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Starsem announces Oct. 5 it received a contract from Globalstar LLC to launch a replacement spacecraft for the global satellite telephone operator. The contract call for Starsem to launch a...

Iridium Satellite announced Oct. 6 it will provide satellite links for a new mobile system that uses radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to track the movement of military supplies in forward...

Vista Satellite Communications Inc. and Winnercomm Inc. signed a multi-year contract for Vista to provide satellite telecasts of sporting events produced by Winnercomm. Vista will uplink in Ku-band from venues...

Near Earth LLC. named Dan Ramsden to build the company’s growth-oriented investment banking practice. Previously, Ramsden was a managing director at Bentley Associates, where he was involved in sourcing, banking...

Sirius Satellite Radio announced Oct. 4 it added more than 359,000 new net subscribers to its subscription satellite radio service in the third quarter 2005, bringing its total subscribers to...

Americom Government Services (AGS), a subsidiary of SES Americom, announced Oct. 5 it received a five-year contract to support the Center For Disease Control and Prevention‘s (CDC) Global Disease Detection...

Talkswitch, a company specializing in the design and manufacture of telephone systems for small and multi-location businesses, announced Oct. 5 that it has teamed with Ramtelecom to provide a satellite-based...

Caprock Communications announced Oct. 4 it opened of a new operations center in Ciudad Del Carmen, Mexico. The facility will serve as a regional sales office and technical support center...

Shipping company Maersk Sealand completed a field evaluation of Inmarsat’s Fleet F77 128 kilobits per second services, Inmarsat announced. “Throughout the trial we found the 128 kbps Fleet F77 service...

Thrane & Thrane said Oct. 5 the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) awarded the company a five-year schedule contract through which government agencies can procure and deploy Thrane & Thrane’s...