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SES Astra signed an agreement with Top TV, a free-to-air leisure and shopping channel in the Czech Republic, to provide for digital capacity on Astra 2C, SES announced Jan. 19....

Spot Image Corp., the U.S. marketing arm of France’s Spot Image, has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for the purchase of satellite imagery products and...

Echostar Communications Corp. filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission Jan. 19 to offer $1 billion in debt securities. The proceeds of the offering, being conducted by...

The European Space Agency (ESA) signed a 950 million euro ($1.2 billion) contract with Galileo Industries GmbH for the development and in-orbit validation of the Galileo satellite navigation constellation’s first...

The launch of NASA‘s New Horizons mission to Pluto was delayed for the second straight day after NASA’s mission control center at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory lost power...

Radyne Corp. named Carl Myron Wagner president and COO effective Jan. 30, the company announced. Wagner also is a candidate for CEO, Radyne said. Brian Duggan, who has served as...

iDirect Technologies, a division of Vision Technologies Systems Inc., and Globecomm Systems Inc. have deployed their first hub intended specifically to support GSM networks over satellite, the companies said. The...

Telesat Canada awarded a contract to EADS Astrium to build the Nimiq 4 direct broadcast satellite, the companies announced. The spacecraft, based on the E3000 platform, will carry 32 Ku-band...

Spacedev Inc. raised gross proceeds of about $5.2 million through the sale of convertible preferred stock and warrants to a small syndicate of new and existing institutional investors, the company...

Pace Micro Technology had a difficult second half of 2005, recording a loss of 8.9 million British pounds ($15.7 million) for the 26 weeks which ended Dec 3. At the...