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| 05.13.2008 |
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Comtech To Acquire Radyne 
[Satellite News – 5-13-08] Comtech Telecommunications Corp. will acquire Radyne Corp. in a deal that will allow Comtech to improve its leadership position in the ground station and amplifier markets, Fred Kornberg, CEO and president of Comtech, said in...
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| 05.09.2008 |
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BT Vision CEO Confident Telco Can Hit Subscriber Targets
[Satellite News – 5-9-08] U.K. telecommunications giant BT Vision has perhaps one of the hardest tasks of any major operator in Europe in terms of penetrating the TV market. BT is attempting to gain a foothold in a market where...
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| 05.08.2008 |
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Bharti Expects To Be Number One In Satellite Pay-TV In India
[Satellite News – 5-8-08] Bharti Airtel, one of India’s largest telecommunications companies, wants to expand its business and is setting its sights on India’s burgeoning satellite pay-TV market. Bharti Airtel already...
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| 05.07.2008 |
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Sea Launch Shares Land Launch Strategy
[Satellite News – 5-7-08] The inaugural flight of the Zenit-3SLB Land Launch vehicle carried the Amos-3 satellite into space April 28 from Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, the culmination of a program initiated in 2003 to provide more options for...
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| 05.06.2008 |
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MSV Moving Ahead On Inmarsat Deal, Posts Revenue Increase For Quarter
[Satellite News – 5-6-08] Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) posted a 6 percent increase in revenues for the first quarter of 2008 and has made significant progress in implementing the cooperation agreement signed with Inmarsat plc in December, the company...
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| 05.05.2008 |
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Yes Looks To Multiplatform Strategy in Israel
[Satellite News – 5-5-08] Israeli satellite pay-TV operator Yes may only have 550,000 subscribers, but it is determined to be one of the most innovative pay-TV operators in terms of adapting its satellite strategy, said Itzhak Elyakim, the...
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| 05.02.2008 |
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Hispasat Plans Future Around Amazonas 2
[Satellite News – 5-2-08] Spanish satellite operator Hispasat is targeting a strong performance in its core markets in Europe and Latin America throughout the next year, with the 2009 launch its Amazonas 2 satellite expected to help the operator make...
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| 05.01.2008 |
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Media Partners Forecasts Strong DTH Growth in Asia
[Satellite News – 5-1-08] Media Partners Asia believes the direct-to-home (DTH) market in Asia will grow to around 44 million customers throughout the region by 2012. Satellite pay-TV services are on the rise in the region. “DTH...
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| 04.29.2008 |
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USGS To Make 36 Years Of Landsat Data Available On Web
[Satellite News – 4-29-08] The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is making all archived Landsat imagery available on the Internet for free, the agency announced April 28. By February, users will be able to access any Landsat scene held in...
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| 04.25.2008 |
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Arqiva Lays Down Marker in HD Arena
[Satellite News – 4-25-08] Arqiva is expanding into the international high-definition (HD) market with launches of a new international platform for occasional use broadcasting as well as a new MPEG-4 HD platform for Asia. Simon...
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| 04.23.2008 |
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Bell Executive Pushing Satellite Claims In Canada
[Satellite News – 4-23-08] Bell Canada, which owns and runs Canada’s largest direct-to-home (DTH) operator, Bell ExpressVu, is pushing satellite technology as a solution to help the country become fully digital. If the operator...
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| 04.22.2008 |
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TerreStar Restructures Board, Announces Layoffs
[Satellite News – 4-22-08] On the heels of the resignation of CEO and President Robert Brumley, TerreStar Networks Inc. is laying off nearly half of its employees in a cost-cutting measure, parent company TerreStar Corp. said April 22...
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| 04.21.2008 |
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ESA: Europe Leads Way In Earth Observation
[Satellite News – 4-21-08] The European Space Agency (ESA) is prepared to take the lead in Earth observation after awarding a pair of satellites for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) program, ESA’s director of Earth...
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| 04.18.2008 |
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Izmailov Reveals RSCC’s Ambitious Satellite Plans
[Satellite News – 4-18-08] The Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC), one of the main players on the Russian satellite landscape, recently signed a deal for a new satellite, the Express-AM4. The Russian national satellite operator is set to...
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| 04.16.2008 |
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Mount Everest Defeated With Help From Satellite Technology
[Satellite News – 4-16-08] Former Near Earth LLC President J. Armand Musey has reached base camp on Mount Everest and is preparing to ascend to Camp 1, 19,600 ft. above sea level. Musey, who left Wall Street in 2007, is climbing Mount...
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| 04.15.2008 |
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Globecomm Business Evolves With Technology
[Satellite News – 4-15-08] In the month since the World Teleport Association (WTA) named Globecomm Systems President Kenneth Miller Teleport Executive of the Year, the company has been awarded more than $16 million in contracts by the U.S. government...
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| 04.15.2008 |
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EchoStar Hit Harder by Satellite Loss - Analysts
[Satellite News - 4-15-08] SES has confirmed the worst-case scenario for the AMC-14 satellite, declaring the spacecraft a total loss April 11. The loss is a blow to SES, but will create more problems for EchoStar, which had been banking on AMC-14 to help...
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| 04.14.2008 |
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Lunasat Ready to Bring Consumer Satellite Broadband to Africa
[Satellite News – 4-14-08] Lunasat could bring satellite broadband services to consumer markets in Africa within the next two years. Ziad Monla, Lunasat’s CEO, told Satellite News, “We are keeping an eye on [ bringing satellite broadband to...
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| 04.11.2008 |
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DTH Services Come To Cambodia
[Satellite News – 04-10-08] Households in Cambodia now have access to satellite-TV services following the launch of the country’s first direct-to-home (DTH) service April 3. Techno-DTV is being operated by Cambodia DTV Network...
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| 04.10.2008 |
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Canadian Government Rejects ATK-MDA Deal
[Satellite News – 4-10-08] The Canadian government has rejected the sale of MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA)'s satellite business to Alliant Techsystems Inc. (ATK), Canadian Industry Minister Jim Prentice said in an April 10 e-mail to the...
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