Month: May 2006

New Skies Satellites has signed a framework agreement with the Netherlands Ministry of Defense to provide capacity aboard the NSS-7 and NSS-703 satellites for use by the Netherlands Armed Forces,...

German pay-TV operator Premiere lost more than 44,000 subscribers in the first three months of 2006, the company announced. Premiere’s subscriber base stood at 3.5 million on March 31. Revenues...

EADS Astrium signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop and build the satellite for the Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics (Gaia) mission, EADS announced May 11....

Panamsat Holding Corp. reported revenues of $213.2 million in the first quarter of 2006, up 2 percent from revenues of $208.8 million in the same period in 2005, the company...

Echostar Communications Corp.‘s first quarter profit was nearly cut in half, hampered in part by a charge related to a lawsuit from Tivo Inc. over digital video recorder technology, Echostar...

Integral Systems Inc. announced May 10 that it received a $21.5 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to the Command and Control System- Consolidated (CCS-C) effort. The modification,...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced May 9 that its subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., received a $1.7 million order for satellite communications equipment from Datapath that will support a major U.S....

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. reported a profit of $1.2 million on revenues of $58.6 million in the 2006 first quarter, Gilat announced May 10. In the first quarter of 2005,...

Hughes Network Systems LLC introduced its next-generation platform, dubbed HN System, which will support the DVB-S2 industry standard with adaptive coding and modulation. The system also is compliant with Internet...

Intelsat Ltd. reported revenues of $280.4 million in the first quarter of 2006, down from $293.2 million in the 2005 first quarter, the satellite operator announced May 10. Intelsat lost...