Author: Jeffrey Hill

[Satellite News 07-21-08] Louis Brothers, founder and president of Valley Forge Composite Technologies (VFCT), is so confident that his company’s new small satellite platform will be a revolution for the...

[Satellite News 07-17-08]  A lack of diverse content, desire for a commercial-driven direct-to-home (DTH) market and an ingrained political fear of change will result in slow growth and underperforming Chinese...

[Satellite News – 07-15-08] John Higginbotham has been involved in the space industry for decades as an investor and now returns to the field with plans to serve as a...

[Satellite News – 07-15-08] After battling government red tape, hostile Congressmen and lobbying groups for more than a year, Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio seem on the cusp...

[Satellite News 07-11-08] In the early 1980s, Fred Sampliner, president of his family-owned and operated collection agency, Sampliner Worldwide Collections, saw the satellite industry as a wide-open market.     “It...

[Satellite News – 07-09-08] Panasonic has licensed iDirect’s satellite IP router hardware and spread spectrum mobile waveform for a system that will provide broadband access to aircraft.     The iDirect...

[Satellite News – 07-08-08] Inmarsat has held preliminary discussions with U.S. investment company Harbinger Capital Partners, Inmarsat’s largest shareholder, which could lead to Harbinger taking over the satellite operator.    ...

[Satellite News 07-04-08] Television viewing and video consumption is about to enter a paradigm shift, one that could put satellite at a disadvantage to new providers such as Internet Protocol...