Month: January 2006

According to press reports in the United Kingdom, NTL is moving closer to agreeing a deal to takeover Virgin Mobile in a 961 million British pounds ($1.7 billion) deal. The...

The launch of NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto was delayed 24 hours due to high winds at the launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The launch...

The Export and Import Bank of China announced Jan. 13 that it would provide $200 million in credit to Nigeria to support construction of the country’s first communications satellite project,...

Mediaset SpA has agreed to sell satellite TV broadcasting rights for one of Italy’s top soccer teams to Sky Italia, according to media reports. Sky Italia, a unit of News...

Echostar Communications Corp. announced Jan. 16 that Oxygen Media, a U.S. woman-owned and -operated TV network, is now available on Dish Network. Dish entered into a multi-year agreement to offer...

International Launch Services (ILS) received a contract from Telesat to launch the Nimiq 4 satellite on a Proton Breeze M vehicle, ILS announced Jan. 17. Financial terms were not disclosed....

The Galileo In Orbit Validation Elements-A (GIOVE-A) test satellite began transmitting signals Jan. 12, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Alcatel Alenia Space announced. GIOVE-A, launched in December, was built...

The board of Telenor Satellite Services AS (Telenor) appointed Morten Tengs as the company’s CEO effective Feb. 2, the company announced Jan. 12. Tengs replaces Tore Hilde who will leave...

Orbimage finalized its acquisition of rival Space Imaging, creating an imagery satellite operator dubbed Geoeye that will operate a pair of spacecraft capable of producing high-resolution images with a third...

Sky Italia, which is preparing to launch personal video recorder (PVR) services in Italy, selected Pace Micro Technology to provide the set-top box provider for the new MySky service. Pace...