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XM Canada reached the 80,000-subscriber mark at the end of its fiscal year third quarter and added Toyota and Lexus as an automobile distribution partnership, Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings Inc....

EADS Atrium signed a contract with Arabsat to build the BADR-6 communications satellite, the companies announced June 6. Under the in-orbit delivery contract, Astrium will supply its Eurostar platform and...

Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp. announced June 5 it received a $1.4 million order under its General Services Administration schedule to provide Model 2011 mobile aviation satellite data communications transceivers and...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) signed a memorandum of understanding with the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the French space agency, to place space environment measurement equipment on the...

Polsat CEO Dominik Libicki is hopeful the operator can do a deal with leading Polish telco TPSA to offer services via Internet Protocol. Polsat is the second largest satellite pay-TV...

Falcon Communications Inc. signed an agreement with Intelsat to distribute the satellite operator’s Ampiage service, Intelsat announced June 5. Falcon will distribute Ampiage to the about 800 U.S. telcos the...

Swales Aerospace received a contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide the platform for the TacSat-3 mission, the company announced June 2. The task order was made under Swales’...

NASA announced June 2 it awarded a contract with Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services Inc. to use an Atlas 5 to launch the Mars Science Laboratory mission in the fall...

Pakistan’s National Database & Registration Authority (NADRA) signed an agreement with British Telecom (BT) June 1 to obtain the DVB-RCS satellite communication system that will enhance NADRA’s broadband capability. Under...

Vocati Enterprises unveiled June 1 a new satellite service designed to keep business operating after a hurricane. The Systems for Automated Failure Recovery was developed in conjunction with GMPCS Personal...