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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) said its space-based imagery is being used to help direct relief efforts and assess the damage caused by the Dec. 26, 2004 tsunamis. The company...

SES Astra is aiming to play a key role in the Croatian pay-TV and Internet market. It is teaming up with local operator Vodatel, which intends to offer broadband, Video-on-Demand...

TU Media Corp., a joint venture between SK Telecom and Toshiba Corp., is to begin trials of its new service to deliver satellite broadcasts to mobile phones. According to a...

RaySat Inc. on Jan. 7 unveiled its SpeedRay 3000 antenna at the Consumer Electronics Showcase in Las Vegas that will deliver high-speed Internet services to in-motion vehicles and distributes the...

Shin Satellite PLC said Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) informed the company that it successfully concluded its antenna patterns and end-to-end payload tests in compact antenna test range (CATR) for the iPSTAR-1...

The East Valley Tribune (Arizona) reported on its Web site on Jan. 7 that General Dynamics‘ C4 Systems division won an $830 million contract from Lockheed Martin to help develop...

Robert Odendaal, president of the Bell Video Group, which owns digital satellite TV service provider Bell ExpressVu, believes the operator has a number of competitive advantages over its cable competition....

Telesat said last week that it acquired The Spaceconnection Inc., a provider of programming-related satellite transmission services to U.S. television net-works and cable programmers. Financial terms of the transaction were...

Throughout the world, commercial enterprises, individuals and govern-ments are pitching in to aid those who have survived the devastating tsunamis that took the lives of more than 180,000 people on...

Although there has been no official confirmation on whether Zeus Holdings Ltd., the company formed by a consortium of private equity firms Apax Partners, Apollo Management, Madison Dearborn Partners and...