Focus: Telecom

iDirect Inc. and DTech Labs Inc. have integrated a Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) system over iDirect’s iNfiniti VSAT broadband platform, the companies announced Aug. 13. DTech’s Whisper VoIP system provide users of iDirect satellite hubs and remotes with up to a 600 percent increase in VoIP call capacity over a single remote satellite link,...

The global communications satellite market is expected to generate deliveries of nearly 300 satellites in the next 10 years, but the U.S. share of those orders could fall, Forecast International said in a study released Aug. 13. While demand for satellite services in growing, an increase in satellite size, power and service life actually has...

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has been awarded a study contract for a joint lunar orbiter mission that may be conducted by the United States and the United Kingdom, SSTL announced Aug. 13. The contract between SSTL and Mississippi State University follows the signing of a joint statement of intent between NASA and the British...

DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-1 satellite has been delivered to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., in advance of its scheduled launch Sept. 18, DigitalGlobe announced. The imagery satellite, built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., was developed under the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s NextView program. WorldView-1 will have an average revisit time of 1.7 days and be capable...

Shin Satellite PCL posted a loss of 83 million Thai bhat ($2.7 million) in the 2007 second quarter despite a 16 percent revenue gain to 2 billion bhat ($65 million) the company said in an Aug. 10 filing with the Stock Exchange of Thailand. In the 2006 second quarter, the company lost 34 million bhat...

Norsat International has had its third straight quarter of profit and also reached the milestone of being debt free for the first time in almost 25 years, after eliminating short-term debt. These were two of the highlights of its latest results announced August 14. The company, a provider of intelligent satellite solutions, also saw a...

Intelsat Reports Quarterly Revenues of $543 Million In a second-quarter 2007 earnings report, fixed satellite services provider Intelsat Ltd. claimed revenue of $543.2 million and a net loss of $31.7 million for the three months ended June 30, 2007. The company’s results for the three- and six-month periods were announced on Aug. 9. Those results...

Loral Space & Communications saw revenues increase by 17 percent in the second quarter, and 22 percent for the first half of the year, the company announced Aug. 8. For the three- and six-month periods ended June 30, 2007, total consolidated revenue for the second quarter reached $226 million, up from $193 million for the...

When SES Global this week announced its half-year results to the end of June, the company’s status was greeted positively by analysts who believe that the stock represents an attractive pick in the satellite sector. On Aug. 6, SES reported overall revenues of 789.1 million euros ($1.09 billion), an increase of 11 percent compared to...

In a case stemming from more than a dozen years ago, Semtek International Inc. is proceeding against various Russian entities to collect a $381 million civil judgment awarded by a U.S. federal court. Unfortunately, however, the plaintiff estimates less than a one-in-five chance of ever seeing a ruble of it. “Trying to go to Russia...