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Former head of pay-per-view events at BSkyB, Marc Conneely, will join Gulf DTH as vice president, advertising sales and new business development. Gulf DTH owns and operates the Showtime network […]

The International Telecommunication Union‘s World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) is wrapping up its month of spectrum allocation work on Friday with some key agreements affecting satellite services, members of the U.S. […]

Satlynx, a European satellite broadband venture, said that its founding chief executive officer, Yves Elsen, will resign effective Aug. 31 “to pursue career opportunities in a new field.” The company’s […]

Globecomm Systems [Nasdaq: GCOM], a Hauppauge, N.Y.-based supplier of satellite communications products and services, has received an $8.3 million contract to supply fixed and mobile earth station terminals for satellite […]

Inforetech Wireless Technology [BB: WYRE], a Vancouver, Canada-based supplier of GPS technology for the golf industry, has reached an agreement to retire $1.25 million in convertible debt obligations to Augustine […]

XATA [Nasdaq: XATA], a Minneapolis, Minn.-based provider of fleet management products for the commercial trucking industry, has been awarded orders totaling $1.8 million by an undisclosed company in the grocery […]

Dyband, an Ottawa, Canada-based supplier of IP traffic management products to service providers, governments and enterprises, Thursday announced delivery of a multi-site IP traffic management solution to the government of […]

Orbit International’s [Nasdaq: ORBT] Behlman Electronics unit has received orders from the U.S. military to provide power supply components for a U.S. Army mobile satellite communications system and for Global […]

Because of the July 4th holiday in the United States, we will not publish SATELLITE TODAY tomorrow (Friday). Look for us again on Monday, July 7. Have a great holiday! […]

SES Astra has had a busy month. It has concluded a deal with the BBC for two additional transponders on the ASTRA 2D satellite at 28.2 degrees East and has […]

Continuing economic uncertainty has dampened demand for broadband satellite services in the Asia-Pacific region. Since 1997, the Asia-Pacific region has experienced downturns and recoveries in short cycles that have hampered […]

The International Telecommunication Union’s World Radiocommunication Conference is heading down the home stretch as it prepares to wrap up a month’s worth of work at the end of this week. […]

By Maury Mechanick On May 19, the satellite industry’s wait ended, with the issuance (26 days after having been announced) of the Federal Communications Commission’s order revamping its satellite licensing […]

Canal+ Technologies deal to provide middleware to U.S. satellite pay-TV operator DirecTV places further pressure on its U.S. competitors OpenTV and Liberate Technologies. The deal, which was announced in mid-June, […]

The European Space Agency and European Union member states are proposing to double spending on space-related activities, from a current level of 6 billion euros (US$6.9 billion) to 12 billion […]

New York-based Loral Space & Communications [NYSE: LOR] and Paris-based Alcatel [NYSE: ALA] announced this week that they had reached a settlement resolving all outstanding issues between them, including a […]

Thales Group has signed an agreement with Galileo Industries, the consortium set up to build, deploy and operate the European Galileo satellite navigation system, under which Thales will become the […]

Washington, D.C.-based Intelsat has appointed Doug Triblehorn and Jean-Philippe Gillet to head regional sales efforts for its Media and Entertainment Business Unit in Asia and Europe, respectively. Triblehorn is responsible […]

Arianespace is trying to get back on track after a turbulent few months. The high profile launch failure in December of the Ariane 5 10-ton rocket with Eutelsat’s HOT BIRD […]

93.5 degreesE: Insat 3A D A new multiplex was tested on 4025 MHz vertical, SR 27500, FEC 3/4 last week. It contained B4U Music, Nickelodeon India, BBC World India, Zee […]

Arianespace, the France-based launch service provider, hopes to secure additional contracts outside its core markets of Europe, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region. In April this year, Arianespace inked a deal […]

Dulles, Va.-based Orbital Sciences [NYSE: ORB] has taken another step toward refinancing its debt in a move similar to what many U.S. homeowners are doing to take advantage of falling […]

Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) and Connexion by Boeing, a business unit of Boeing [NYSE: BA], have signed a definitive service agreement for equipping the European air carrier’s long-haul aircraft with […]

RT Logic, a Colorado Springs, Colo.-based subsidiary of Integral Systems [Nasdaq: ISYS], announced that EADS Astrium has awarded the company a contract to supply satellite baseband systems, S-Band modem systems, […]

FiberSat Global Services has commenced the operation of the new satellite-fed channel called S|Networks. FiberSat Global Services is operating under an agreement to originate the S|Net video programming, as well […]

Israel-based Gilat Satellite Networks [Nasdaq: GILTF] has put in place a financial restructuring program aimed at increasing efficiency and cutting corporate expenses. The program includes a variety of measures, including […]

In a late-afternoon plenary session Wednesday at the World Radiocommunication Conference, delegates gave final approval to an allocation of 455 megahertz of spectrum in the 5 gigahertz spectrum band for […]

Direct-to-home provider GlobeCast and Intelsat jointly announced that Malayalam-language television channel Asianet USA has joined the GlobeCast DTH platform using the Telstar 5 satellite. GlobeCast’s platform on Telstar 5 is […]

Prof•it (prof’-it) n. The advantageous gain received on business when strategic technological investments are made.—Webster’s New College Dictionary Increasing return on investments, maintaining a cutting-edge communication infrastructure and keeping your […]

When one thinks of Club Med’s Columbus Isle Resort in the Bahamas, the words “satellite lifesaver” do not spring to mind. But they should. Satellite communication is the data lifeline […]