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The French Navy selected France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications and Eclipse to provide satellite broadband communication services for military aircraft, EMS Satcom and Eclipse announced July 17. Eclipse, acting as...

Shin Satellite engineers have transferred customers from Thaicom 3 to Thaicom 5, the company announced. Thaicom 5, placed into orbit in May from a successful Arianespace launch, is fitted with...

JSAT Corp.’s JCSAT-10 spacecraft arrived at Kourou Space Center in French Guiana in preparation for an Aug. 11 launch aboard an Ariane 5 rocket, Arianespace announced. The spacecraft will be...

The U.S. Air Force failed to follow federal regulations in awarding a contract to Boeing Co. to develop a sensor for a next-generation U.S. government weather satellite, according to an...

Northrop Grumman Corp. will supply navigation systems for a next-generation military satellite communications system under a subcontract from Lockheed Martin Corp., Northrop announced July 17. Under the initial $4 million...

NDS Ltd., a supplier of conditional access and middleware solutions, is expecting a busy 12 months due to expected growth in the satellite pay-TV market. NDS works with companies such...

SelecTV deployed Harmonic Inc.‘s Internet Protocol (IP)-based compression and multiplexing solutions for its direct-to-home satellite pay-TV service in Australia, Harmonic announced July 13. SelecTV will use the Divicom Electra 1000...

Canalsat selected Tandberg Television‘s high-definition (HD) MPEG-4 AVC video encoding and distribution system for the launch of its HD service, Tandberg Television announced July 13. Canalsat HD will begin before...

Globalstar Australia completed an equity purchase with Tenzeng Pty Ltd. to launch a suite of asset tracking services in the Australian market, Pivotel Group, Globalstar Australia’s parent company, announced. Tenzeng’s...

SES Americom announced July 11 its Redisat network is available in the United States. The network, which targets first responders, emergency management professionals and private enterprises, supplies satellite space bandwidth...