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The Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel has granted a 90-day extension to rStar [Nasdaq: RSTRC], a Sunrise, Fla.-based satellite private network supplier, to meet its listing requirement. Nasdaq requires that a...

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Trimble [Nasdaq: TRMB] is supplying Global Positioning System reference stations and virtual reference station (VRS) software to the Seismological Bureau of Sichuan Province in China to establish a...

ACS [NYSE: ACS], a Dallas-based provider of business process and information technology outsourcing solutions, has begun construction of satellite- linked technology center in Accra, Ghana. Located near the Accra airport,...

InterWAVE Communications International [Nasdaq: IWAV], a Menlo Park, Calif.-based provider of compact wireless communications systems, has received a $1.8 million contract from Mauritel Mobiles to provide a terrestrial wireless/satellite communications...

After the Rosetta comet exploration mission was delayed due to problems with the Ariane 5 rocket, the spacecraft will now be sent to rendezvous with Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko instead of the...

Home Box Office announced this week that it will switch satellite transponders for its digital programming beginning June 1. The AOL Time Warner [NYSE: AOL] unit will begin using the...

Antonio Rodota, director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), is delighted that the agency’s member states reached agreement earlier this week on how the Galileo satellite navigation program will...

CSI Wireless [TSX: CSY], a Calgary, Alberta-based manufacturer of advanced wireless and Global Positioning System products, has signed an agreement with FleetBoss Global Positioning System Solutions to supply a customized...

Helius, a Lindon, Utah-based provider of satellite broadband routing, has hired Jeff Curtis as senior vice president of sales and Mike Tippets as senior vice president of marketing. They will...

Boeing [NYSE: BA] has signed a deal with German air carrier Lufthansa under which the airline will be the first to rollout the Connexion by Boeing satellite-based in-flight broadband service...