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Raytheon Co. has been awarded a $14.5 million contract by the U.S. Air Force to build terminals for the Global Broadcasting Service (GBS), the company announced May 1. Raytheon will...

Orbital Sciences Corp. received a contract from Intelsat to manufacture the Intelsat-15 (IS-15) communications satellite, Orbital announced May 1. The satellite, scheduled for a launch in early 2009, will be...

[5/02/07] Sirius Satellite Radio recorded a record $204 million in revenues in the 2007 first quarter, a 61 percent increase from revenues of $126.7 million for the same period in...

High transponders prices continue to be the biggest concern for many in Africa and jumped to the forefront of discussions at Satcom Africa 2007. During the opening sessions of the...

Whether the European Union should set up an agency similar to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is not a new topic. Similar proposals were covered in this column in...

As governments throughout the world make improving education a more important goal, many are beginning to embrace — and help fund — satellite-enabled initiatives. Satellite-related technology has proven to be...

Customers are seeking robust encoding solutions that are futureproof and can be easily adapted to meet the needs of a marketplace where mobile content delivery requirements are emerging to join...

Dozens of new imagery satellites are scheduled to be placed into orbit throughout the next several years. With a wide array of capabilities, resolutions and owners, these spacecraft could spur...

Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation project was launched with great fanfare earlier this decade by the European Union (EU) and European Space Agency, and the first testbed satellite began transmitting signals...

Hughes Introduces High-Speed BGAN Mobile Satellite Terminal Hughes Network Systems LLC latest generation 9250 mobile satellite terminal has been approved to operate over Inmarsat’s Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN), Hughes...