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Wildblue Communications Inc. dropped the installation price for its satellite Internet service by $100, the company announced Jan. 3. Installation of Wildblue’s equipment package is being offered for $79.95 through...

Echostar Communications Corporation announced Jan. 4 that its Dish Network passed the 12 million customer milestone in late December. Dish Network reached 1 million subscribers in December 1997 and passed...

XM Satellite Radio unveiled four new portable radios Jan. 4, including a pair of units that can receive live XM signals as well as play stored digital music files,. The...

Orbcomm completed equity financings totaling more than $110 million which will be used primarily to fund Orbcomm’s next generation satellite program, the company announced Jan. 4. The investors were led...

Echostar Communications Corporation dropped Lifetime and Lifetime Movie Network from its Dish Network satellite TV service in a contract dispute with Lifetime Television, the companies announced Jan. 1. Lifetime demanded...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) test fired an upgraded version of the strap-on solid rocket motor for its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) for 58 seconds Dec. 29, ISRO...

Omega-Orion Enterprises Ltd. Co. has launched a new high-speed satellite Internet service, the company announced Jan. 2. The service will use the DOCSIS protocol used by cable companies for cable...

Com Dev International Ltd. was awarded a contract to provide satellite components to an unnamed Asian customer, Com Dev announced. Under the terms of the contract, valued at between $5...

Eumetsat, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, has begun commissioning operations for the second of its new generation of weather satellites, Meteosat Second Generation (MSG-2). Eumetsat has...

"…Via Satellite can’t be merely good, it will have to be better, striving to be the best…" Those were the words of then Editor and Publisher Irl Marshall, in 1986,...