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[Satellite Today – 2-15-08] Beginning Feb. 25, SatelliteTODAY.com will feature the latest news from SATELLITE 2008.     Be sure to check out the live blog at www.SatelliteTODAY.com/blog for updates on […]

[Satellite News – 2-14-08] With the news that the German pay-TV operator Premiere‘s encryption system has been compromised, the issue of piracy in the pay-TV arena has come back into […]

[Satellite Today – 2-14-08] Measat Satellite Systems Sdn. Bhd. has received the first contract for capacity on its Africasat-1 satellite, the company announced Feb. 14.     SkyVision Global Networks LLC […]

[Satellite Today – 2-14-08] Com Dev USA LLC will acquire the passive microwave devices product line of L-3 Communications Electron Technologies Inc. from L-3 Communications for $12.2 million, Com Dev […]

[Satellite Today – 2-14-08] Eutelsat‘s strong performance in the video services arena helped the operator post a revenue increase in the second half of 2007, Eutelsat announced Feb. 14. Eutelsat […]

[Satellite Today – 2-14-08] Boeing Launch Services and Lockheed Martin Space Systems have been awarded contract modification by the U.S. Air Force to upgrade launch facilities, the U.S. Department of […]

[Satellite Today – 2-14-08] Premiere closed 2007 with more than 3.6 million pay-TV subscribers, adding more than 240,000 subscribers, the company announced Feb. 14.     Revenues fell from 1.1 billion […]

[Satellite Today – 2-14-08] Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) has completed the preliminary design review for the second Falcon 9/Dragon demonstration under NASA‘s Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) project, the […]

[Satellite Today – 2-14-08] Mitec Telecom Inc. has leased a facility in China that will increase its manufacturing capacity to 38,000 feet, the company announced Feb. 14.     The facility, […]

[Satellite Today – 2-14-08] Globecomm Systems Inc. has been awarded a $3.8 million infrastructure from an unnamed satellite service provider in Asia, the company announced Feb. 13.     The contract […]

[Satellite Today – 2-14-08]  Beginning Feb. 25, SatelliteTODAY.com will feature the latest news from SATELLITE 2008.     Be sure to check out the live blog at www.SatelliteTODAY.com/blog for updates on […]

[Satellite News – 2-13-08] Echostar Corp., Harbinger Capital Partners Master Fund 1 Ltd. and Harbinger Capital Partners Special Situations Fund LP (collectively, Harbinger) and other investors have agreed to invest […]

[Satellite Today – 2-13-08] DirecTV Group Inc. increased revenues in the fourth quarter 17 percent, the company announced Feb. 13.     Revenues for the quarter ending Dec. 31 increased 17 […]

[Satellite Today – 2-13-08] Canal Digital, the Nordic DTH platform owned by Telenor, ended 2007 with 932,000 subscribers. This was one of the highlights of Telenor’s full-year and fourth quarter […]

[Satellite Today – 2-13-08] Thrane & Thrane has won a satellite systems contract with one of the Asia’s biggest telcos, the company announced Feb. 12. The company has signed a […]

[Satellite Today – 2-13-08] AAE Systems Inc. is expanding operations and opening an office in India, the company announced Feb. 11.     The office, which will provide regional sales, engineering […]

[Satellite Today – 2-13-08] Verso Technologies Inc. and Advantech Satellite Networks have completed cellular backhaul interoperability tests, Verso announced Feb. 11.     Advantech Satellite Networks has certified and tested interoperability […]

[Satellite Today – 2-13-08] iDirect Inc. has promoted Chris Burdick to vice president of product management, the company announced Feb. 13.     Burdick, who was the lead architect and director […]

[Satellite Today – 2-13-08] ICO Global Communications Ltd. has selected Expway’s FastESG for the alpha trial of its ICO mim service, Expway announced Feb. 12.     ICO mim (mobile interactive […]

[Satellite Today – 2-13-08] Microspace Communications Corp. (Microspace), has been selected by Instant Access Media to deliver i-am TV, an out-of-home digital entertainment network, to the largest neighborhood and sports […]

Beginning Feb. 25, SatelliteTODAY.com will feature the latest news from SATELLITE 2008. Be sure to check out the live blog at www.SatelliteTODAY.com/blog for updates on all the happenings from Washington, […]

[Satellite News – 2-12-08] OpenTV, the U.S. based technology vendor, hopes the structural changes made in 2007 will better position the company in 2008.     The supplier of middleware and […]

[Satellite Today – 2-12-08] DataPath Inc. has named David Helfgott president and CEO, the company announced Feb. 12.     Helfgott, a 20-year veteran of the communications industry, has served as […]

[Satellite Today – 2-12-08] Hughes Network Systems LLC signed a contract with Russian broadband provider IPNet to implement a new HX system teleport in Moscow, Hughes announced Feb. 12.     […]

[Satellite Today – 2-12-08] Intelsat Ltd. has named a pair of executives to new position in order to fill roles vacated by COO James Frownfelter, who submitted his resignation Feb. […]

[Satellite Today – 2-12-08] Redknee Solutions Inc. will provide a turnkey billing system to Inmarsat PLC, the satellite operator announced Feb. 11.     Under the first phase of the agreement, […]

[Satellite News – 2-11-08] Israeli satellite operator Spacecom rejected a takeover bid by SES Global, Motty Slomovitz, Spacecom’s vice president of sales & marketing, North America, told Satellite News.     […]

[Satellite Today – 2-11-08] A Proton Breeze M carrying the Thor 5 satellite has been launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, International Launch Services (ILS) announced Feb. 11.     […]