Author: Staff Writer

SpaceDev Inc. [SPDV] has filed a Form 10-SB registration statement with the SEC to become a fully reporting company taking a necessary step toward advancing from the OTC Bulletin Board...

Don’t be surprised to see transactions similar to the Hughes/Boeing merger occur in the coming year. With many satellite companies struggling to maintain the bottom line, they will need strategically...

Jefferson Hofgard has been named director of international policy for The Boeing Co. [BA] Space and Communications Group in Washington, D.C. He will be responsible for coordinating export policy and...

by Gerald E. Oberst Jr. The ITU has once again been asked to square the circle and plan orbital slots and frequencies for broadcasting satellite services (BSS). The rising acrimony...

By Theresa Foley The satellite business had a less than stellar year in 1999 raising money in the financial markets. It failed to break new records, as some experts had...

By Cynthia Boeke In a year of significant technical and business turmoil in some high-profile sectors of the satellite market, GE American Communications (GE Americom) represents, in many ways, the...

by Marc Crossman and Anh Steininger Will 2000 be the year mobile satellite services (MSS) come back into favor? The answer, of course, depends upon Globalstar. So far, Globalstar is...

Its History and Use in Science and Industry By Robert Nelson On September 23, 1999, the Mars Climate Orbiter was lost during an orbit injection maneuver when the spacecraft crashed...

by Jimmy Schaeffler Since the first quarter of 1994, when U.S. Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) companies began to provide services to the U.S. public, a monthly average of almost 175,000...

by Theresa Foley Investors looking for new satellite stock issues last year came up practically empty-handed as only one satellite IPO, from XM Radio, was issued, but the private equity...