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New Skies Satellite Holdings Ltd. announced Dec. 19 that its board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend of 46.3125 cent per share for the period from Oct. 1 to...

Alcatel Alenia Space said Dec. 19 it received the acceptance by the French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) of the Syracuse 3 military communications satellite system. Alcatel qualified the Syracuse 3...

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is testing a maritime safety system for automatic vessel monitoring and emergency alert at sea using the Iridium satellite network. “The Iridium-based vessel tracking...

Satellite broadband service provider Wildblue expects to have more than 25,000 subscribers by the end of the year, according to a letter from company CEO Dave Leonard that appeared on...

The Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications and Industrial Scientists Consortium SDN BHD of Malaysia announced Dec. 16 they would establish a working group aimed at procuring and launching a...

Ocean Equipment, a mounting solutions provider for marine electronics, introduced Dec. 15 a new range of Scanstrut mounts for use with KVH‘s Tracvision M3 satellite television antenna. Options for both...

BSkyB announced that COO Richard Freudenstein will leave the company in mid 2006. Freudenstein is returning to Australia after spending more than seven years with Sky, six of those as...

Satellite broadband service provider Wildblue expects to have more than 25,000 subscribers by the end of the year, according to a letter from company CEO Dave Leonard that appeared on...

SES Global S.A.‘s announced acquisition of New Skies Satellites Holdings Ltd. will keep SES solidly at the top of the Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) industry along with the merged Intelsat-Panamsat,...

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Dec. 9 issued an order assigning unused spectrum in the 2-GHz Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) bands to TMI/Terrestar Networks Inc. and ICO Satellite Services...