Month: October 2006

Iridium Satellite LLC announced Oct. 30 that it has launched products and service offerings in Brazil through an alliance with Omnilink. Anatel, the Brazilian telecommunications agency, has confirmed operational authority...

Porsche Cars of North America Inc. has signed a deal with XM Satellite Radio, while Bentley Motors Inc. has added Sirius Satellite Radio, in a pair of exclusive deals announced...

Alamo Rent-A-Car has introduced portable GPS units at 51 of its locations across the United States, the company announced Oct. 30. Locations offering the GPS units include major American airports...

Rainbow Media continues to expand the global reach of its Voom high-definition (HD) channel, signing a distribution agreement with Zonemedia (Zone Vision Networks) to sell Voom throughout much of Europe,...

Terrestar Networks Inc., a provider of 4G mobile communications networks, announced Oct. 30 a cooperative research and development agreement with the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), part of the...

SES Global and Eutelsat plan to invest 130 million euros ($165.3 million) to develop a mobile broadcasting satellite service for Europe, the companies announced Oct. 30. The joint venture will...

The People’s Republic of China’s first large direct broadcasting satellite, Sinosat-2, was launched Oct. 29 aboard a Long March-3B rocket, according to Xinhua. Sinosat-2, which will be positioned at 92.2...

Northrop Grumman has a handle on cost overruns that have plagued the National Polar-orbiting Observational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), and the program can be completed for $11.5 billion, an official...

The European polar-orbiting satellite Metop-A delivered its first images Oct. 25, the first day the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) was operational....

The combination of the Kudelski Group and OpenTV should create a much stronger force in the satellite pay-TV and other markets, as Kudelski gained control of OpenTV in a deal...