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BY RAY NELSON The first intercept of an air launch target missile from a military cargo plane, currently scheduled for 2008, could slip another year due to funding and mission […]

A House Armed Services Committee subcommittee approved $51.5 billion for the U.S. Department of Defense‘s space and missile defense programs for fiscal 2007, shifting some dollars away from high-risk systems […]

XMSR The stock of XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. took a small stumble after the company posted a wider first quarter loss and reveled that the U.S. government is investigating […]

Satellite pay-TV operators throughout Europe are facing more competition in the digital TV space. As well as competing against revitalized cable operators who are beginning to offer services such as […]

Andrew Corp. profit slipped on the 2006 second quarter as revenues remained flat, the company announced April 27. Second quarter income was $3.6 million in the 2006 second quarter, down […]

Asian commercial satellite operator Shin Satellite PCL has reached an agreement with China Satellite Communications Corp. (China Satcom) to launch IPStar broadband services in China. The first gateway in Beijing […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. announced April 28 that its board of directors has authorized the company to repurchase up to $50 million of its outstanding securities throughout the next 12 months. […]

Mobile Satellite Ventures LP (MSV) announced April 27 that the U.S. Patent Office awarded the company a patent for next-generation satellite networks in which the space-based transmitter and receiver functions […]

Com Dev International Ltd. has received an authorization to proceed to supply multiplexer and switch equipment to an unnamed European satellite manufacturer for use in a commercial communications satellite, Com […]

Technology Glowlink Rolls Out Geolocation product Glowlink announced the rollout of a geolocation product with integrated interference detection and monitoring capability. Targeted for the satellite communications market, the new product […]

By Owen D. Kurtin Last month’s column took a closer look at ancillary terrestrial component (ATC) technology and provides a natural lead-in to discuss the extraordinary spectrum-based valuations reportedly being […]

GSM and cellular operators require reliable equipment, service level agreements and the ability to use satellite bandwidth most efficiently. For satellite service providers and equipment manufacturers, there are new advancements […]

By Jason Bates When the first commercial imagery satellites were proposed, owners and investors had visions of billions of commercial dollars dancing through their heads. But the commercial market forecasts […]

By Peter J. Brown Robust, appealing and affordable Ka-band solutions are attracting new customers thanks to a growing menu of services. Applications ranging from enterprise and government high- speed data […]

By Gerry Oberst Participants discussed who would be the winners and losers in the switch from analog to digital television at the "European Switchover Strategies 2006" conference in Brussels in […]

With the expiration of its two-year no-compete deal with Intelsat, Loral Skynet once again can offer Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) to customers in North America via its Telstar 12 and […]

French satellite pay-TV operator, TPS is teaming up with France Telecom (FT) to offer IPTV subscribers HD (High-Definition) content at the beginning of June. Customers will be able to see […]

Globecast and Neotion formed a strategic agreement to offer turnkey MPEG-4 AVC satellite distribution platforms. The primary objective is to enable transmission for broadcasters. Globecast anticipates the roll out from […]

Tandberg Television announced it launched a high-definition (HD) digital satellite and electronic newsgathering solution Company executives claim that its new offering provides news gatherers bandwidth savings of up to 50 […]

The acquisition closure by Infosat Communications Inc. (Infosat) a satellite communications service provider, of Able Communications Inc. (Able) a company providing turn key wireless communications solutions to the petroleum industry, […]

Agiosat Global Communications announced its latest satellite-based communications solution ideal for SNG, BGAN Broadcast. BGAN Broadcast from Agiosat is communications system built around the new satellite network providing broadcast journalists […]

New Skies Satellites, an SES Global company announced April 26 that Rede Cancao Nova, a Brazilian Catholic broadcaster, has chosen its NSS-806 Latin American satellite to distribute its free-to-air international […]

Globecomm announced April 26 an expansion of its Broadcast Lab, a test facility for leading-edge video applications established in 2001, to integrate test capabilities for the many technologies involved in […]

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. announced April 26 it has delivered a SkyEdge broadband VSAT satellite network to the Telecommunications Cooperative of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (COTAS), Bolivia’s second-largest telecommunication […]

Hispasat, the Spanish-based satellite operator, has almost doubled its profits in 2005, as well as reduce its net debt significantly in 2005. These were two of the highlights of its […]

Streambox Inc., a supplier of real time video transport for broadcasting, satellite and cable announced it has partnered with Inmarsat to facilitate the transmission and delivery of low latency, real […]

Philippines broadcaster GMA7 will take a flyaway from Advent Communications up Mount Everest to cover the first Philippines Mount Everest Expedition. GMA is purchasing a Mantis 190 antenna for C-band […]

Geoeye, a leading satellite remote-sensing imaging company, announced its partner European Space Imaging (EUSI) received an additional contract from the European Commission to supply Orbview-3 high-resolution map-accurate imagery. The contract […]

The Russian State Commission has completed its investigation into the Proton M/Breeze M anomaly that left the Arabsat 4A satellite in the wrong orbit eight weeks ago, during a mission […]

Globecomm Systems Inc., a global provider of end-to-end satellite-based communications solutions, announced that it has been selected by ImaginAsian TV (iaTV), an Asian-American television network, to provide complete satellite distribution […]