Author: Staff Writer

Comsat Corp. [CQ] has won a three-year, $9 million contract to provide Internet access at 90 megabits per second – the equivalent of about 500 pages of text per second...

GlobeCast, the worldwide broadcasting arm of France Telecom [FTE], plans to launch a broadband service providing Internet access to the Indian subcontinent from the Europe*Star 1 satellite later this year....

EMS Technologies Inc. [ELMG] which recently won a contract for more than 15,000 broadband, Ka-band, two-way VSAT terminals for service with SES/Astra’s 1H satellite, has subcontracted with Norsat International Inc....

Leo Mondale, 41, has been named president of Arianespace Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of the European launch company, and hopes his hard-learned lessons at Iridium LLC will help him in...

Motient Corp. [MTNT], formerly American Mobile Satellite Corp., has formed a new subsidiary, Motient Satellite Ventures LLC, and announced a $50 million investment from an investment group consisting of Columbia...

While the insiders of the satellite industry talk the talk about the power of broadband services via satellite, equipment manufactures remain in a holding pattern. “The satellite broadband end user...

Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] can’t seem to catch a break. For years, the company struggled to solve a variety of accounting issues. Now, with those issues in the past, problems...

It was a good week for the two competing digial audio radio service (DARS) providers. Sirius Satellite Radio’s [SIRI] first satellite launch was successful and XM Satellite Radio Inc. [XMSR]...

Both ICO-Teledesic Global Ltd. and Globalstar L.P [GSTRF] both picked up $250 million of much needed funding. But the amount of money is about the only similarities between how the...

Daniel Marcus, formerly the vice president for corporate communications at PanAmSat Corp. [SPOT], has established his own marketing and communications firm, Marcus Associates LLC, in Westport, Conn. He said the...