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SES Astra signed a deal with Germany’s Anixe GmbH & Co. KG for the transmission of a high-definition (HD) TV channel. SES Astra will broadcast the Anixe HD channel from...

The German Space Agency DLR and EADS Astrium will collaborate on a new radar imagery satellite that will help map the Earth, the organizations announced May 17. The spacecraft, dubbed...

Inmarsat posted a profit of $14.8 million in its 2006 first quarter on revenues of $121.7 million, the company announced May 17. In the same period a year ago, the...

Swe-Dish Satellite Systems AB and Saab AB unveiled a demonstrator for an affordable satcom-on-the-move platform based combining the companies’ existing technologies and commercial -off-the-shelf components. The platform integrates Swe-Dish’s satellite...

Telenor Satellite Services, a subsidiary of Telenor of Norway, has appointed Robert Baker president of Telenor Satellite Services’ operations and holdings companies in the United States, the company announced May...

The Australian government will extends its program for subsidizing the purchase of satellite phones for people living or working in remote parts of the country through 2009, the minister for...

Premiere has chosen NDS middleware to help power the German pay-TV operator’s new interactive platform in Germany and Austria. Premiere will deploy NDS Mediahighway middleware, which will enable Premiere to...

Spacedev Inc. reported revenues of $7.2 million in the first quarter of 2006, up nearly 300 percent from the same period a year ago, primarily due to the acquisition of...

Boeing Co. has agreed to pay the U.S. government $615 million to settle charges of ethical misconduct surrounding the U.S. Air Force’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle 9 (EELV) competition and...

A Northrop Grumman Corp. team completed a series of tests that proved a key element of NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can function in space, the company announced May...