[Satellite News 07-24-09] France is one of Europe’s major powers in space, with a rich and deep heritage in this area. In an interview with Satellite News, Lt. Gen. Gilles Desclaux,...

The government often is both the largest employer and consumer of goods and services in a country, and in many countries a better description for the government would be a...

With the Beijing Olympics serving as a landmark event for China and the global broadcasting industry, many hoped the event would be the catalyst for greater things in terms of...

Although worries persist about a potential market downturn in the satellite industry, a panel of executives at SATELLITE 2009 see a handful of opportunities — digital media and IPTV, mobility,...

Whether it is a natural disaster, such as a hurricane, earthquake or tsunami, or man-made conflicts, in the blink of an eye, an infrastructure that took years to build can...

Missile defense systems can be useful in deterring aggression against the United States, especially aggression involving nuclear-tipped missiles, and thus should occupy a key position in the U.S. strategic posture,...

Khaled Derbas Managing Director, SmartSat The Middle East is a market in desperate need of more satellite capacity. It seems as fast as the satellites are going up, the capacity is being snapped up by

DirecTV already has seen better than expected take-up of its video-on-demand (VOD) services launched in spring 2008, DirecTV CTO Rômulo Pontual told Via Satellite.      The U.S. satellite pay-TV operator,...

After a multi-year fight to retain untarnished use of C-band, the satellite industry continues to face challenges on that front as well as other spectrum bands. Why are other communications...

With a backdrop of a new U.S. presidential administration, the beginning of a shift in troop strength from Iraq to Afghanistan and a global economic recession, 2009 likely will be...