Focus: Telecom

[Satellite Today 03-12-09] Sirius XM Radio added about 83,000 new subscribers at the end of the year, well short of the 1.1 million subscribers the company added in the fourth...

[Satellite Today 03-12-09] Thales Alenia Space has won a contract with JSC ISS-Reshetnev Co. to supply the Telkom-3 communications satellite payload, the company announced March 11.     ISS is the...

[Satellite Today 03-12-09] International Launch Services (ILS) has been contracted by ViaSat to the launch the ViaSat-1 satellite on an ILS Proton in the first half of 2011, ILS announced...

[Satellite Today 03-11-09] SES Astra will move its Astra 2C satellite from its current orbital position at 28.2 degrees East to 31.5 degrees East to take over the mission of...

[Satellite Today 03-11-09] TeamCast is releasing Power4-T2, the first version of its DVB-T2 modulator, the company announced March 10.     The company said the solution had just completed DVB-T2 testing,...

[Satellite Today 03-11-09] International Datacasting Corp. (IDC), in partnership with its Australian-based distributor, OmniCast, received an order from Global Vision Networks for the provision of a digital cinema broadband distribution...

[Satellite Today 03-10-09] SkyTerra appointed Gary Epstein as executive vice president of law and regulation, the company announced March 9.     Epstein will be responsible for the legal, legislative and...

[Satellite Today 03-10-09] Swe-Dish Satellite Systems launched a high-capacity satcom-on-the-move terminal, the company announced March 9.     The terminal is the result of an integration of Swe-Dish’s satellite terminal technology...

[Satellite Today 03-10-09] EMS Satamatics has received Germanischer Lloyd-class approval for its latest Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) solution, EMS announced March 9.     The small size of the...

[Satellite Today 03-10-09] Orbcomm’s two-way satellite data communications services have been authorized for use in Greece, Albania and Latvia, the company announced March 9.     The company said the increase...