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EuroNews, a pan-European news channel, will now be available throughout Asia thanks to a key deal with satellite operator Eutelsat. EuroNews will now be broadcast with two signals in Asia...

ND SatCom today said it delivered a turnkey ground station for satellite communications to the German Armed Forces in Kastellaun, Germany. This station will connect the transportable satellite ground stations...

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [GILTF] today announced it has added Sky-Abis, a satellite solution for GSM operators, to its SkyEdge family of products. Sky-Abis allows mobile operators to expand their...

In the latest move to bolster its content offering, Sirius Satellite Radio signed a three-year deal to exclusively carry all the games of NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship live,...

Pace Micro Technology has a won a key deal with German pay-TV operator Premiere to supply PVR (Personal Video Recorder) STBs. Premiere has more than three million subscribers in Germany...

Lockheed Martin [LMT] today said the GPS IIR-13 satellite, launched Nov. 6 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,FL, has been declared fully operational for military and civilian navigation use. With...

Satellite Phone Source Inc. [SPHI], a renter of satellite telecommunications equipment, today announced the opening of an office in Vancouver, British Columbia. “We are very excited about now becoming an...

Intelsat Ltd. revealed that its Intelsat Americas-7 satellite experienced a sudden and unexpected electrical distribution anomaly that caused the permanent loss of the spacecraft Nov. 28 at 2:30 a.m. EST....

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has dismissed a protest from New SI LLC filed after National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) awarded the NextView Second Vendor contract to Orbimage Inc. [ORBM]. In...

BT, the UK telco has now exited the satellite business after selling its stake in leading satellite operator Eutelsat. BT sold its 15.8 percent stake for GBP368 million ($675 million)...