Author: Staff Writer

by Peter J. Brown Rapid changes are transforming the broadcast world. Caching; pull or on-demand services; automation; new displays and graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are having an impact on every...

by the Phillips Satellite Group This year’s installment of the Phillips satellite conference series, Satellite 2000, was another record-breaking event, both in terms of attendees and in the news and...

By Theresa Foley The once elite club of satellite companies is attracting new members as Internet, media and telecom firms try to capture some of the huge growth in the...

By Theresa Foley Mass marketing of satellite-Internet access in Europe is under way, as two startups try to attract large numbers of subscribers who want high-speed Net access using satellite...

by Theresa Foley The higher-performance, more cost-effective expendable launch vehicles that satellite owners have desired for many years are joining the ranks of demonstrated flying machines as the new millennium...

It’s more green lights and blue skies for Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI], and the satellite radio business in general, said Sirius Chairman and CEO David Margolese. He envisions automobile and...

Trimble Navigation Ltd., [TRMB] the designer of a wide variety of civilian products enabled by Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, has introduced its newest generation receiver, the ACE III GPS...

General Dynamics [GD] selected Raytheon Co. [RTNA] to provide the total ground network infrastructure for the FAISAT global wireless data network being developed by proposed Little LEO operator Final Analysis....

American Mobile Satellite Corp. [SKYC] announced its program to help subscribers who are left without service in the wake of Iridium LLC’s [IRID] demise. The Reston, Va.-based company will offer...

Globalstar’s [GSTRF] quest for customers, at least in the United States, could become a more difficult task, due to a new dual-mode phone released by Motorola [MOT] and offered by...