Hughes Applies For NASDAQ Listing
Hughes Communications Inc. applied to list its common stock on the NASDAQ Global Market, the company announced July 5. Hughes began offering shares in February on the over-the-counter bulleting board...
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Sirius Continues To Gain On XM
Sirius Satellite Radio added 600,460 net subscribers during the second quarter of 2006 to bring its total subscriber base to 4.7 million, the company announced July 6. Rival XM Satellite...
Boeing To Define Next-Generation Polar Satellite Payload
Boeing received a study contract from the U.S. Air Force to define the next-generation communications payload for a polar-orbiting satellite, the company announced July 6. Under the six-month, $1.5 million...
Saft Awarded Dollar Contract For Lithium-Ion Batteries
Boeing awarded Saft a contract to provide lithium-ion batteries for a pair of spacecraft being built for Mobile Satellite Ventures. The rechargeable batteries will provide up to 18 years of...
Surrey Satellite Turns Over Beijing-1 Satellite
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. delivered the Beijing-1 satellite to the Beijing Landview Mapping Information Technology Co. Ltd., the British satellite manufacturer announced June 30. The Earth observation microsatellite can collect...
Eutelsat Completes Transfer Of Atlantic Bird 4 Satellite
The Atlantic Bird 4 satellite entered full commercial service providing direct-to-home services in the Middle East and Africa from its new location at 7 degrees West, Eutelsat Communications announced July...
Germany Orders Military Satellite Communications System
Milsat Services GmbH, a company set up by ND Satcom and EADS Space Services, will supply a pair of secure military communication satellites, a ground network and communications services for...
Boeing To Build Three More GPS Satellites
The U.S. Air Force awarded Boeing a $138 million option to build three additional GPS satellites under the company’s existing Block 2F contract, Boeing announced July 5. The company will...
Arianespace To Launch BADR-6 For Arabsat
Arianespace will sign a deal with Arabsat to launch the BADR-6 satellite for Arab Satellite Communications Organization (Arabsat) in mid 2008, according to industry sources. In June, Arabsat announced EADS...
ABS-CBN International Completes Upgrade with SFIG for triple-Play Services
ABS-CBN International launched triple-play services following a technology upgrade at its San Francisco International Gateway satellite uplink center in Richmond, Calif., the company announced. ABS-CBN, the U.S. subsidiary of ABS-CBN...