Satellite News

CapRock Communications will provide VSAT services to the Otto Candies fleet…

Adventech Satellite Networks Inc. has sold a digital video broadcast-return channel satellite system…

NDS will supply conditional access services to Gateway Communications for a new…

Shin Satellite will launch a video-on-demand service in Australia, the company announced. The operator is teaming up with ReelTime Media, an Australian broadband TV…

EchoStar Satellite LLC and DirecTV have settled pending litigation regarding the use of trademarks as keywords to trigger sponsored links on Internet searches such as Google Adwords and similar search…

Inmarsat posted a 2006 profit of $127.7 million, up 98 percent over 2005, the company announced Feb. 27. Revenues were $500.1 million in 2006, compared to revenues of $491.1 million in 2005. Revenues from mobile satellite communication services were $491.8 million in 2006, up 4 percent from 2005. The gains…

Sirius Satellite Radio reported record revenue of $637.2 million in 2006, up from revenue of $242.2 million in 2005, the company announced Feb. 27. For the first time, in the 2006 fourth quarter the satellite operator achieved positive…

News agencies were fast over the weekend to report claims by Iranian state TV that the country had launched a satellite aboard an indigenous rocket. Not much later, Iranian officials said it was just a suborbital launch of a sounding rocket. But now it looks as though there has been no launch at all.