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Spacenet Inc. has introduced its Connexstar Digital Phone, a carrier class telephone solution available as part of the company’s Connexstar satellite service, Spacenet announced July 9. The service enables customers...

The launch of NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has been rescheduled to September, NASA announced July 7. The primary reasons for the delay are a combination of limited launch opportunities in July...

E’Prime Aerospace Corp. and Space Propulsion Systems Inc. have signed a strategic alliance agreement for Space Propulsion to share its patented concept for the design and manufacturing of advanced performance...

TeleCommunication Systems Inc. (TCS) has received a $2.6 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide satellite parts and services for Defense Satellite Communication System (DSCS) terminals and the DSCS...

International Launch Services (ILS) launched the DirecTV-10 satellite July 7 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, ILS announced. A Proton Breeze M rocket placed the satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit for...

Irdeto, a provider of conditional access services to direct-to-home operators, has acquired IDWay, Irdeto announced July 6. The companies began working together in 2006, and the acquisition of IDWay, which...

Orbcomm Inc. added 28,000 net billable subscribers in the 2007 second quarter, the company announced July 5. The additions give Orbcomm a total subscriber base of more than 278,000 at...

The European scientific community has submitted proposals for 50 new scientific missions following a call for proposals issued in March by the European Space Agency (ESA), the agency announced July...

In a major blow to its pay-TV aspirations, Sogecable, which operates the Digital+ direct-to-home satellite platform, has lost the blue-chip Spanish soccer rights in Spain to Mediapro, a Spanish audiovisual...

The scheduled July 7 launch of NASA’s Dawn spacecraft aboard a Delta 2 rocket has been postponed until July 9 at the earliest, NASA announced. Dawn, the first planetary spacecraft...