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MultiChoice, a South Africa-based, direct-to-home (DTH) television provider, has selected Intelsat to support its mobile broadcast TV trial in the metropolitan areas of Johannesburg, Soweto, Pretoria and Cape Town, Intelsat...

Telesat has been signed by the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), Pakistan’s  national space agency, to assist in the procurement and 2010 launch of the Paksat-1R satellite...

Wegener Corp.’s board of directors has formed a committee of independent directors to consider strategic and financial alternatives to boost shareholder value, the company announced March 13. The company has...

Premiere Sky, a new subsidiary of German pay-TV operator Premiere, will launch an eponymous programming package in September, the company announced March 14 in Munich. Sold as an inexpensive package,...

The Jan. 30 catastrophic failure of Sea Launch’s Zenit-3SL booster carrying the NSS-8 commercial communications satellite was caused by an engine failure, according to a commission of independent Ukrainian and...

SES Astra, a subsidiary of SES, will launch its Astra-1L satellite onboard an Ariane 5 rocket, SES Astra announced March 14. The satellite, an A2100 AXS model built by Lockheed...

[3/14/07] GeoEye Inc. has reported that an anomaly to its Orbview-3 has effectively blinded the satellite’s imaging capability. In a March 9 filing to the U.S. States Securities and Exchange...

For news and updates from Satcom Africa 2007, read Satellite Today’s blog about all the latest happenings in Johannesburg.

Kishore Shirekar has been named general manager for NDS India as conditional access and middleware vendor NDS aims for improved performance amid a potentially lucrative DTH market in India. Based...

Hughes Network Systems is offering enterprise users nationwide broadband coverage with a choice of DSL and/or satellite technologies, the company announced March 13. Hughes has signed wholesale agreements with New...