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Loral Skynet completed the sale of its business television product line to dbsXmedia, part of the Ariel Way Inc. group of companies, for a combination of cash, stock in Ariel...

XM Satellite Radio added a record 541,140 net subscribers in its 2005 first quarter , a 68 percent increase over the 321,675 net subscriber additions recorded in the first quarter...

Royal Philips Electronics has unveiled its Nexperia One Chip Set-Top Box (STB) Engine for satellite STBs, the company announced. The single chip combines MPEG-2 video decoding, satellite channel decoding, a...

Broadcasting Satellite System Corp. (B-Sat) of Japan has authorized Lockheed Martin to begin construction of B-Sat’s next geostationary telecommunications satellite, Lockheed Martin said The satellite, designated BSAT-3a, is based on...

Hughes Network Systems introduced its DW7000 family of next generation broadband satellite routers. The family initially consists of two products: the DW7700 for high-end enterprise and government applications and the...

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) signed a contract with ICO Satellite Management LLC for the design and construction of a geostationary Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) satellite that, along with a terrestrial ancillary...

The satellite system operated by SES Astra now serves more than 100 million homes, according to research SES Astra commissioned. This represents an increase of 8.3 million households since SES...

Weida Communications Inc. a U.S.-managed company that provides data communications services via satellite to businesses and government agencies in China said it is cooperating with a Securities and Exchange Commission...

Sea Launch LLC delivered DirecTV‘s Spaceway F1 satellite to orbit April 26, Sea Launch said. A Zenit-3SL delivered the satellite, the heaviest commercial satellite launched to date at 6,080 kg....

Com Dev International Ltd. said it received an order valued at $4.1 million to supply an unnamed customer with the company’s core switch, RF components and multiplexer products. Com Dev...