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Hughes Space and Communications Co. [GMH] named three senior executives to new positions as The Boeing Co. [BA] completed the purchase of the satellite manufacturing operations for $3.75 billion in […]

By Theresa Foley The coming wave of new broadband satellites would be useless without comparable advances in user terminals, and earth station developers have a number of impressive advanced antenna […]

By Rob Fernandez Few would dispute that the Internet has swept up the satellite industry as it has everything else within its broad reach. While the nature of satellite technology […]

Telesat Canada is a company that was originally formed as a domestic satellite organization to provide basic services to all Canadians. In 1969, when the company was formed, the government […]

By Katie McConnell The Canadian satellite industry has changed a great deal over the years. Gone are the days of large prime contractors funded by government projects. Today, the Canadian […]

By David Hartshorn This time last year, they said it couldn’t be done. The idea seemed simple enough: Draw upon the combined resources of the Global VSAT Forum membership–nearly 100 […]

By Theresa Foley The satellite manufacturing segment of the commercial satellite business has always held a significant role in the industry’s identity. One of the first things people visualize when […]

By Gerry Oberst In August, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released on its Web site a thoughtful report on the ethics of space policy. The document […]

By Marc Crossman And Aileen Chen Even after reporting second quarter results that showed improvement from a disappointing first quarter, the stock of Loral Space and Communications still trades more […]

By Peter J. Brown The 1990s are finally over, and Asia is breathing a sigh of relief. The economic indicators are all pointing to a continuing rebound, although some concern […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] said that it has agreed to sell its Fairchild Defense electronics business, which supplies avionics for military aircraft, to a U.S. subsidiary of Smiths Industries plc, […]

StarBand Communications Inc., formerly Gilat-To-Home, which is building a DBS Internet service, will supply its users with e-mail and messaging through and agreement with Commtouch Software Ltd. [CTCH] of Mountain […]

InSight Telecommunications Corp. of Boston has agreed to sell, schedule and service the 24 Ku-band transponders on the GE 2 satellite that previously was used by Primestar. The agreement for […]

Industry leaders within the reusable launch vehicle (RLV) sector received a boost from the U.S. government Sept. 19 when the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released the final rules and regulations […]

Even though commercial satellite communications systems are projected to handle an increasing amount of the U.S. military bandwidth requirements in the coming decade, success for these systems will lie in […]

Project managers for Raytheon Systems Co. [RTNA] were all smiles recently when they completed successfully shore-based flight trials of a technology demonstrator designed for the shipboard version of the Joint […]

In addition to management reorganization efforts that are under way, future NASA space science projects simply will need more money if they are to avoid failures like the ones that […]

Some industry analysts concur that the next decade will yield minor growth for business ventures within the remote sensing industry. According to the Teal Group‘s study The Commercial Earth Imaging […]

Mission control specialists were all smiles as the Space Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis touched down at Cape Canaveral Air Station, Fla., Sept. 20 at 3:56 a.m. EDT bringing the STS- 106 […]

Societe Europeenne des Satellites (SES), the Luxembourg-based operator of the Astra satellite system, reported a profit of $97.8 million, or $2.63 per share, on total revenues of $347.4 million for […]

Eutelsat, the other pan-European satellite operator, has responded to the expansion of Societe Europeenne des Satellites (SES) into the South American market, by opening its first Latin American subsidiary, Eutelsat […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) successfully launched its newest polar-orbiting weather satellite Sept. 21 from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Titan 2 rocket. NOAA L is the […]

Arianespace racked up another dual-satellite launch Sept. 14 by an Ariane 5 vehicle. The rocket lifted off at 6:49 p.m. EDT carrying the Astra 2B and GE 7 satellites and […]

Orbcomm Files For Voluntary Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection In a move that should have come as no surprise to industry observers, Orbcomm Global L.P. [ORB] voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 […]

Lessons Learned from Iridium, ICO, and Globalstar – Part 3 The aerospace industry has been notorious for over-runs on government programs. However, the commercial space industry has been operated like […]

The Mobile Satellite Users Association is an industry organization representing the users of mobile satellite services. The group is hosting its first users conference in Crystal City, Va., just outside […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] has agreed to sell about one-third of its equity interest in Inmarsat Ventures Ltd. to Telenor, the largest Norwegian carrier, for more than $100 million. Lockheed […]

Gilat-To-Home Inc. has a new name, StarBand Communications, but its plan to become America’s first consumer, two-way, high-speed satellite Internet service remains the same. The McLean, Va.-based company said the […]

Hughes Space and Communications Co. [GMH] will build at least three additional satellites for New ICO, the reorganized and refinanced company that has emerged from the bankrupt ICO Global Communications. […]

The calling capacity of the Asia Cellular Satellite’s Garuda 1 mobile services satellite “is likely to be limited by an antenna-related anomaly discovered…during testing by its manufacturer, Lockheed Martin Corp.” […]