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ABC News has agreed to purchase On2 Technologies‘ [AMEX: ONT] Laptop News Gathering (LNG) system to enable its correspondents covering the Iraqi crisis to transmit reports via satellite. The unit...

British Airways [NYSE: BAB] is trying out the new Connexion by Boeing‘s in-flight satellite broadband service onboard a daily transatlantic flight between London and New York. The service gives passengers...

Telesat Canada on Thursday experienced a malfunction on its Nimiq 2 satellite that affected the available power on the spacecraft. The company took steps to restore the affected traffic. The...

Loral Space & Communications [NYSE: LOR] wants shareholder approval to implement a reverse stock split at its annual meeting on May 29 to comply with New York Stock Exchange share...

Intelsat reported reduced profitability and revenues for its fourth quarter due to a challenging telecommunications environment. For the quarter, Intelsat’s (Washington, D.C.)net income decreased by $68.3 million, or 68 percent,...

Don’t miss the world’s largest satellite industry conference and exhibition! SATELLITE 2003 February 26-28, 2003 Washington Convention Center Washington, DC http://www.satellite2003.com SATELLITE 2003 is the industry event where you can...

National Scientific [OTC: NSCT] is teaming with Verify Systems to develop and provide a mobile wireless platform for its iVERIFIED school bus rider authentication system. iVERIFIED allows school systems to...

Raytheon [NYSE: RTN] has completed contractor acceptance and inspection for the Federal Aviation Administration‘s Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), a component in the agency’s next-generation space-based aircraft navigation and landing...

Space Imaging Southeast Asia, an affiliate of Space Imaging (Denver, Colo.), has begun direct tasking and data collection of high-resolution imagery from the IKONOS satellite. The operations as well as...

France Telecom‘s [NYSE: FTE] Mobile Satellite Communications unit is extending the range of mobile satellite services by teaming up with Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications, a handheld satellite telephone service based in...