Month: April 2004

Kazakhstan Telecommunications (Katelco) selected Motorola Inc. [MOT] to provide digital video encoders and satellite set-top equipment and services to build a 16-channel encoder system located in Uralsk City, increasing the...

Sea Launch Co. LLC said its floating Sea Launch platform arrived at its launch site at the equator, and it is on schedule to send DirecTV Inc.‘s [DTV] 7S broadcast...

The Carlyle Group, a large private equity firm, purchased satellite service provider Kingston Inmedia from Kingston Communications for $60.3 million in cash.Kingston Inmedia delivers enterprise, broadcast and Internet solutions to...

iSECUREtrac [ISRE] signed an agreement with the Middlesex County Sheriff’s Office of East Cambridge, Mass., to supply the jurisdiction with its tracNET24 solution. The product will enable the county to...

Arianespace officials today reported sales of $669.2 million, which contributed to a net profit for the year of $11 million. Contributing to the profitable year were the reaffirmation of support...

New Skies Satellites N.V. [NSK] confirmed Friday it is working with Goldman Sachs to explore ‘alternatives’ in light of its recent unsuccessful attempt to buy its bigger rival PanAmSat [SPOT]....

CMC Electronics Inc. will supply its GPS-based flight management system, the CMA-900, to the Brazilian Air Force for its fleet of 20 C-130, B707, P-95 and Learjet-35 aircraft. CMC said...

The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet yesterday approved a bill to re-authorize the Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act (SHVIA) of 1999 prior to the expiration...

Arinc Inc. officials said today they would provide a new global satellite telephone service to support the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command‘sfleet of heavy transport and tanker aircraft. Satellite...

Netherlands-based New Skies Satellites [NSK] and the Indian Space Research Organization inked an agreement for multiple, high-powered, 36 MHz Ku-band transponders on the NSS-6 satellite. Financial terms were not disclosed....