Tag: Satellite

Intelsat was the highest bidder in an auction for Loral's North American telecommunications satellites. The winning bid was $1.1 billion. ...

DIRECTV announced a series of promotions to stimulate the growth of Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) and high-definition (HD) television receivers ...

Cablevision's Rainbow DBS division launched its "VOOM" service featuring extensive HDTV programming to customers throughout the continental United States. During ...

Telkom SA, the incumbent fixed-line operator in South Africa, began offering satellite-based broadband VSAT service based on Gilat's Skystar 360E ...

PanAmSat and Japan's JSAT Corporation's jointly owned Galaxy XIII/Horizons-1 satellite was successfully launched into orbit by Sea Launch. The spacecraft, ...

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) received orders to proceed with the design and construction of two satellites: DIRECTV 8 and DIRECTV 9S. ...

Rainbow DBS, the satellite service division of Cablevision Systems, is getting ready to launch an array of high-definition television (HDTV) ...

CapRock Communications, a satellite communications provider for the drilling industry, will gain access to Eutelsat's SESAT satellite. Positioned at 36 ...

DirecTV increased its full-year guidance to one million net subscriber additions in 2003, up from the prior guidance of approximately ...

Arianespace successfully orbited two geostationary communications satellites: INSAT-3E for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), and e-BIRD for Eutelsat. The ...

The DISH Network has sold its 1 millionth digital video recorder (DVR). The DISH Player's DISH Video-On-Demand DVR service allows ...

Loral Skynet has been unable to re-establish contact with its Telstar 4 satellite, which experienced a short circuit of its ...

Hughes Network Systems (HNS) will provide its DIRECWAY broadband satellite technology to ChinaCast, one of the leading satellite service operators ...