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Tachyon Networks Inc. said it appointed Peter Carides as its president and CEO. “The hiring of Peter Carides is the latest and most significant step in positioning Tachyon for strategic […]

The Associated Press reported Feb. 8 that Japan’s space agency has begun the countdown to the latest launch of that nation’s H2-A rocket, which will carry a multipurpose weather and […]

EADS Astrium said it has completed the production and test of the first Inmarsat-4 satellite. The satellite is based on EADS Astrium’s Eurostar E3000 satellite platform. The satellite is part […]

Foxtel Digital‘s executive director of content, development and delivery, Patrick Delany, is confident that the operator will see strong growth in 2005. The satellite and cable pay-TV operator, which launched […]

Viasat Broadcasting, a satellite pay-TV operator in the Nordic region, is boosting its content offering thanks to an agreement with one of Sweden’s key broadcasters. It has signed a three-year […]

QuetzSat SRL de CV said it has received a concession for the Ku-band broadcast satellite services frequencies at 77 degrees West from the Mexican government. QuetzSat is a Mexican partnership […]

NewspaperDirect said it would be delivering same-day newspapers to ships in Radisson Seven Seas Cruises fleet through its partnership with Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN). Cruise ship passengers will be able […]

Arinc Inc. and Telenor said that they have signed a technology contract with Altobridge Ltd. to provide the link between Inmarsat satellites and GSM phones onboard planes, enabling GSM phone […]

The DirecTV Group Inc. said it has named Evan Grayer to be the vice president of broadband. Grayer will be responsible for evaluating broadband options for DirecTV and executing the […]

Mobile Satellite Ventures last week announced that it is offering a new handset and new rate plans to respond to the needs of a growing public safety/emergency response market. The […]

Spectrum Signal Processing Inc. launched its flexComm SDR-2000 SRDP, a satellite communications rapid-prototyping and development platform. According to the company, this commercial off-the-shelf software defined radio platform is designed for […]

XM Satellite Radio signed an agreement with Nissan North America Inc. to supply the auto manufacturer with satellite-delivered data and telematics services, such as in-vehicle messaging and XM NavTraffic. Nissan […]

According to new research released by Autobytel Inc.‘s Automotive Information Center, the number of vehicles offering satellite radio as an option has more than tripled throughout the past three years. […]

EchoStar Communications Corp. said Jan. 31 that its Dish Network direct-to-home satellite television service has passed the 11 million-subscriber milestone. The company passed the 10 million-subscriber mark in June 2004. […]

PolarSat said that is has shipped 15.8 tons of VSAT equipment to the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China. The shipment is the first delivery on a contract that, […]

PrediWave Corp. said that PiTV selected its interactive broadcast TV platform for PiTV’s satellite television service. PiTV will leverage PrediWave’s technologies to deploy services such as digital video recording, video-on-demand […]

NDS Group, a supplier of Conditional Access (CA) and interactive technologies to direct-to-home platforms, has seen a significant increase in revenues in the second quarter ended Dec. 31, almost doubling […]

The Russian Satellite Communications Co. said its Express-AM1 satellite went into operation at 40 degrees East on Feb. 1. The satellite was launched last October and is designed for federal […]

Rainbow Media Holdings LLC, the programming subsidiary for Cablevision Systems Corp., said it recently secured a number of key distribution agreements with both EchoStar Communications Corp. and The DirecTV Group […]

Comsat International Inc. said its Comsat Brazil subsidiary won a public auction to build, operate and mange the communications network for the national lottery and transaction clearinghouse network in Brazil. […]

Stratos Global Corp. said it is doubling the high-speed data capabilities of its Inmarsat Fleet F77 maritime communications service up to 128 kilobits per second. Stratos said that with the […]

UK satellite pay-TV operator BSkyB added almost 200,000 subscribers in the second quarter ended Dec. 31, 2004. This was one of the highlights as the operator announced its six month […]

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. reported an increase in revenues for 2004, but the revenues boost came coupled with a reported net loss for the year. For the year ended Dec. […]

International Launch Services (ILS) oversaw the launch of two rockets on Feb. 3, originating on both sides of the Atlantic. A Proton/Breeze M rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome […]

Foxtel Digital, the Australian cable and satellite pay-TV operator, has been a success story for digital television services in Asia. It is one of the fastest growing digital pay-TV operators […]

While interactive television is fairly common in the European television markets, it hasn’t yet caught on in a significant way in the United States, but EchoStar Communications Corp. is hoping […]

With the growing demand for portable VSAT terminals particularly from military users, the need for more portable power amplifiers is becoming an important criterion in terminal design. “One of the […]

With the final bids in from the two consortia competing for the contract to deploy and operate Galileo, Europe’s satellite navigation system that will work in tandem with the U.S. […]

While many industry observers did not feel the Zeus Holdings Ltd. purchase of Intelsat was in any danger of falling through following the recent satellite failures Intelsat experienced, most would […]

As Satellite News was going to press, news came over the wire services that the U.S. military began a five-day war game to see how space-based assets such as satellite […]