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German companies will receive additional work on Europe’s Galileo program, under an agreement reached Dec. 5 among European companies involved in the project. The latest agreement, signed by the eight...

Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. (CSR), the Canadian affiliate of XM Satellite Radio, said Dec. 6 it will offer more than 3.4 million shares of stock in an initial public...

Globalstar LLC said Dec. 6 that Elsacom, an independent gateway operator and Globalstar service distributor in Central and Eastern Europe, won a 20 million euro ($23.6 million) contract to provide...

The Modern Times Group (MTG), which owns the Viasat direct-to-home satellite television platform in the Nordic region, increased its stake in Nordic Betting Ltd. to 90 percent, MTG announced. MTG...

Radyne Corp. said Dec. 6 it completed shipment of a previously undisclosed order of DMD-20 satellite modems, valued at more than $1.6 million, to Chinasat Communications Group. The modems will...

Worldspace Satellite Radio said Dec. 5 it launched subscription service in Chandigarh, the capital of India’s Punjab state. Chandigarh, the ninth city Worldspace has rolled out service to in 2005,...

ViaSat said Dec. 5 it is supplying its Surfbeam broadband satellite network to Telesat, enabling Telesat customers in Colombia to provide Internet access to schools and other projects. Telesat customers...

Alcatel Alenia Space signed a deal with China Satellite Communication Corp. to design and manufacture the Chinasat 6B satellite, Alcatel announced Dec. 5. Chinasat 6B will be based on the...

Datapath Inc. said Dec. 5 it received a $42.4 million contract from the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command in Ft. Monmouth, N.J., for custom satellite earth terminals and associated services. Datapath...

Orbital Sciences Corp. said Dec. 5 it received an $11.7 million contract from Foothill Transit of West Covina, Calif., to provide a Smartbus System to track and manage Foothill Transit’s...