianet is present on 3694 MHz vertical, SR 4340, FEC 3/4, […]

Static2358 hopes to make inroads into the lucrative U.S. market this year. Static, which operates the highly successful PlayJam channel on BSkyB, wants to bring the concept of multiplayer gaming […]

Swiss public broadcaster SRG SSR idée suisse has decided to cease its usage of the Astra Digital Radio (ADR) system in favour of the MPEG-2/DVB standard. The ADR transmissions “will […]

BSkyB is on a roll at the moment. The demise of ITV Digital can only be good news for the satellite operator as it continues to cement its position as […]

In a move that comes as no surprise, troubled German media company Kirch Group has placed its Kirch Pay-TV unit into insolvency. Premiere, Kirch Group’s ill-fated pay-TV broadcaster whose heavy […]

AsiaSat has postponed the launch of its AsiaSat 4 satellite, scheduled for this month, until next year. The Asian satellite company hopes to announce a new date in the next […]

New Skies gained revenues of $51.8 million in the first quarter of 2002. This was an increase of $600,000 over the same quarter last year. The Dutch satellite operator also […]

Arianespace has been boosted by the announcement of three new contract awards for the DirecTV-7s, iPSTAR-1 and Star One C1 satellites. “We are pleased that despite the market downturn, we […]

German commercial TV channel RTL II intends to launch a sister service in 2004 that shows Japanese cartoons 24 hours a day. According to RTL II’s managing director Josef Andorfer, […]

XM Satellite Radio increased its subscriber base in the first quarter of 2002 by 175 percent. It announced April 23 that it had added almost 50,000 new subscribers in the […]

Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2&3 D – It appears the Thailand’s Travel TV has left 3572 MHz horizontal, SR 6310, FEC 1/2 where it […]

Last week, PanAmSat signed a deal to lease one of its satellites to Middle Eastern satellite provider ArabSat. The PAS-5 satellite is a Boeing 601 HP model with 24 Ku-band […]

Hughes Networks Systems (HNS) has launched its DirecWay two-way satellite broadband service in Europe. At the same time, HNS announced that the opening of its new European operations centre in […]

In a development that further increases the already large number of free-to-air TV channels targeting German viewers, several new TV stations have launched or are about to launch in Europe’s […]

The launch of DirecTV’s DirecTV 5 satellite failed to take place as scheduled on May 6 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. It was scheduled to blast off on May […]

Hispasat has gained permission from the regulatory authorities to offer commercial satellite services in Paraguay. The authorization was obtained from the National Commission of Telecommunications (CONATEL). The deal was signed […]

The enormous radome at Andover, ME, is gone. It was erected and operated by Bell Labs and AT&T Long Lines in the early 1960s as part of the Telstar project. […]

by Armand Musey The growth of satellite industry is being increasingly driven by the proliferation of direct-to-home (DTH) satellite services. Currently millions of people watch some form of DTH service […]

To hell and back: when it comes to satellite news gathering (SNG) in Afghanistan, that phrase is an understatement. Yet the life-and-death risks run by SNG crews rarely make the […]

Or, Is That What That Dish-Shaped Thing Actually Does? By James Careless Admit it: most people can’t explain how a satellite earth station works in plain English, including many technicians […]

by Gerry Oberst Earlier this year, the major satellite companies in Europe issued a position paper on regulatory issues facing the industry. This “satellite principles 2002” was an outgrowth of […]

by David Hartshorn There are a lot of resumés in the mail these days. They appear cheek-to-jowl in mail slots among press releases that are littered with euphemisms like “rationalizing […]

Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2&3 D – A new-to-satellite channel, Travel Thailand TV, has launched on 3574 MHz, SR 6310, FEC 1/2, VPID 512, […]