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EADS Astrium won a contract from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia-based Arabsat to provide a satellite control center for the Arabsat-4A and Arabsat-4B satellites. Terms of the deal, whose value has not […]

Satellite Today has learned that, sometime next year, Israel’s Tauvex II scientific camera will be launched from India aboard the GSAT-4 satellite. Any photos gleaned from the camera will be […]

EMS Satellite Networks, a division of EMS Technologies Inc. [ELMG], hired Penny Glover as managing director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Glover comes to EMS with more than […]

Monster Cable Products Inc. will team with Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI] to market and distribute Sirius-branded accessories for the home and mobile entertainment markets. Monster also will work with the […]

Intelsat signed a three-year deal with Radio e Televisao de Portugal (RTP), that country’s state broadcaster, to provide end-to-end international distribution of RTP content to Europe, Africa and Latin America. […]

In the latest blurring of the lines between local terrestrial broadcast radio and subscription-based satellite radio, XM Satellite Radio today launched XM Emergency Alert on XM channel 247. The station […]

Hands-on SES Americom President and CEO Dean Olmstead left the company this week, and a search is underway to find his replacement. His departure is not expected to curb the […]

Arianespace was tapped by The DirecTV Group [DTV] for the launch of the Spaceway 2 satellite in April 2005 aboard an Ariane 5, and for the launch of an unnamed […]

The European Satellite Operators Association appointed Aarti Holla-Maini as its new secretary general, managing and representing the association on a day-to-day basis. She most recently represented the joint-venture company Galileo […]

Raytheon Co. [RTN] received a $23.3 million addition to its U.S. Navy Multi-Band Terminal (NMT) contract originally awarded in October 2003. With the new extension, Raytheon now will propose an […]

Globecomm Systems Inc. [GCOM] reported a 61.5-percent increase in its year-end FY04 (ended June 30) revenues to $87.2 million from $54 million earned in the same period a year ago. […]

Satellite Today learned that scientists have begun the process of piecing together the wreckage of the Genesis space capsule that crashed into the salt flats of Utah yesterday in an […]

El Segundo, Calif.-based DirecTV Group‘s [DTV] has taken the mystery out of its plans for providing high-definition (HD) satellite-TV services by announcing it will use the Spaceway satellites, now under […]

Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI] named Michelle McKinnon senior director of investor relations. She will be responsible for communication of all investor-related matters, including managing relationships with buy- and sell-side analysts. […]

RT Logic, a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems Inc. [ISYS], received a contract from DigitalGlobe Inc. valued at more than $2.5 million to aid in DigitalGlobe’s efforts to upgrade […]

Spacehab [SPAB] reported a net income of $2.1 million for fiscal 2004 ended June 30, 2004, despite a drop in revenue when compared with financial released for FY03. Spacehab’s revenues […]

The FCC, in an order adopted late last week and released yesterday, authorized Iridium Constellation LLC, Iridium Satellite LLC and Iridium Carrier Services (collectively called Iridium) to use an additional […]

Satlynx S.A., a joint venture of SES Global, Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. and Alcatel Space, signed an agreement to provide its two-way satellite broadband service to the customers of France […]

According to paperwork submitted to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), EchoStar Satellite LLC, a subsidiary of EchoStar Communications Corp. [DISH], wants to construct, launch and operate a geostationary satellite at […]

Washington, D.C.-based XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] will air Big Ten Conference football along with men’s and women’s basketball games. The move follows an announcement last week by rival Sirius Satellite […]

Germantown, Md.-based Hughes Network Systems and GTSI [DTSI], inked a deal to provide satellite broadband services to government users. Using the DirecWay service provided by HNS, GTSI would be able […]

London-based BT Broadcast Services, the broadcast and media-solutions arm of BT, announced an agreement to promote use of the SES Astra satellite service operating at 19.2 degrees E to independent […]

Betzdorf, Luxemburg-based SES Astra‘s TechCom unit agreed to partner with Integral Systems Inc. [ISYS] and Enertec, a company of the French LP2C group, to market and provide satellite control stations […]

New York City-based Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI], one of two U.S.-based satellite radio services, passed the 600,000-subscriber mark this past Labor Day Weekend, and it remains on target to achieve […]

Pegasus Communications Corp. [PGTVE] said that, starting today, the company’s ticker symbol will be followed by an “E,” indicating the company has failed to comply with one of the Nasdaq‘s […]

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) was selected by the Canadian Space Agency to develop concepts for a follow-on to the Radarsat-2 program. The Radarsat program is designed to provide […]

Ottawa-based Telesat Canada was formed Sept. 1, 1969, as the first operator of a satellite launched to serve a single country. Today, it is blazing the trail to offer high-speed […]

SES Global company SES Astra is continuing its push into Africa with a new agreement with Worldsat, another SES Global company. Worldsat is providing SES Astra with the capacity for […]

The World Communications Center (WCC) today said it is supplying “hundreds” of its satellite phones that communicate through the Iridium constellation to Florida utilities, county governments, large retail corporations, insurance […]

EchoStar Communications Corp. [DISH] said its EchoStar DBS Corp. subsidiary elected to retire all its outstanding 10 3/8-percent Senior Notes due 2007 early. The $1 billion principal amount of the […]