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Eutelsat‘s Hot Bird 7A satellite arrived in Kourou, French Guiana, in preparation for its scheduled Feb. 21 launch aboard an Ariane 5 ECA rocket, Arianespace announced Jan. 20. Hot Bird...

NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr. will host a weekly show on XM Satellite Radio beginning Feb. 13, XM announced. The show will cover the NASCAR circuit, as well as other...

Echostar Communications Corp., raised $1.5 billion through a private debt placement, the company announced Jan. 20. Proceeds of the offering by the Echostar DBS Corp. subsidiary will be used to...

Globecomm Systems Inc., a provider of end-to-end satellite-based communications solutions, announced Jan. 19 that it has been awarded multiple contracts valued at about $3.1 million from an unnamed existing customer....

EADS Space estimates that its share of work under the contract signed by Galileo Industries with the European Space Agency (ESA) will be about 200 million euros, EADS said Jan....

Ondas Media CEO Celso Azevedo is confident that satellite radio will have as big an impact in Europe as it has in the United States. Ondas Media plans to launch...

NASA‘s New Horizons mission began its nine-year flight to Pluto after two days of delays. The satellite was launched aboard an International Launch Services Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral...

German-based ND Satcom, a global supplier of satellite-based broadband VSAT, broadcast and defense communication network solutions, has seen the market’s demand for meshed and hybrid network topologies. According to the...

Bill Page, appointed vice president, broadcast sales, will head its new broadcast business division in Herndon, VA. Prior to joining Vocality, Page was at Brightstar Communications, Voyager and Reuters Television....

Kurt Pauwels, managing director of Belgian direct-to-home (DTH) provider TV Vlaanderen believes 2006 will be a “breakthrough” year for digital television in the country. The new DTH operator launched digital...