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The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) released a solicitation for proposals to provide commercial satellite communications solutions to the U.S. government, the agency announced Feb. 10. The GSA will award...

Sea Launch delayed the Feb. 12 launch of a direct broadcast satellite for Echostar Communications Corp. for undisclosed reasons. This was the second launch delay for Echostar 10, which originally...

Arabsat has teamed up with Cetel Germany, a provider of teleport and satellite services, to launch a satellite broadband initiative in the Middle East and Africa. The new service, which...

Eutelsat subsidiary Skylogic Italia won a contract to provide satellite broadband access to public administrators in Tuscany, Italy. Under the contract awarded by the region of Tuscany, Skylogic will provide...

Alcatel Alenia Space will provide the Defense User Ground Segment for the Cosmo-Skymed earth observation program to the French Ministry of Defense, Alcatel announced. The 32 million Euro ($38.3 million)...

Telenor Satellite Services and Addvalue Technologies announced that the two companies have entered into a strategic business agreement to provide satellite communications services for the terrestrial, maritime and aeronautical markets....

IMS Research estimates that by the end of 2005, more than 2.6 million households in Europe were using a digital video recorder (DVR). By 2010, this market is forecast to...

XM Satellite Radio signed an three-year, $55 million agreement to carry content provided by Oprah Winfrey’s radio company, XM announced Feb. 9. Under the agreement with Harpo Radio Inc., XM...

From Feb. 6-9 in Washington, D.C., The SATELLITE 2006 Conference and Exhibition played host to more than 7,400 attendees and 245 exhibiting companies. Held annually by Via Satellite magazine and...

It looks as if the telecom/dot.com depression that weighed down the satellite industry is over, and 2006 is looking good for attracting additional private equity (PE) and public market investment....