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Eutelsat has announced a significant move as it aims to boost its broadband presence in Europe. It is teaming up with ViaSat to jointly offer an “affordable, high-quality” consumer broadband...

Boeing Co. has completed on-orbit handover of the MEASAT-3 satellite to MEASAT Satellite Systems, Boeing announced Feb. 19. The transfer of the Boeing 601 satellite to MEASAT followed on-orbit testing...

SES Global announced its full year results for 2006, which saw its overall revenues increase over 28 percent to 1.6 billion euros ($2.10 billion) for the year compared to 2005....

[2/20/07] XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio on Feb. 19 announced a definitive agreement under which the companies would combine in a tax-free, all-stock merger of equals with a...

[2/19/07] SciSys, a software services provider, has signed a contract with EADS Astrium GmbH to develop on-board satellite software for the three-satellite Swarm mission, part in the European Space Agency’s...

Boeing Co. is designing a smaller, more versatile spacecraft platform intended to appeal to the commercial and military markets, company spokeswoman Diana Ball confirmed. The new offering, first reported by...

[2/19/07 edition] Iridium Satellite will spend more than $2 billion to build and deploy its second-generation satellite constellation, dubbed Iridium Next, the company announced Feb. 15. Plans call for the...

[2/19/07 edition] SES Global has agreed to repurchase 103.1 million shares of SES from GE in a transaction valued at 1.2 billion euros ($1.6 billion), SES announced Feb. 14. In...

What was supposed to be a banner start to 2007 has turned into somewhat of a challenge for SES New Skies CEO Rob Bednarek. The company’s NSS-8 satellite was destroyed...

XM Satellite Radio XM Satellite Radio agreed to sell its XM-4 satellite to a trust owned by Satellite Leasing LLC and will lease back capacity aboard the spacecraft, XM said...