DirecTV Board Goes To 11 With Saban Election
The DirecTV Group has elected Haim Saban, chairman and CEO of Saban Capital Group Inc., to its board of directors. The appointment is effective immediately and boosts DirecTV’s board to...
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Japan Schedules Satellite Launch For February 2005
Satellite Today has learned that Japan’s government has approved plans to launch a satellite early next year. According to an Associated Press report, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will...
Orbimage Launches GPS-Enabled Buoys
Orbimage said its SeaStar Fisheries Information Service has released the new OrbBuoy product line. The low-profile buoys are designed to be stealthy to avoid loss, but easily retrievable through the...
AIA Predicts Growth In Space Industry Sales
The Aerospace Industry Association predicts that the sales in the aerospace industry’s space segment will continue to increase in 2005. At the association’s annual aerospace industry review and forecast luncheon,...
Eutelsat Signs Key Chinese Deal
Eutelsat‘s broadband affiliate, Skylogic, has signed a breakthrough deal with leading Chinese telco, Chinasatcom, to improve communications between China and Italy. The deal will see Chinasatcom and Skylogic create a...
G2 Satellite Solutions, MCI Ink Two-Year Deal
G2 Satellite Solutions, an independent wholly owned subsidiary of Panamsat Corp., said that MCI has renewed a multi-million dollar, two-year deal for satellite services. Under the terms of the deal,...
XM, Sirius Announce Deals With Toyota
XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio have inked separate deals that will bring each company’s satellite radio receivers into Toyota-manufactured automobiles. XM said that Toyota has selected it as...
Astro Closes In On 1.5 Million Subscribers
Astro All Asia Networks (Astro), the satellite pay-TV operator in Malaysia, has announced that it reached 1.471 million subscribers at the end of October 2004 in its third quarter results....
Arianespace Reschedules Helios IIA Launch For Dec. 18
Arianespace today said that the launch of the Helios IIA satellite has been rescheduled for Dec. 18. The launch was originally scheduled to take place Dec. 10, but it was...
Swe-Dish Nabs $20 Million Defense Contract
Swe-Dish Satellite Systems said it has been awarded a $20 million frame contract from the U.S. Defense Department for mobile satellite communications equipment and support services. According to the company,...