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Sirius Satellite Radio has obtained a $250 million senior secured term loan commitment from Morgan Stanley Senior Funding Inc., Sirius announced June 5. The facility will mature in five and...

Gateway Broadcast Services, a subsidiary of Gateway Telecommunications, has raised an additional $40 million as it looks to make GTV – its new pan-Africa, direct-to-home (DTH), pay-TV service – a...

Chellomedia, the European-based content division of Liberty Global, is launching a range of interactive advertising solutions for television platforms, including satellite, in the United Kingdom. The systems are designed to...

Satellite technology and services are underpinning the Group of 8 (G8) political summit meeting in Germany. ND Satcom is working with the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) during...

The Kudelski Group, which supplies middleware and conditional access solutions to direct-to-home operators worldwide, has settled a patent dispute with Assa Abloy Identification Technologies. Kudelski’s subsidiary, NagraID, settled the dispute...

Developed by Thales Alenia Space Italia for the Italian Space Agency and the Italian Ministry of Defense, a COSMO-SkyMed spacecraft was awaiting a June 7 launch aboard a Delta 2...

Thuraya plans to re-launch its mobile satellite services in a bid to gain customers while promising significant discounts to existing subscribers, the operator announced June 5. Branded ThurayaECO, the new...

DirecTV-10 has been delivered to a space center in Kazakhstan in preparation for a launch scheduled for early July, the RIA Novosti newspaper quoted a Russian space company on June...

SkyWave Mobile Communications, a supplier of D+ communications products and services, announced June 6 that it had obtained the mandatory CE marking for its SureLinx 8100 D+/GPRS integrated wireless controller....

Boeing Co. has demonstrated that its Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) can provide warfighters with rapid access to integrated voice, data and video services, the company announced June 6. Dubbed...