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[10-03-07 – Satellite Today]  Advent Communications has signed two new agreements with Chinese broadcast companies, Advent announced Oct. 2. Advent signed an agency agreement with Beijing Century Sage Scientific System...

[10-03-07 – Satellite Today]  SpaceDev received a contract from U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract for work on the High Delta-V satellite program, the company announced Oct. 2....

[10-03-07 – Satellite Today]  Stratos Global Corp. is making Inmarsat’s Satellite Phone Services available commercially, the company announced Oct. 1. The new services, available in mobile, fixed-land and fixed-maritime packages,...

[10-03-07 – Satellite Today]  Spacenet Inc. is working with Verizon Business to deploy a satellite network for the U.S. Postal Service, Spacenet parent Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. announced Oct. 1....

[10-03-07 – Satellite Today]  Orbital Sciences Corp. has been selected by the California Institute of Technology and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to design, manufacture, integrate and test the Nuclear...

[10-03-07 – Satellite Today]  BSkyB may have to sell its stake in leading U.K public broadcaster ITV, after U.K. Competition Commission said the deal "restricts competition.” BSkyB acquired a nearly...

[10-03-07 – Satellite Today]  Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) has signed a capacity exchange deal with Vietnam Telecom International, the companies announced Oct. 2. Under the memorandum of agreement, the two...

[10-02-07 – Satellite Today]  Newtec has appointed Jean-Robert Barallon vice president of sales, the company announced Oct. 1. Barallon has more than 30 years in the global satellite communications and...

[10-02-07 – Satellite Today] The BSat-3A broadcasting satellite is operational following on-orbit deployment and checkout,     Lockheed Martin announced Oct. 1. The spacecraft, owned by Japan’s Broadcasting Satellite System Corp. (B-Sat),...

Thales Alenia Space, one of the major players in the satellite manufacturing arena, has been boosted recently by winning a huge satellite contract in the Middle East. Al Yah Satellite...