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New Skies Satellites [NSK] has signed a multi-year, multi-transponder deal with Indian telecom company Reliance Infocomm, enabling Reliance to offer international long-distance telephone services to the United States. The bundled […]

The government of Norway has agreed to purchase $15 million Canadian (US$9.8 million) worth of RADARSAT-2 data. Under the agreement, the first of its kind with Europe, Norway has committed […]

Washington D.C.-based XM Satellite Radio Inc. [XMSR] took a big step toward gaining the financial breathing room it needed this week by closing on its previously announced $475 million funding […]

Paris-based Eutelsat S.A. is a profitable global satellite operator that appears unlikely to be sold anytime soon, despite unsolicited buyout offers it has received from its two biggest U.S. rivals. […]

By Stephen A. Blum The U.S. DBS industry is at a crossroads, at least in terms of trend analysis. Recent results in general, and DirecTV’s 2003 guidance in particular, point […]

Ottawa-based C-Com Satellite Systems Inc. [CMI] is partnering with the Minnesota State Patrol to keep the U.S.-Canada border secure. C-Com recently delivered a number of its iNetVu Mobile satellite-based antenna […]

Mobile satellite operators will enjoy expanded opportunities to develop viable businesses and to meet consumer needs following a landmark decision by the Federal Communications Commission last week allowing mobile satellite […]

Joseph Wright, the president and CEO of Wilton, Conn.-based satellite operator PanAmSat Corp. [SPOT], has laid out a growth strategy for his company that entails entering the broadband market later […]

EchoStar Communications [Nasdaq: DISH] confirmed its subsidiary, EchoStar DBS, completed a previously announced repurchase of all of its 9.25 percent senior notes due 2006. The redemption occurred three years early […]

Intelsat has introduced occasional video solutions (OVS), a service that offers a one stop shop for the video needs of news, sports and special event content providers. A dedicated video […]

The U.S. Air Force has launched a Delta II rocket, built by Boeing [NYSE: BA], with a Global Positioning System IIR-8 satellite and an XSS-10 demonstration satellite payload. The rocket […]

Zanett [Nasdaq: ZANE] has acquired Paragon Dynamics, a firm that provides software and satellite engineering services with domain area expertise on government and aerospace satellite and IT infrastructure contracts. According […]

Optimus, a provider of public safety technology, has been awarded a Federal Highway Administration research grant to develop a pedestrian alert system (PAS) using Global Positioning System technology. An Infiniti […]

Korea’s Samsung Electronics has selected Conexant Systems [Nasdaq: CNXT] to provide digital satellite set-top box (STB) semiconductors deployment in Korea digital satellite broadcasting’s (KDB) SkyLife satellite television network. The STB […]

by Peter J. Brown The satellite industry is looking for new opportunities while trying to keep up with the demand for more services. A steady proliferation of robust fixed, portable […]

by Chris Mecray Two of the major U.S. satellite launch providers, Boeing and Lockheed Martin, have just completed $1.5 billion in investments in upgraded launch vehicles (not including government development […]

by Peter J. Brown The satellite industry is looking for new opportunities while trying to keep up with the demand for more services. A steady proliferation of robust fixed, portable […]

By James Careless Tough slogging: that is the outlook for the satellite Internet market. Whether it is selling direct Internet access to consumers or providing backbone links for ISPs, there […]

To be successful, a satellite service must be competitive with a terrestrial alternative if one is available. The level of service must equal or exceed the terrestrial service at a […]

Look for the silver lining. In any review of 2002, it is sound advice. While on the face of it, the year just past may not have offered much for […]

by Douglas Graham Have satellite-based distribution networks and broadband been over-hyped? This is the view of some industry insiders and analysts who claim satellite’s real future may reside in a […]

by Gerry Oberst Will they or won’t they? Toward the end of December last year, one major satellite operator announced it was cutting back on an existing Internet satellite service […]

Mobile satellite operators should benefit from a Federal Communications Commission decision to let them add wireless capabilities as ancillary terrestrial component (ATC) services. High-profile business failures by mobile satellite services […]

New Valley Corp. [Nasdaq: NVAL], a company that offered to provide bankrupt Globalstar with $55 million in debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing to gain majority control, failed in its bid to proceed […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. [NYSE: ORB] has been awarded a major contract by the U.S. Air Force to provide space launch and missile defense target vehicles using deactivated Peacekeeper ICBM assets […]

Artemis has finally reached geostationary orbit, some 36,000 kilometers above the Earth, at 21.5 degreesE, the European Space Agency announced Friday. The satellite was orginally launched July 12, 2001, into […]

Washington-based XM Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: XMSR], which has been the target of protesters seeking expanded minority-oriented programming, is preparing to offer 350 hours of minority-oriented programming across 19 channels in […]

Televigation, a provider of wireless motion-based technology and services, has debuted its TeleNav service, which gives owners of certain Java (J2ME) mobile phones the ability to navigate turn-by-turn to virtually […]

An oversight board convened by International Launch Services (ILS) to investigate the Nov. 26 launch failure of a Proton/Block DM rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan has completed its initial […]

Washington D.C.-based XM Satellite Radio Inc. [Nasdaq: XMSR] took a big step toward gaining the financial breathing room it needed this week by closing on its previously announced $475 million […]