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Federal District Court Judge Lourdes G. Baird has rejected a summary judgment motion filed by DirecTV seeking to prevent claims by the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) and Bala Cynwd,...

Rick Masoni has been named vice president of business development at Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems (LMCSS), taking over that position from Chuck Stees, who left the company to become...

EchoStar Communications [Nasdaq: DISH] has reached an agreement with 13 state attorneys general over a dispute about advertising disclosures, customer relationship and similar issues relating to EchoStar and its independent...

Because of the Memorial Day holiday, SATELLITE TODAY will not publish on Monday, May 26. We’ll see you again on Tuesday, May 27. Have a great holiday.

The European Space Agency‘s (ESA) Mars Express satellite, an Astra 2C, is scheduled to be launched on June 2 at 19:45 CEST by a Soyuz launcher from the Baikonur Cosmodrome...

Hughes Network Systems (HNS), a Germantown, Md.-based unit of Hughes Electronics [NYSE: GMH], has launched its DirecWay broadband by satellite services in Brazil and throughout South America. Through a newly...

The Canadian Space Agency‘s MOST microsatellite is scheduled to blast into orbit on June 30. Built at Dynacon of Toronto, and the universities of British Columbia and Toronto, MOST (Microvariability...

Xytrans, which produces high-frequency radiofrequency subsystems for broadband communications, has released its latest two-way satellite VSAT outdoor unit that integrates a high-performance Ka-band block upconverter with off-the-shelf Ka-, Ku- or...

The Canadian Space Agency said Thursday thatitsOSIRIS (Optical Spectrograph and InfraRed Imager System) instrument flying onboard Swedish satellite Odin will continue to provide data relating to ozone depletion for an...

Norsat International [Nasdaq: NSAT], a Burnaby, British Columbia-based firm, has won a contract worth in excess of C$1 million (US$730,000) to supply components for use in military shipboard satellite terminals....