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By Jason Bates As the makeup of the global satellite operators comes into focus, industry attention is shifting toward the regional operators. Industry executives and customers want to know which...

By James Careless The satellite offices of the major news conglomerates are on the front line for regional, live news coverage that gets global exposure. Today, however, advanced equipment and...

By Owen D. Kurtin Last year, we predicted that 2004 might go down in history as the year that the satellite business started to rationalize itself, turned the corner of...

People CSR Appoints Senior VP, Marketing And Sales Canadian Satellite Radio (CSR) announced that Colin Bettam was appointed senior vice president of marketing and sales. Bettam will be responsible for...

Eutelsat will issue more than 71 million new shares of stock through its initial public offering (IPO), raising about 860 million euros ($1 billion). Eutelsat set the price of its...

France Telecom submitted a proposal to sell its France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications unit to private equity firm Apax, according to the Web site of the Federal Cartel Office, which...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has scheduled the launch of the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) for Jan. 19 aboard a H-2A launch vehicle. The rocket will be launched...

Kazakhstan Prime Minister Danial Akhmetov said the country, which plans to launch its first satellite, Kazsat, before the end of 2005, expects to launch its second satellite within two years....

Canada’s Department of National Defence deployed MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.‘s (MDA) satellite surveillance and intelligence information solution for the Brigade Training Event 2005, MDA announced Nov. 30. The exercise...

Echostar Communications Corp. introduced Nov. 30 Michael Dugan as the company’s chief technical officer. Dugan, the chief architect of the technological foundation upon which the Dish Network direct-to-home satellite television...