Author: JJ McCoy

Globecomm Systems Inc., a global provider of end-to-end, value-added, satellite-based communications systems, has received a $9.7 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract from a U.S. government customer, the company announced March...

Major League Baseball and satellite provider DirecTV announced a seven-year agreement to continue carriage rights to the MLB Extra Innings subscription package of out-of-market games, and include the launch of...

A July contract award for the Federal Aeronautic Administration (FAA)’s Next-Generation Air Transportation System (NGATS) will be decided from among three players – ITT, Lockheed Martin or Raytheon – vying...

The U. S. Geological Survey (USGS), in collaboration with NASA and the British Antarctic Survey, is developing the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica, a map of Antarctica using satellite imagery....

Representatives of Telenor Satellite Services and Inmarsat are in Hanoi to give a March 9 demonstration of how businesses and government can use satellite communications. Executives from both companies will...

Arianespace is set for a March 10 mission to place the India’s Insat-4B TV/telecommunications satellite and the U.K.’s Skynet-5A communications spacecraft into orbit, Arianespace announced. Insat-4B will carry 12 Ku-band...

[3/9/07] Telesat Canada reported revenues of 479 million Canadian dollars ($407.1 million) in 2006, up slightly from revenues of 474.7 million Canadian dollars ($403.4 million) in 2005, the company announced...

Spacenet Inc. announced that Alan Kittson has joined the company as its vice president of government services sales. Kittson will oversee the direction and sales efforts of Spacenet’s expanded government...

DirecTV has promoted Derek Chang to executive vice president of content strategy and development; Dan Hartman to senior vice president of programming acquisition; and Eric Shanks to executive vice president...

[3/8/07] Tandberg TV’s board has extended a unanimous recommendation to shareholders that they accept Ericsson’s buyout offer, Tandberg announced March 7.   Ericsson made an unsolicited offer Feb. 26 to...