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[Satellite Today – 09-13-07] Canalsat, the French direct-to-home operator with more than five million subscribers, said Sept. 12, that it had signed a new deal with Philips for advanced High-Definition […]

[Satellite Today – 09-13-07]  Spacenet Inc. has introduced a new mobile Emergency Communications Vehicle (ECV) for disaster recovery and first-responder organizations, the company announced Sept. 13. The ECV is based […]

[Satellite Today – 09-13-07] Avanti Communications Group’s Hylas satellite will be launched in 2009 using a Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) rocket, the company announced Sept. 13. Hylas, a Ka-band […]

[Satellite Today – 09-13-07]  SES Global South America Holdings has signed a five-year agreement with AR-SAT for five transponders on the AMC-6 satellite, the company announced Sept. 13. Empresa Argentina […]

[09/12/07 – Satellite Today] The Modern Times Group (MTG) is the latest player to look to tap into the pay-TV market in the Ukraine. The company, announced that through its […]

[09/12/07 – Satellite Today]  Shin Satellite has signed a key deal to bring its state-of-the-art satellite broadband services to Malaysia, the company announced Sept. 11. The company has signed a […]

[09/12/07 – Satellite Today]  Iridium is going to provide the Swedish Armed Forces with critical communications service, the company announced Sept. 12. The Iridium satellite services are being supplied under […]

[09/12/07 – Satellite News] Inmarsat’s announcement earlier this year that the company planned to enter the handheld market is a bold statement of intent. The company aims to be a […]

[09/12/07 – Satellite Today] TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) has been awarded a five-year, $25 million contract to supply the Department of Defense with communications and services, the company announced Sept. 12. […]

[09/12/07 – Satellite Today]  Entavio will be broadcasting German handball, basketball and volleyball league games thanks to an agreement with Sportdigital.tv, the company announced Sept. 12. Entavio is a fully […]

[09/12/07 – Satellite Today] The Boeing Company has successfully assembled and integrated all flight hardware onto the first Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite, the company announced Sept. 12. The […]

[09/12/07 – Satellite Today]  Integral Systems Inc. repurchased more than a million shares of its common stock at $27.00 per share, for a total of $49.95 million, the company announced […]

Inmarsat’s announcement earlier this year that the company planned to enter the handheld market is a bold statement of intent. The company aims to be a key player in the […]

[09-11-07 – Satellite Today] SES Astra is bringing its interactive TV service Blucom to the Middle East, the company announced September 11. SES has signed a contract with MBC, a […]

[09-11-07 – Satellite Today]  Arianespace has won a new deal to launch four satellites for a key European space program, the company announced September 11. It has signed a deal […]

[09-11-07 – Satellite Today]  Globecast and Arabsat will be extending their partnership until 2014, the companies announced Sept. 11. The two companies have expanded the worldwide distribution of the Arabsat/ASBU […]

[09-11-07 – Satellite Today]  DirecTV and Thomson are launching a satellite television service for multi-family dwellings like apartment complexes, the company announced Sept. 11. The DirecTV MFH3 (Multi-Family Housing version […]

[09-11-07 – Satellite Today] Spacenet Inc. has signed a sales agent agreement with Tessco Inc., the company announced Sept. 11. Tessco,  a wholly owned subsidiary of Tessco Technologies Inc., will […]

[09-11-07 – Satellite Today] QinetiQ has developed a secure tracking system based on Iridium satellites, the company announced Sept. 11. The Mobile Asset Information Acquisition (MAIA) system provides a secure, […]

The article titled“Proton Failure Destroys JCSAT-11”in the Sept. 6 issue of    Satellite News should have read that ILS had two or three more launches planned before the end of the […]

Arianespace Tapped To Launch Constellation Of 48 Satellites Globalstar Inc. chose Arianespace to launch all 48 satellites in its second-generation constellation. Jean-Yves Le Gall, chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and […]

Proton Rocket Fails In Launch, JCSAT-11 Satellite Lost The Proton Breeze M rocket failed after liftoff while carrying a JCSAT-11 telecommunications satellite for JSAT Corp. of Japan, Krunichev announced. It […]

A key sensor being built for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) passed a critical test last month. Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) is the prime contractor for NPOESS; […]

The Airborne Laser (ABL) ballistic missile defense (BMD) system scored well in a test of its beam control/fire control system, according to the Missile Defense Agency and contractors involved. That […]

Lawmakers are facing tough decisions on whether to proceed with pending proposals to cut vital funding for the Airborne Laser (ABL) program and the planned European ballistic missile defense (BMD) […]

American and Russian negotiators are attempting to work out their deep and bitter conflict over U.S. and European plans to install a U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) system in the […]

[09-10-07 – Satellite Today]  DataPath and Qualcomm have signed a joint marketing agreement to provide integrated satellite and cellular communications solutions for military and disaster recovery teams, the company announced […]

[09-10-07 – Satellite Today] Lockheed Martin has successfully mated the spacecraft bus and the payload for the first Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO-1) satellite, the company announced Sept. […]

[09-10-07 – Satellite Today] The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has awarded Marshall Communications Corp. a contract to provide the only Digital Video Broadcasting-Return Channel Satellite (DVB-RCS/S2) hub in the […]

09-10-07 – Satellite Today] ND SatCom will be providing two satellite uplinks for VTS, the company announced Sept. 10. VTS, a German system integrator for audio and video technology ordered […]