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Loral Skynet partnered with Go2Call to provide Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services to Asia’s telecommunications and ISP/Broadband carriers, businesses and government organizations. The partnership will combine Skynet’s Telstar satellite...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. began production June 20 of a full-scale trial unit of the upper and lower domes of the fuel tanks for the H-2B rocket, Japan’s next- generation...

Boeing announced June 21 that the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES-N) satellite has reached its orbital slot and now is controlled by NASA. The satellite has been renamed GOES-13 and...

Hughes Network Systems LLC introduced the HX System, a new broadband satellite platform, Hughes announced June 20. The system is intended to offer a cost-effective solution for smaller networks that...

Panamsat signed a deal with TVBI Co. Ltd. June 19 to distribute Chinese-language programming throughout the Asia Pacific region, the United States and Europe. The signal uplink from Hong Kong...

The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Stereo Airfield Collection program awarded Geoeye a $3.7 million contract to collect imagery of 365 airfields and produce mapping databases, Geoeye announced June 21....

DirecTV Inc. will provide a new luxury programming and service package called DirecTV Titanium, the company announced June 20. The package, priced at $7,500 per year, includes unlimited access to...

Inmarsat, which took its Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service global by expanding the service into North and South America in May, is looking to make a different kind of...

ViaSat Inc. acquired Enerdyne Technologies Inc., a provider of video data link equipment and digital video systems primarily for unmanned aerial vehicles, ViaSat announced June 21. The acquisition will expand...

Members of SPATEA (Spar Professional and Allied Technical Employee’s Association) employed at MDA Space Missions are preparing to strike , MacDonald Dettwiler announced June 21. The employees have been working...