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Satelinx announced Aug. 28 the expansion of its research and development division. Based on its success, Satelinx’s STS-Trakmate, bracelet-type/multi-purpose personal tracking and communication system encouraged the company’s investment into new...

Wavestream, a manufacturer of high-efficiency solid-state power amplifiers (SSPAs) has named Francis S. Auricchio, Jr. as executive vice president of engineering and technology. Auricchio will manage and oversee Wavestream’s engineering...

Mobile Satellite Ventures announced that Wade Alt has joined the company as vice president of services distribution and management, and Vijay Venkateswaran has joined the company as vice president of...

Iridium Satellite LLC on Aug. 27 officially opened its new telemetry, tracking and command/control (TTAC) station in Fairbanks, Alaska in a move to provide additional layers of redundancy, flexibility and...

The merger of Sky Brasil and DirecTV Brasil has been completed and DirecTV Group Inc. has acquired the interests of News Corp. and Liberty Media in Sky Brasil, DirecTV Group...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued new grants of authority for three XM radios with FM transmitters, XM Satellite Radio announced Aug. 25. The certification means that three of...

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. will provide a Skyedge broadband satellite hub station and VSAT terminals to Empresa Nicaraguense de Telecomunicaciones (Enitel), Gilat announced. Enitel will use the system to provide...

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) won another in a series of patents issued to the company for its advanced Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) technology. The U.S. Patent Office awarded MSV a...

Assurance Technology Corporation received a contract from NASA, in coordination with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to provide an instrument for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program,...

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. delivered the Nextsat Commodities Spacecraft for Boeing Co.’s Orbital Express, Ball announced. The satellite, being developed for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),...