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WRSP Worldspace Satellite Radio‘s recent financial results and subscriber numbers have been improved, but the company’s stock price has been taken on a short roller coaster ride throughout the past...

Convergence between satellite broadcasting and telecom service took another step forward as the United Kingdom’s British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB) acquired a nationwide broadband network, Easynet. Recently, the satellite pay-TV...

Space Explorations Technology Corp. (SpaceX) postponed the inaugural flight of its Falcon 1 rocket by a day to March 24, the company announced. The company performed a static fire test...

International Communications Group Inc. (ICG) announced March 22 that it has completed testing of its ACARS-compliant (Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System), Iridium-based messaging solution and delivered initial production equipment....

STMicroelectronics, a supplier of silicon chips for set-top boxes (STBs), announced March 22 a low-cost satellite STB receiver/decoder chip – the STI5188 – intended for high-volume free-to-air markets in Asia,...

Raytheon‘s Intelligence and Information Systems business has won a six-month, competitive contract from the U.S. National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration‘s (NOAA) National Ocean Service to develop a conceptual design, life-cycle...

U.K. satellite pay-TV operator BSkyB plans to launch a variety of new services enabled by its acquisition of Easynet, BSkyB announced. The satellite operator, which has been accelerating its plans...

Tandberg Television announced March 21 that it is providing the video compression systems to enable China’s first national high definition (HD) TV roll-out. The HD video delivery system is based...

Panamsat announced March 20 that it signed a multi-year agreement with Strong Technologies Llc of Dubai for programming distribution on its PAS-10 Indian Ocean Region satellite. The multinational company will...

Eutelsat Communications announced March 21 that NTV-Plus, a Russian direct-to-home pay-TV platform, is boosting its capacity on Eutelsat’s W4 satellite from six to eight transponders. The new agreement for high-power...