Month: January 2006

Echostar Communications Corporation announced Jan. 4 that its Dish Network passed the 12 million customer milestone in late December. Dish Network reached 1 million subscribers in December 1997 and passed...

XM Satellite Radio unveiled four new portable radios Jan. 4, including a pair of units that can receive live XM signals as well as play stored digital music files,. The...

Orbcomm completed equity financings totaling more than $110 million which will be used primarily to fund Orbcomm’s next generation satellite program, the company announced Jan. 4. The investors were led...

EADS Astrium awarded a contract to Arianespace to launch the Skynet 5C satellite aboard an Ariane 5 rocket, EADS announced Jan. 4. Arianespace was selected in 2004 to launch Skynet...

Echostar Communications Corporation dropped Lifetime and Lifetime Movie Network from its Dish Network satellite TV service in a contract dispute with Lifetime Television, the companies announced Jan. 1. Lifetime demanded...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) test fired an upgraded version of the strap-on solid rocket motor for its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) for 58 seconds Dec. 29, ISRO...

Omega-Orion Enterprises Ltd. Co. has launched a new high-speed satellite Internet service, the company announced Jan. 2. The service will use the DOCSIS protocol used by cable companies for cable...

Com Dev International Ltd. was awarded a contract to provide satellite components to an unnamed Asian customer, Com Dev announced. Under the terms of the contract, valued at between $5...

Eumetsat, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, has begun commissioning operations for the second of its new generation of weather satellites, Meteosat Second Generation (MSG-2). Eumetsat has...

Technology Thrane & Thrane Brings Tracking And Lifeline To Commercial Fisherman Thrane & Thrane Inc. unveiled its Sailor VMS Systems, which provides global connectivity for commercial fisherman on Inmarsat-C, a...