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Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Co. CEO Yousuf Al Sayed said generating stronger revenues from the African communications market is one of the company’s key challenges in 2006. “The major challenges are...

ViaSat Inc. posted a profit of $6 million on revenue of $104.1 million in its second quarter 2006, the company announced Nov. 3. In the same period a year ago,...

A Boeing-led team received a $10 million, six-month contract to define a next-generation weather satellite for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boeing announced Nov. 3. The Program...

Sirius Satellite Radio announced Nov. 3 its Canadian affiliate, Sirius Canada, will offer 100 channels of programming for Cdn. $14.99 ($12.66) per month when it begins broadcasting in December. Sirius...

Digitalglobe and Valtus Imagery Services, a division of Northwest Geomatics Ltd., entered into a three-year data distribution partnership to offer Digitalglobe’s high-resolution commercial satellite imagery to Valtus customers. Valtus customers...

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) announced Nov. 3 that it had reached an agreement with Donald Stout to lead MSV’s patent licensing and enforcement efforts. Stout brings to MSV an extensive...

The Canadian Space Agency‘s Radarsat-1 satellite celebrated its 10th anniversary Nov. 4. The satellite, launched Nov. 4, 1995 and expected to operate only five years, has flown nearly 2.4 million...

Venezuela signed an agreement Nov. 1 to buy a satellite from China, the Venezuelan Ministry of Science and Technology announced. The Simon Bolivar Satellite will provide telecommunications services such as...

Boeing Co.‘s government launch services business faces short-term and potentially long-term delays as the company’s union machinists went on strike Nov. 3. The strike could push back the three remaining...

No one is ready to call Space Communication Corp.‘s (SCC) awarding of the Superbird-7 contract to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Melco) the beginning of a major shift in the satellite manufacturing...