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DirecTV’s will launch a package of channels tailored for fans of Italian soccer, the satellite operator announced March 23. Calciodirect will offer a trio of soccer channels, GolTV, Fox Soccer […]

U.K. satellite pay-TV operator BSkyB plans to launch a variety of new services enabled by its acquisition of Easynet, BSkyB announced. The satellite operator, which has been accelerating its plans […]

Raytheon‘s Intelligence and Information Systems business has won a six-month, competitive contract from the U.S. National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration‘s (NOAA) National Ocean Service to develop a conceptual design, life-cycle […]

STMicroelectronics, a supplier of silicon chips for set-top boxes (STBs), announced March 22 a low-cost satellite STB receiver/decoder chip – the STI5188 – intended for high-volume free-to-air markets in Asia, […]

International Communications Group Inc. (ICG) announced March 22 that it has completed testing of its ACARS-compliant (Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System), Iridium-based messaging solution and delivered initial production equipment. […]

Space Explorations Technology Corp. (SpaceX) postponed the inaugural flight of its Falcon 1 rocket by a day to March 24, the company announced. The company performed a static fire test […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. announced March 22 that its Pegasus space launch vehicle launched three small scientific spacecraft for NASA‘s Space Technology 5 program (ST5). In a mission that took place […]

Eutelsat Communications announced March 21 that NTV-Plus, a Russian direct-to-home pay-TV platform, is boosting its capacity on Eutelsat’s W4 satellite from six to eight transponders. The new agreement for high-power […]

Panamsat announced March 20 that it signed a multi-year agreement with Strong Technologies Llc of Dubai for programming distribution on its PAS-10 Indian Ocean Region satellite. The multinational company will […]

Tandberg Television announced March 21 that it is providing the video compression systems to enable China’s first national high definition (HD) TV roll-out. The HD video delivery system is based […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. will make its second attempt to launch the Space Technology 5 (ST5) satellites for NASA March 22 after the first attempt was halted due to technical problems […]

Geoeye received an additional $13 million in orders from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) under the Clearview contract, the company announced. The latest orders are in addition to the […]

Worldspace Inc. cuts its net loss from $577.4 million in 2004 to $79.7 million in 2005, as total revenues jumped 36 percent to $11.7 million in 2005, the company reported. […]

Space Explorations Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) announced March 17 that Jim Maser will join the company as president and COO. Maser spent most of his career with Boeing, most recently serving […]

BT, which is launching IPTV services later this year, has announced it will call its service BT Vision. The service will combine Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) with on- demand film, […]

China will launch 18 observation satellites throughout the next ten years, made up of land resource, environmental, marine and meteorological spacecraft, the People’s Daily Online reported. The Sino-Brazil Earth resource […]

Loral Skynet, a subsidiary of Loral Space and Communications announced March 20 that it has resumed offering Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) to customers in North America. Pursuant to the terms […]

NDS won an Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) security solutions contract from SES Americom, as the operator takes the next step with its IP-Prime service, a new IPTV distribution solution in […]

Sirius Satellite Radio announced that March 20 it recently surpassed 4 million subscribers nationwide. Sirius delivers more than 125 channels of commercial-free music in satellite radio, with 67 music channels […]

Worldspace Satellite Radio, one of the global providers in satellite-based radio services, announced March 20 that it has launched Ranin and Min Zaman, two new commercial-free Arabic music channels that […]

It has been a busy year for the major satellite pay-TV operators across Europe. All seem to have been involved in major initiatives as they bid to keep the pressure […]

Satellite measurements of a steep difference in sea surface height between the western and eastern Pacific Ocean support predictions that a La Nina event that would impact global weather could […]

Thanks to more efficient encoding and compression, look to an ever expanding flow of rich media. The sheer amount of content in this category that is available is only going […]

When it comes to buying emergency satellite communications before disaster hits, governments have yet to fully embrace purchasing complete systems. "They don’t want to pay for it if they’re not […]

Alcatel Alenia Space has won a satellite contract from Ciel Satellite, a Canadian satellite services operator, the company announced March 16. Ciel Satellite has chosen Alcatel to build a new […]

Digitalglobe won a $12 million satellite imagery capacity contract modification by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) the company announced March 16. This Clearview contract enables the NGA to acquire additional […]

Sirius Satellite Radio and Audi of America Inc. announced March 17 that Audi will offer Sirius as its exclusive satellite radio provider for Audi vehicles sold in the United States, […]

Intelsat Ltd. announced March 17 that Jeffrey Freimark has been appointed as executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective on the resignation of Robert Medlin. Medlin has been serving […]

Multinational, multimedia sports entertainment company ESPN Inc, and global content management and delivery company Globecast have signed a deal for the delivery ESPN Classic, the ESPN’s first U.K.-dedicated sports channel, […]

SES Astra, an SES Global company and Arena, owner of live-TV rights for the German first soccer league (Bundesliga) announced March 16 that they have signed a satellite capacity agreement. […]