Month: May 2006

Italy-based Eurimage, Digitalglobe‘s European business partner, has signed a contract with the European Commission‘s (EC) Joint Research Center to supply satellite imagery over a four-year period, Digitalglobe announced May 25....

Satellite operators are leading the charge in the Interactive TV Advertising arena, according to top executives from direct-to-home operators BSkyB and Multichoice. The companies are being very progressive, providing strong...

Euronews CEO Philippe Cayla believes it will be a while before the channel provider will offer news services in high definition (HD). Euronews is one of the most widely watched...

From June through November, residents along the Southeast and Gulf Coast regions of the United States brace for nature’s furry. Government officials already predict that the 2006 hurricane season is...

International Communications Group (ICG) has appointed L2 Consulting Services Inc. as an authorized reseller for its Iridium-based satellite communication products in the aviation market. L2 will be responsible for promoting...

Orbital Sciences Corp. received a contract from the U.S. Air Force for two Minotaur launches under the Rocket System Launch Program, the company announced May 25. Under the $23 million...

Harris Corp. signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aastra Digital Video, a maker of video networking, encoding, decoding and multiplexing technologies used by television broadcasters, telecommunications providers and satellite networks,...

EMS Technologies Inc. announced that Francis Erbrick and Bradford Parkinson were elected to the company’s board of directors at the annual meeting of shareholders May 19. Erbrick and Parkinson join...

Sweden’s Saab Ericsson Space will provide modular payload adapters for Land Launch vehicles, Saab announced. Land Launch, a collaboration of Sea Launch and Space International Services, will use a Zenit-3SLB...

Lockheed Martin and EADS Astrium announced May 25 that they have signed a teaming agreement to ensure interoperability of the GPS 3 constellation and Europe’s Galileo program. The companies will...