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The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) formally introduced itself today at a press conference in Washington, D.C. The new group, consisting initially of 28 companies that span the IT […]

Industry Canada, that country’s regulatory body, awarded a provisional license Monday to fledgling Ottawa-based satellite operator Ciel Satellite Communications Inc. The provisional license allows Ciel to proceed with its plans […]

By Paul Dykewicz PanAmSat President and CEO Joseph Wright, noted for his financial conservatism and cost-cutting, recently told me he isn’t worried at all about taking on a large debt […]

Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI], the higher priced of two U.S.-based satellite radio services, took the unusual step of issuing a press release last week to put a positive spin on […]

New York City-based AirTV’s search for funding did not stop the startup from signing a launch services agreement with Arianespace last week, with the first launch scheduled for 2007. The […]

By Adam D. Thierer Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has introduced an important new bill dealing with the digital television (DTV) transition that will have direct impact on the satellite industry. […]

With close to 30 million households now subscribing to some form of digital television (DTV), France is the only major European market to support two satellite pay-TV operators, Canal Satellite […]

Nordic Satellite (NSAB) is holding back on a decision about ordering its proposed SIRIUS 4 satellite, amid slow demand for capacity, and the carrier will capitalize on existing hardware for […]

The bold move by PanAmSat Founder Rene Anselmo to risk tens of millions of dollars of his own money to buy a satellite and then to launch it, uninsured, on […]

NavCom Technology, a unit of Deere & Company [DE], is targeting the agricultural industry by pushing Global Positioning System (GPS) services into the untraditional role of helping farmers plow their […]

Herndon, Va.-based iDirect wants to capitalize on a new threesome forged with satellite services operator Intelsat and communications networking provider Equant by tapping into what its management considers to be […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] is pursuing U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) communications networking business opportunities that depend on satellites. Last week, Boeing showed it was willing to invest in innovative […]

Satellite TV’s advantage of offering digital video signals since the mid-1990s is waning because the $70 billion the big cable-TV operators have spent on the technology is allowing those carriers […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Raytheon [RTN] were pacing the floor late Friday afternoon, waiting to hear which one would win a $6.2 billion U.S. Department of Defense satellite-communications contract (SN, […]

EADS Space signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Italian organization Vitrociset for the study of future initiatives and collaborations in the aerospace sector. Areas where the two organizations will […]

China launched its 20th recoverable satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center aboard a Long March 2-D rocket. The satellite will be used for research, geological surveying and mapping, and […]

Following the discovery of glitch in the Thaicom 3 satellite that could result in that bird’s failure, Satellite Today discovered that Shin Satellite PLC is pushing plans to launch its […]

Eutelsat shareholders approved a plan to restructure its corporate governance by replacing a 15-member supervisory board/four-member management board with a single 10-member board of directors. Giuliano Berretta was elected chairman […]

Satellite Today has learned that an insurance company in California is using satellite imagery to determine whether to renew coverage to certain clients in high-fire-risk areas who may need to […]

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company of Sunnyvale, Calif., won a $2.1 billion cost-plus-incentive-fee contract from the U.S. Navy for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), a next-generation narrowband military satellite […]

ATK [ATK] completed its acquisition of the PSI Group following a review of the transaction by the Federal Trade Commission. PSI is a components designer and manufacturer for military and […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] has made some aggressive moves in targeting work from the U.S. Department of Defense, demonstrating a new mobile theater-of-operations directional communications technology that can give soldiers […]

CapRock Communications is the primary corporate sponsor of a project headed by a team of students at the University of Louisiana that is preparing to send a picosatellite (a small […]

Modern Times Group, (MTG), the owner of the Viasat direct-to-home (DTH) platform, is claiming a key victory over its Nordic DTH rival Canal Digital. It just announced that its application […]

Satellite Today has learned that the European Space Agency‘s European Space Research and Technology Center is testing the design-worthiness of an experimental Galileo satellite built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. […]

Integral Systems Inc. [ISYS] inked a contract with SingTel Optus to expand the Optus C1 satellite control system to include support for the Optus D1 and D2 satellites. Under the […]

The San Diego Telecom Council named ViaSat one of the winners in its first annual “Innovators In Telecommunications” awards. ViaSat won for its launch of the first DOCSIS-based, satellite-IP-delivery system. […]

Vienna, Va.-based Tachyon Networks, a satellite broadband communications service provider for business and government users, is upgrading its network to deliver 512 kilobits per second (Kbps) remote transmission speeds to […]

Satellite Today has learned that Russia is expected to, within a month, send a proposal to South Korea that calls for a technology transfer to South Korea that would allow […]

SKY Television of New Zealand signed a five-year deal with New Zealand Cricket that gives it exclusive rights to all international and domestic cricket games until 2009. John Fellet, SKY […]