Charlie Ergen, founder and chairman of the EchoStar/DISH combination, is reported to be negotiating with some of the company’s bond and debt-holders for extensions to its debt payment obligations. However, […]
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Rocket Lab’s Electron to launch Symphony In The Stars on Tuesday
‘Symphony In The Stars’ is the first of two dedicated missions on Electron to deploy a single spacecraft to a 650km circular Earth orbit for a confidential commercial customer. The […]
Maxar Space Systems selected to build high-power EchoStar XXVI satellite
Maxar Space Systems, provider of satellite design and manufacturing has been awarded a contract by EchoStar Corporation (Nasdaq: SATS) to manufacture EchoStar XXVI, a high-power geostationary communications satellite based on […]
EchoStar in trouble with FCC
Reports from the US say that Charlie Ergen-backed EchoStar is being investigated by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over alleged compliance issues over federal requirements linked to EchoStar’s building of […]
Forrester’s Digest: EchoStar lying in wait
EchoStar-owned Hughes Network Systems has reported a 3 percent fall in revenue and a loss of 30,000 broadband subscribers during the first quarter. The company now has 853,000 subscribers. However, […]
Hughes launches innovative + compact ESA
Hughes Network Systems, LLC, an EchoStar company (Nasdaq: SATS), earlier this month informed the industry of the commercial availability of the firm’s HL1100W single panel electronically steerable antenna (ESA), a […]
Forrester’s Digest: Intelsat suffers falling revenues
Satellite giant Intelsat, in the process of being bought by SES, has reported declining revenues across many of its key divisions. Its ‘Transponder Revenues’ vertical, which accounts for video services […]
Eutelsat America Corp. + OneWeb Technologies partner with Hughes to deliver LEO capability to the L3Harris multi-mission RASOR ecosystem
Eutelsat America Corp. and OneWeb Technologies Inc (EACOWT), operating in combination as a wholly owned independent U.S. proxy company and subsidiary of Eutelsat Group, have announced a contract with Hughes Network […]
EchoStar Mobile expanding services by adding LoRaWAN satellite relay + associated capabilities
EchoStar Mobile, an EchoStar company (Nasdaq: SATS), has now made available the first and only S-band LoRaWAN® Satellite Relay (EM-SR) device with associated network functions to help businesses fill terrestrial […]
DIRECTV to acquire EchoStar’s video distribution business, including DISH TV + Sling TV
DIRECTV and EchoStar (NASDAQ: SATS) have entered into a definitive agreement under which DIRECTV will acquire EchoStar’s video distribution business DISH DBS (“DISH”), including DISH TV and Sling TV, through […]