The Asia-Pacific satellite-communications market remained bruisingly competitive in 2004. With as many as 10 satellite operators fighting for each new contract, prices remain under heavy pressure, Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Ltd. (AsiaSat) said.
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The French and Russian space agencies have signed a five-year cooperation agreement on future-launcher technologies, including flight demonstrators, in which France will invest 200 million euros ($266 million).
Canadian Legislators, Industry Promote X-Band Radar Site
Raytheon and a group of Canadian politicians are lobbying the Canadian government for the installation of a missile defense X-band radar on the country’s east coast, despite a decision by Prime Minister Paul Martin not to support the Pentagon’s missile defense program.
EMS Closer To Shedding Commercial Space Operations
EMS Technologies Inc. returned to profitability in 2004 after taking huge losses in 2003, but just barely, as two Montreal-based commercial space units — both divestiture candidates — continue to drag down overall performance.
EchoStar Rekindles Its Interest in Broadband
EchoStar Communications Corp., owner of the Dish direct-to-home satellite television service, has more satellites on order than it knows what to do with, but the two-way broadband services scheduled to be offered to U.S. consumers starting late this year is one of the targeted markets, said EchoStar Chairman Charlie Ergen.
With End of Soyuz Deal Near, NASA Explores Limited Options
Time is running out on a U.S.-Russian agreement that until now has guaranteed American astronauts a seat aboard the Soyuz spacecraft that ferry crews to and from the international space station twice a year and guarantee their safe return in an emergency.
Pieces Coming Together for Shuttle’s Return to Flight
The pieces are coming together for NASA’s first space shuttle launch in more than two years as engineers prepare to roll the Discovery spacecraft out of its protective Orbiter Processing Facility.
Profile: Gene Jilg, CTO, Inmarsat Ltd.
For observers of today’s commercial satellite market, Gene Jilg might be seen as a canary in a coal mine. If critics of satellite operator ownership by private-equity companies are right, it’s people like Jilg who could be among the first to go as part of a broad cost-cutting program.
Examiner’s Report Challenges Valuation of Loral
In a development that could delay Loral’s exit from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection — and create serious cash flow problems for the company’s satellite manufacturing unit — a court-appointed examiner’s report has concluded that Loral managers substantially understated the value of their business.