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[Satellite TODAY 10-16-09] Intelsat is looking to raise $500 million by selling 8.5 percent senior notes due 2019 at an issue price of 99.166 percent, the company announced Oct. 14....

[Satellite TODAY 10-16-09] More than 50,000 of SkyWave Mobile Communications’ North American GlobalWave customers have migrated to the Inmarsat network for satellite-based asset tracking, monitoring and control applications, SkyWave announced...

[Satellite TODAY 10-16-09] Geospatial imagery company RapidEye named MapMart as its data distributor in the United States, RapidEye announced Oct. 15.     MapMart will be RapidEye’s first distributor for the...

[Satellite TODAY 10-16-09] Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) appointed CEO Patrick DeWitt the company’s chairman, the company Oct. 15.     DeWitt will relinquish his duties as CEO and retire at the end...

[Satellite TODAY 10-16-09] Lockheed Martin’s board named Christopher Kubasik president and COO effective Jan. 1, the company announced Oct. 15.     Bob Stevens will retain his position as the company’s...

The second paragraph of an Oct. 15 story brief should have read, “Orbit expects total worldwide VSAT systems orders to exceed $100 million this year.”     Orbit was referring to...

[Satellite TODAY 10-15-09] Telesat’s Nimiq 5 broadcast satellite was placed into commercial service on Oct. 10, the operator announced Oct. 14. All available capacity on Nimiq 5 is leased to...

[Satellite TODAY 10-15-09] Eutelsat has signed a new multi-year capacity deal with Eastern European DTH operator Cyfrowy Polsat, the company announced Oct. 14. Cyfrowy Polsat renewed its contract with Eutelsat...

[Satellite TODAY 10-15-09] Orbit Technologies has received orders in excess of $5 million for marine VSAT satellite communication systems in the second quarter this year, the company announced Oct. 14....

[Satellite TODAY 10-15-09] There will be over 20 million cable broadband connections in Europe by the end of 2009, Cable Europe, an association of cable operators throughout Europe, reported Oct....