MUMBAI: Intelsat today announced that BT’s new satellite broadband service will be supported by the Intelsat system. An integral part of BT’s overall broadband strategy, the...
MUMBAI: The BMW WilliamsF1Team has chosen the US based satellite communications company, Intelsat system, to transmit mission-critical information during all European Grand Prix races and testing...
MUMBAI: Asianet will air Dilmunile Sandhyakai, the first Malayalam TV serial exclusively shot in Bahrain, from the third week of June. The story revolves around the...
MUMBAI: Intelsat has announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire the assets of end-to-end communications services integrator Comsat General Corporation and certain of its...
MUMBAI: Malaysia’s satellite television operator Astro is planning to offer more than 100 new channels by next year.This will add to the already existing six free...
MUMBAI: Satellite operator Panamsat has reported financial results for the first quarter ended 31 March 2004. Total revenues increased to $205.4 million compared to $199.8 million...
MUMBAI: Satellite services provider Panamsat and DirecTV, which is the major stakeholder in the company, have announced that they have signed a definitive transaction agreement with...
MUMBAI: Intelsat on Monday commercially launched its North American video fibre network , which claims to present broadcasters worldwide with an enhanced opportunity to reliably transmit...
PanAmSat has announced a 15-year, transponder lease agreement with the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) which claims to be the world’s largest religious media network. The...
MUMBAI: A few days ago The Space Foundation presented its 2004 apace achievement award to Arianespace, the CNES French national space agency and the European Space...
MUMBAI: Integral Systems, Inc has announced a contract for PanAmSat Corporation, to migrate their three Boeing Satellite System 702 spacecraft from their current ground control software...
NEW DELHI: “The growth in the broadcasting sector, liberalisation in policies, exportation of content and IP/MPEG4 are driving ROI (return on investment) via satellite into India...
MUMBAI: Worldspace Corporation which delivers satellite radio has announced the first multinational satellite radio subscription plan available across its global footprint. This covers Europe, Asia, the...
MUMBAI: Satellite ground systems provider Integral Systems and Asiasat have signed a contract. As per this Integral will provide a single, consolidated primary satellite control system...
MUMBAI: The AMC-10 telecommunications satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin for Ses Americom was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral aboard a Lockheed Martin-built Atlas IIAS...
MUMBAI: Intelsat has plans to conduct an Initial Public Offering (IPO) of its ordinary shares worth about $ 500 million. The company, which offers telephony, corporate...
MUMBAI: New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV) today announced the launch of the world’s first digital satellite news gathering network based entirely on MPEG-4 encoding. Done using...
MUMBAI: Asian satellite commnuications service provider Asisat CEO Peter Jackson was voted the ‘Satellite Executive of the Year in Asia Pacific’, by the Asia-Pacific Satellite Communications...
ATLANTA: Scientific-Atlanta (SA) has appointed George Stromeyer as its new vice president and managing director for the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. The company supplies...
MUMBAI: The much delayed launch of India’s next generation communication satellite Insat 3E will finally see the light of day on 27 September. Arianespace, the launch...
MUMBAI: Malaysia’s Binariang Satellite Systems has announced it will be using the Proton Breeze M launcher from International Launch Services (ILS) for the launch of the...
PARIS: The seventh annual World Summit for Satellite Financing in Paris which got off to a promising start recently, will conclude on 12 September. The event...
VIRGINIA: International Launch Services (ILS) has announced a contract with Binariang Satellite Systems to launch the Measat-3 satellite in 2005. The mission will use the Russian-built...
MUMBAI: Post Dr K Kasturirangan’s nomination to the Rajya Sabha, Indian space agency ISRO has decided to bring in G Madhavan Nair as Secretary, Department of...
PARIS: The winners of the winners of the sixth Hot bird TV awards were announced at a ceremony in Venice, last week. An annual event to...
BERMUDA: Intelsat, the global satellite communications leader, has announced that it has signed a $ one billion definitive asset purchase agreement with Loral Space & Communications...
MUMBAI: While in India there may be much uncertainty around how conditional access will affect business, for cable ops, satellite platform operators, equipment suppliers and content...
MUMBAI: Fashion TV India has moved from Panamsat 10 to Asiasat 2 and is now available free to air, according to its new ad sales and...
CALIFORNIA: Satellite TV service providers in the US are gearing up to expand their customer base by aggressively tapping new geographic locations and becoming more customer-friendly....
NEW YORK: News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch has been quoted as saying that the technology is not far away from allowing satellite carriers to retransmit local...
MUMBAI: The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) Insat-3A satellite’s solar array and the two Antennas have been deployed. This follows the succesful placement of the next...
MUMBAI: The Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) next generation multi-purpose Insat-3A satellite is now in its geostationary orbit. In the third and final stage...
MUMBAI: All systems go on the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (Isro) next generation multi-purpose Insat-3A satellite. The satellite’s perigee (closest point to the earth) was raised...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida: Atlas 3B(AC -204), the two-stage rocket capable of lifting payloads of upto 4500 kgs carried an Asian communication satellite, Asiasat 4, in space...
MUMBAI: Insat-3A, which was launched by Ariane-5 of Arianespace yesterday from Kourou, French Guiana is now orbiting at 11,500 km above the earth’s surface. ...
COLORADO US: Level 3 Communications, an international communications and information services company and Panamsat have announced an agreement that will enable the latter to optimise the...
MUMBAI: The timing was certainly apt. As American-led forces marched into Baghdad, Rupert Murdoch’s media empire News Corp, which has made no bones about it’s unambiguous...
MUMBAI: Indian space agency ISRO has chosen Arianespace again to launch its INSAT 4A and INSAT 4B communications satellites. After today’s successful Ariane 5 mission that...
MUMBAI: A major milestone was crossed in India’s space programme today with the succesful launch of the multi-purpose Insat-3A satellite aboard the Arianespace’s Flight 160 rocket...
MUMBAI: The launch of India’s next generation multipurpose Insat 3A satellite aboard Arianespace’s Flight 160 has been delayed. According to Arianespace, the delay is a fallout...
MUMBAI: Intelsat has announced that it is working with SmartJog, a global content distribution service provider, to provide digital store-and-forward delivery of video content over satellite...
MUMBAI: The countdown is on for the launch of India’s next generation multipurpose Insat 3A satellite. Early Wednesday Insat 3A will take off on board the...
MUMBAI: India’s latest satellite INSAT-3A, will be launched by the Ariane-5 vehicle of European Space Consortium Arianespace in the early hours of 9 April from Kourou...
PARIS: Orbital Recovery Corporation has selected Ariane as the primary launch vehicle for its Geosynchronous Spacecraft Life Extension System (SLES). It has signed an agreement with...
CONNECTICUT: Panamsat and JSat have announced the formation of a strategic alliance for the distribution of digital video, data and Internet services across the Asia Pacific...
PARIS: Reuters, the global information, news and technology group, has signed an agreement with Eutelsat, the worlds fourth largest satellite operator, for distribution of Reuters Video...
PARIS: Eutelsat has announced that the latest addition to its fleet of broadcasting satellites Hot Bird 6 has entered into commercial service and is now beaming...
LONDON: BT Broadcast Services (BT) has announced the signing of a new occasional-use agreement with PanAmSat, enabling its customers to use PanAmSats global fleet as a...
WASHINGTON: Intelsat has acquired the PacAmTel teleport, located outside Los Angeles, California, in a bid to assemble a worldwide terrestrial infrastructure and strengthen its global satellite...
MUMBAI : The KEO satellite scheduled to orbit around 1800 kilometers above earth for 50,000 years will be launched at the end of next year. The...