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John Scelfo, Sirius Satellite Radio’s chief financial officer, is leaving the U.S.-based satellite radio provider April 6 to join a company outside the satellite industry. Scelfo played a key role […]

Dutch satellite communications company New Skies Satellites has named Jurandir M. Pitsch as sales director for its commercial activities in Brazil and the Mercosur region of Latin America. Pitsch will […]

Malaysia’s Binariang Satellite Systems and Boeing Satellite Systems, a unit of Boeing, have signed a contract for the procurement of a high-power communications satellite. The new Boeing 601HP satellite, designated […]

French satellite operator Eutelsat estimates that its new multimedia satellite platform in Turin, Italy, will generate 10 million euros ($10.63 million) in revenue over the next two years. The platform, […]

International Launch Services (ILS) is turning up the heat on launch service powerhouse Arianespace this year. The provider, which usually secures around 40 to 50 per cent of satellite launch […]

For MTV Networks Europe, the French market could be a key barometer of its success in 2003. The channel provider, one of the largest in Europe, increased advertising revenues by […]

A = Analogue D = Digital 78.5 degreesE: Thaicom 2&3 D Yes TV has returned to 3475 MHz vertical, SR 3298, FEC 3/4, VPID 4132, APID 4133 in free-to-air MPEG-2 […]

April 29 12:00 – 1:30 PM EST “From Broadcast to Broadband: Seizing The Next Satellite Business Opportunity?” A Webinar presented by Interspace Register at http://www.telecomweb.com/satellite/webinar.htm

PanAmSat [Nasdaq: SPOT] has received regulatory approval to operate its PAS 9 satellite in Brazil from Anatel, the government agency that regulates all telecom services in Brazil. The regulatory clearance […]

An online survey of XM Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: XMSR] subscribers conducted March 21-24 found that the war in Iraq has caused a 52 percent jump in subscribers tuning to news […]

The Canadian Space Agency is preparing to launch its SciSat satellite this summer from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. In preparation, CSA is holding a technical briefing for media on […]

Analytical Graphics has signed up Satellite Engineering Research (SERC) as a business partner for its Satellite Tool Kit (STK). SERC President Robert A. Nelson said he uses STK in his […]

Thales Navigation has received online PDA industry publication Planet PDA‘s 2002 Product of the Year Award for its Magellan GPS companion for Palm m500 series handhelds. The GPS companion was […]

SATELLITE TODAY invites you and your team to join us on Tuesday, April 29, from noon-1:30 PM EST for an exclusive Webinar: “From Broadcast To Broadband: Seizing the Next Satellite […]

International Launch Services (ILS) President Mark Albrecht told SATELLITE TODAY that the launch provider has high hopes for gaining an increasing share of orders in the U.S. government arena. “We […]

iSECUREtrac [OTC Bulletin Board: ISRE], a provider of Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking products, has hired William R. Faresich as vice president of marketing and business development. He will be […]

SkyWaves Research Report estimates that XM Satellite Radio’s [Nasdaq: XMSR] total number of subscribers will reach between 490,000 to 500,000 by the end of the first quarter and 1.24 million […]

Discovery Communications has signed a multi-transponder agreement with SES Americom, a unit of SES Global, to lease C-band capacity on AMC-10 and AMC-11, the company’s successor satellites to Satcom C-3 […]

SkyFrames [OTC Bulletin Board: BEYI], a provider of satellite broadband Internet services, has joined forces with Advantage Associates, a firm that specializes in assisting clients in governmental, political and international […]

STMicroelectronics [NYSE: STM], supplier of set-top box (STB) chips and MPEG-2 decoders, has introduced a new Omega STB decoder product – the STi5517. Suitable for use in cable, terrestrial and […]

In the March 24 issue of SATELLITE TODAY, we incorrectly identified the MEASAT-3 as an Indonesian satellite. In fact, it is a Malaysian satellite. MEASAT stands for Malaysia- East Asia […]

Week of March 14 – 20, 2003 Percentage Change Symbol March 20 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.41 0.7 (10.8) […]

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has purchased Integral’s [ISYS] SKYLIGHT ground terminal system for receiving and processing satellite Earth science data. The system includes a receiver and data processing, […]

El Segundo, Calif.-based Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), founded by Internet entrepreneur Elon Musk, has successfully test fired the company’s Falcon rocket main engine. “Satellites and spacecraft urgently need a more […]

EMS Technologies [ELMG] has signed an agreement that makes Stratos a principal reseller to the trucking industry of EMS’ suite of satellite communications terminals. With the partnership, Stratos can offer […]

The U. S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] a patent for a ceramic rocket nozzle throat for solid rocket motors. The new ceramic material promises […]

Mars Express, the European Space Agency’s first spacecraft developed for a mission to the planet Mars, has completed its tests at Toulouse, France. After six months of extensive thermal environmental, […]

Sea Launch said March 20 that it is ready to resume satellite launches following completion of the Sea Launch Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB) investigation into the failure of the […]

Gilat Satellite Networks [GILTF] has deployed a fixed rural satellite telephony network for Empresa Nicaraguense de Telecomunicaciones (Enitel) to serve 170 communities throughout Nicaragua. The new network, based on Gilat’s […]

Responding to complaints of favoritism in the Department of Defense’s (DoD) commercial satellite service procurement process, Intelsat told the General Accounting Office that a contract it received to provide satellite […]