Author: JJ McCoy

ProtoStar, a Bermuda corporation with principal U.S. operations in San Francisco, announced on June 18 its opening of a Singapore office. The company also named Eui Koh, former president of...

iDirect Technologies (iDirect), a global provider of satellite-based broadband communications solutions and the U.S. satellite communications arm of Singapore Technologies Electronics Ltd., has expanded its presence in the Asia Pacific...

The China National Space Administration is planning a September launch of a third Earth resources satellite jointly developed by China and Brazil, Xinhua has reported. The state-run newspaper quoted the...

XM Satellite Radio is offering two new radio devices to its listeners, the company announced June 18. The XpressR offers a split-screen display of up to six channels with features...

Rockwell Collins International has chosen EMS SATCOM, a division of EMS Technologies Inc., to develop a satcom system for the Boeing 747-8, EMS Technologies announced June 18. Based on orders...

Lockheed Martin has integrated the spacecraft propulsion core structure and the payload module for the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite, the company announced June 18. The Advanced EHF...

Arabsat has signed a contract with a consortium of European companies, Astrium and Thales Alenia Space, to build its fifth-generation satellites, with Arianespace and ILS each agreed to launch one...

International Launch Services (ILS) and SES Satellite Leasing announced a contract for five SES satellites to be launched on Proton Breeze M vehicles through 2013, ILS announced June 18. Financial...

Thales Alenia Space has won a European Space Agency (ESA) contract worth 229 million euros ($306.7 million) for the first of five Earth observation satellite satellites for the Global Monitoring...

A majority stake in Intelsat Ltd., the leading global provider of fixed satellite services, will be purchased from its parent company, Intelsat Holdings Ltd., by a group led by BC...