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Spacenet Inc. earlier this week said it extended its services portfolio with the new Connexstar Enterprise Partition (EP) service, which provides a partitioned central hub infrastructure and dedicated network bandwidth...

ITT Industries said it received a one-year base contract from Telos Corp. to provide operations and maintenance support for the AN/GSC-39D Standardized Tactical Entry Point (STEP) facility at Al Udeid...

WRSP Worldspace Inc., a provider of subscription satellite radio services to subscribers outside the United States, joined the satellite operator IPO Class of 2005 Aug. 4 when it’s the company’s...

Hughes Network Systems LLC (HNS) has leased “multiple” transponders aboard the Intelsat Americas-8 (IA-8) satellite, capacity that was purchased prior to the satellite’s June launch, in order to meet expected...

New Skies Satellites Holdings Ltd. reported revenue of $59.7 million in its second quarter 2005, the company said Aug. 4. The net loss in the second quarter 2005 was $13.2...

DirecTV Group Inc. earned $162 million in its second quarter 2005, rebounding from a net loss of $13 million in the same period a year ago, DirecTV reported Aug. 4....

Worldspace Inc. closed its first day of trading on the Nasdaq market at $22.36. Worldspace’s debuted on the Nasdaq market Aug. 4 under the symbol WRSP with an initial public...

Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. (Asiasat) launched a new Kashmiri channel aboard Asiasat 2 in conjunction with Azad Jammu and Kashmir Television Station, Asiasat announced Aug. 4. AJK TV is...

The total number of leased C- and Ku-band transponders should exceed 4,950 in 2010, up from 4,125 at the end of 2004, according to Northern Sky Research. While demand for...

The launch of Russia’s latest remote Earth-sensing satellite, Monitor-E, was postponed until Aug. 26 due to a problem with the satellite’s navigation system, according to reports from Itar-Tass. The launch...