Month: January 2006

Ondas Media CEO Celso Azevedo is confident that satellite radio will have as big an impact in Europe as it has in the United States. Ondas Media plans to launch...

EADS Space estimates that its share of work under the contract signed by Galileo Industries with the European Space Agency (ESA) will be about 200 million euros, EADS said Jan....

NASA‘s New Horizons mission began its nine-year flight to Pluto after two days of delays. The satellite was launched aboard an International Launch Services Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral...

German-based ND Satcom, a global supplier of satellite-based broadband VSAT, broadcast and defense communication network solutions, has seen the market’s demand for meshed and hybrid network topologies. According to the...

Bill Page, appointed vice president, broadcast sales, will head its new broadcast business division in Herndon, VA. Prior to joining Vocality, Page was at Brightstar Communications, Voyager and Reuters Television....

Kurt Pauwels, managing director of Belgian direct-to-home (DTH) provider TV Vlaanderen believes 2006 will be a “breakthrough” year for digital television in the country. The new DTH operator launched digital...

Spot Image Corp., the U.S. marketing arm of France’s Spot Image, has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for the purchase of satellite imagery products and...

Echostar Communications Corp. filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission Jan. 19 to offer $1 billion in debt securities. The proceeds of the offering, being conducted by...

The European Space Agency (ESA) signed a 950 million euro ($1.2 billion) contract with Galileo Industries GmbH for the development and in-orbit validation of the Galileo satellite navigation constellation’s first...

SES Astra signed an agreement with Top TV, a free-to-air leisure and shopping channel in the Czech Republic, to provide for digital capacity on Astra 2C, SES announced Jan. 19....