Month: May 2007

By Jen DiMascio and Dave Ahearn The House approved a bill to fund military and missile defense operations in fiscal year 2008 that the president is threatening to veto. In...

Motorola Inc. signed an agreement to acquire Modulus Video Inc., the companies announced May 17. Modulus, a privately held company based in Sunnyvale, Calif., provides compression systems used to deliver...

Intelsat said May 17 that the satellite operator is unaware of any communiqués from the U.S. Department of Justice with regard to the unauthorized broadcasts on the Intelsat 12 satellite...

Swedish Space Corp. has been chosen by SES Sirius to run the implementation and operations of the next-generation Sirius-4 satellite, Swedish Space announced May 17. The satellite, being manufactured by...

Coinciding with the U.S. National Weather Service’s National Hurricane Preparedness Week, Iridium Satellite LLC is promoting May 21-25 as "Test Your Satellite Phone" Week. Similar to the popular biannual testing...

Telesat Canada has reached an agreement with MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) to operate MDA’s Radarsat-2 for the lifetime of the satellite, Telesat announced May 17. Telesat operates the...

Canal+ France ended March with 5.2 million subscribers, an increase of about 200,000 compared to the combined Canalsat/TPS numbers from the same quarter of 2006. The two platforms were combined...

Globalstar Inc. will add a gateway in Asia and extended a value-added reseller partnership, the company announced. Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. will construct and operate a Globalstar gateway ground station in...

Rad Data Communications has been appointed by Inmarsat as a solutions partner for the Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service, RAD Data announced May 16.

Shiron’s certified distributor and support center in Russia, JSC Cedicom, has contracted with Elvis-Telecom Co. for delivery of InterSky DVB-S2 broadband satellite solution, JSC Cedicom announced May 16. Shiron’s broadband...