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Houston-based CapRock Communications and Carlsbad, Calif.-based ViaSat [VSAT] combined their respective marketplace and technical strengths to form a global VSAT (very small aperture terminal) alliance to serve the oil and […]

By Paul Dykewicz, PBI Media LLC The inimitable Aretha Franklin used her booming and soulful voice to turn the song “Respect” into a huge hit. Respect is exactly what satellite […]

NEW YORK–The top executives at Washington, D.C.-based XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] and Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI] verbally sparred with each other last week about which company is pursuing the best […]

San Jose, Calif.-based Globalstar’s emergence from Chapter 11 protection last week offers new promise for the once debt-laden company to unlock the full value of its satellite- phone technology to […]

International Launch Services (ILS) officials said today the company secured contracts from SES Americon and SES Astra to launch three satellites in 2005 and 2006. Financial terms of the contracts […]

Digital+, the leading satellite pay-TV operator in Spain, ended the first quarter of 2004 with 1,732,000 subscribers. Sogecable (the owners of the Digital+ platform) launched the Digital+ service in July […]

El Segundo, Calif.-based DirecTV, a unit of The DirecTV Group [DTV], received welcome news last week when a federal jury awarded the satellite TV services provider $51.5 million in damages […]

Russian Satellite Communications Co. said its communications and broadcasting Express-AM11 satellite will be launched into geostationary orbit at 96.5 degrees East on April 27. The bird will be delivered into […]

Officials from Mercedes-Benz USA and Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI] said today the satellite radio service will be available in most Mercedes- Benz models starting this year and moving forward as […]

Eutelsat, the U.S. subsidiary of satellite operator Eutelsat S.A., inked a deal between its parent company and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to deliver occasional-use capacity on three Eutelsat satellites […]

PanAmSat [SPOT] launched PASport, a global on-the-spot broadcasting service for the transmission of live breaking news. This new service gives broadcasters and video-content producers access to PanAmSat’s global hybrid network […]

GlobeXplorer, a subsidiary of Stewart Information Services [STC], a Walnut Creek, Calif.-based geographic data and publishing company that provides satellite images via the Internet, is using Dell [DELL] server technology […]

The Superbird-6 satellite lifted into orbit last night after a successful launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on an Atlas IIAS rocket provided by International Launch Services (ILS). Liftoff of the […]

Intuicom, a Boulder, Colo.-based wireless data company, yesterday released the Military II navigator data link with embedded Global Positioning System (GPS) capabilities for military and homeland- security applications. The Military […]

CopyTele, [COPY], a Melville, N.Y.-based manufacturer of encryption based products, agreed to provide its technology for use with the Boeing-built [BA] Thuraya satellite communications network. Financial terms were not disclosed. […]

EchoStar Communications [DISH], an Englewood, Colo.-based provider of U.S. satellite TV, added local channels to El Paso, Texas, and to the Las Cruces, N.M., area as well as to the […]

British Columbia based-MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates [MDA] was awarded a contract for a RADARSAT-2 ground station for the Instituto Geografico de Venezuela Simon Bolivar (IGVSB). The ground station will provide […]

SkyPort International officials said the company successfully conducted a product demonstration to the Harris County Department of Education Center for Safe and Secure Schools in Texas. The demo of a […]

Globalstar LLC, a handheld satellite phone service that operates in all of the most populated regions of the world, today announced the completion of its financial restructuring following the formal […]

OpenTV [OPTV] CEO James Ackerman believes a new era of interactive television could be just around the corner in the United States, and his company could play a key role […]

The Federal Communications Commission today unanimously approved a recommendation by the commission staff to proceed with the development of a proposed rule that would allow unlicensed wireless broadband devices to […]

Loral Skynet officials said today the company successfully completed service trials with several customers on SkyReach, its IP-enabled product that provides two-way broadband services for secure private networks or for […]

DirecTV [DTV] has agreed to settle a lawsuit it filed last fall against PaySystems and a number of defendants who DirecTV claimed were processing payments for merchants selling goods marketed […]

Space Imaging, a Denver, Colo.-based provider of Earth imagery via satellite, appointed Mark A. Kling vice president, general counsel and secretary. Kling brings more than 20 years of legal experience […]

The top executives at Washington, D.C.-based XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] and Satellite Radio [SIRI] verbally sparred with each other about which company is pursuing the best growth strategies. The two […]

C-Com Satellite Systems Inc. [CMI] officials said today the company delivered its first iNetVu mobile two-way high-speed Internet over a satellite antenna system to Mexican satellite operator Satmex. Satmex will […]

Tachyon Networks Inc.’s new “Auto Deploy” customer premise equipment will allow enterprise and government users to deploy a high-speed, carrier-grade satellite broadband network in “minutes,” the company said. Auto Deploy […]

Helius officials said the company’s OneTouch Classroom Site Controller in the Helius MediaGate Router platform has gone commercial. By integrating the Site Controller, Helius is able to offer a platform […]

Dauphin [DNTK] signed a stock-swap agreement with EDC Hellas, a subsidiary of Belgium-based European Datcomm Holding that manufactures telematics and satellite communication products. According to the agreement, Dauphin will acquire […]

Radcom [RDCM], an Israel-based manufacturer of support network services, announced the availability of a new testing system to monitor and to troubleshoot LAN, WAN, ATM and other communications capabilities. The […]