Month: October 2006

ND Satcom announced Oct. 5 that it has earned a contract for VSAT systems from France VSAT service provider LCDC Telecoms. LCDC will supply end customer Maurel & Prom, an...

Russia and India will share use of Glonass, a 24-satellite navigational and global positioning system, the Russian Federal Space Agency announced Oct. 4. Glonass is designed for military and civilian...

Decarta, a supplier of software platforms and services for the location-based services industry, and Globexplorer, a provider of a commercial library of aerial photos, satellite imagery and geographic maps, have...

Two scientists who helped create the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Oct. 3....

A U.S. court of appeals on Oct. 3 granted Echostar Communications Corp.’s request to stay a permanent injunction aiming to bar the company from selling digital video recorders after it...

Boeing Co. will pay SES Americom $70 million as part of the shutdown of the Connexion By Boeing inflight Internet service, SES Global announced Oct. 3. Boeing is using the...

Sirius Satellite Radio added 441,000 net subscribers in the 2006 third quarter, raising its total base to 5.1 million, the company announced Oct. 4. In the same period, XM Satellite...

Datapath Inc. announced Oct. 4 that it won a $181 million contract by the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command to provide specialized satellite communications networks for the Joint Network Node (JNN)...

Zodiac Maritime Agencies Ltd., an international ship-management company, has equipped its fleet of 132 ships with an Iridium Satellite-based e-mail system supplied by And Group. Each shipboard package includes a...

GMV Space Systems Inc. received a contract from Orbital Sciences Corp. to provide flight-dynamics software for the Thor 2-R telecommunications satellite, GMV announced. Orbital received a contract from Telenor ASA...