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[3/2/07] Arianespace will launch the Spaceway-3 communications satellite for Hughes Network Systems LLC, the companies announced March 1. An August liftoff is scheduled aboard an Ariane 5 launch from the...

EchoStar Communications Corp. reported revenue of $9.8 billion in 2006, up from $8.5 billion in 2005, the company announced March 1. Profits slipped from $1.5 billion in 2005 to $608...

Boeing Co. completed a critical design review of its family of advanced beyond-line-of-sight terminals (FAB-T) program, the company announced March 1. The review — attended by senior U.S. Air Force,...

GIT Satellite and Iridium Satellite will provide communications for the Iditarod Sled Dog Race, which begins March 4. GIT Satellite will donate a complete complement of Iridium equipment, airtime, and...

Ascent Media Network Services has appointed Wee Way Kiat managing director of its Asian business, the company announced March 1. Wee, who will be based in Singapore, will have operational,...

It is, quite simply, a spectacular 18 seconds of video. The explosion that destroyed Sea Launch’s Zenit-3SL rocket and SES New Skies’ NSS-8 satellite, creating a fireball that engulfed the...

A little more than year after completing its initial public offering, Eutelsat is undergoing significant ownership changes as the satellite operator’s private equity holders sell their stakes. Spanish industrial group...

In mid-2005, European politicians declared that “European space policy will take off before the end of 2005.” It did not quite happen that way, as European voters rejected the European...

In June 1997, then-U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Reed Hundt called a hypothetical merger between AT&T and one of the regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs) spun off in the...