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Irdeto Acquires IDWay 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...

The scheduled July 7 launch of NASA’s Dawn spacecraft aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta 2 rocket has been postponed until July 9 at the earliest, NASA announced July...

All systems are go for German pay-TV operator Premiere and its new Premiere Star subsidiary as the companies plan the September launch of the latter’s eponymous direct-to-home (DTH) offering. Premiere...

Radyne Corp. plans to acquire AeroAstro Inc., Radyne announced July 5. Radyne will pay about $17.3 million in cash and $750,000 in stock as well as assume $500,000 in debt...

ChinaSatcom’s Chinasat 6B telecommunication satellite was boosted into orbit July 5 by a Long March 3B rocket, satellite prime contractor Thales Alenia Space announced. Based on the Spacebus 4000 C2...

Arabsat will provide capacity on its Badr-4 satellite to Talia, a provider of Internet and voice services, Arabsat announced. Talia will use the transponder focused over the Middle East and...

Guardian Mobility Corp. has launched the Tracer 3 product family of satellite modems designed to communicate via Globalstar’s simplex data network, Globalstar Inc. announced July 5. The modems are capable...

Elta has released its R3G universal repeater, which will receive and retransmit signals from the GPS, Glonass and Galileo satellite navigation systems, as well as allow the signals to be...

Alcatel-Lucent will provide network integration services as well as equipment, engineering and implementation services for a trial of mobile interactive media services that ICO Global Communications Ltd. plans to begin...

Mobile Satellite Ventures passed a critical design review milestone for its MSV-1 satellite that had been set by the International Bureau of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the company...