Author: Staff Writer

A Polish court has found that public broadcaster TVP cannot after all take a stake in the Cyfra+ digital satellite platform. The court was ruling on a complaint from TVP...

EUTELSAT is in a quandary. Still smarting by the ‘loss’ of six crucial transponders to SES from its EuroBird slot, destined to be co-located at 28.2-29 degrees East alongside SES’s...

Disney Channel UK has confirmed it will launch ‘Toon Disney’, already a popular channel in the United States, this autumn on SkyDigital and digital cable. It will form part of...

EMS Technologies Inc has completed live, closed-loop, broadband satellite access tests as part of an SES/Astra Broadband Interactive project. The tests used the Digital Video Broadcast – Return Channel via...

The European Commission (EC) has started proceedings against Telefonica, the principal shareholder in DTH digital platform Via Digital, and Sogecable, owner of rival digital DTH operator Canal Satelite Digital, alleging...

SkyDigital has started targeting subscribers to its cheapest pay-TV package – the big basic Family Package, which costs pounds13 and does not offer access to premium channels – with a...

Alcatel Space announced that it has completed and delivered to Hughes Space and Communications the first of two communications payloads for the two XM Satellite Radio spacecraft. The second payload...

Cosmonauts Sergei Zaletin and Alexander Kalery have found at least one air leak in the Mir Space Station after two weeks of tests on board the Russian laboratory. Although ground...

Energy Conversion Devices Inc. [ENER] announced that it has been awarded a $750,000, two-year, cost-sharing contract by the U.S. Air Force to further advance its proprietary photovoltaic (PV) space technology....

Members of the Sea Launch Failure Review Oversight Board met the week of April 16 to hear briefings from the independent teams that are investigating the March 12 launch failure....