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Washington, D.C.-based XM Satellite Radio [XMSR], the largest provider of satellite radio in the United States with more than 2.5 million subscribers, gained a boost from consumer audio products manufacturer...

The deals between satellite-TV service providers and telephone companies just keep coming. It seems to be a natural alliance to beat back the threat of cable TV operators that offer...

RADARSAT-1, a Canadian Earth observation satellite, is completing its ninth year of operation, and it is close to doubling its five-year design life. The spacecraft has delivered precision images and...

The Colorado Springs, Colo.-based Space Foundation is making meaningful personnel changes. It named a new vice president and four new directors to fill newly created and expanded positions. Jim Banke...

Washington, D.C.-based XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] achieved better than expected third quarter results. XM was able to hold its operating costs in check, unlike its New York City-based rival Sirius...

Cyprus-based Columbia Shipman-agement is fitting more than 100 ships with Iridium satellite terminals in a move to comply with SSAS carriage requirements and to reduce ship communication costs. The decision...

Concerns by pessimists that the brisk subscriber growth of U.S. satellite television services is ready to start conking out are contradicted by the continuing surge in sales. Indeed, DirecTV showed...

A launch attempt scheduled for early this morning involving a U.S. Air Force GPS satellite aboard a Boeing [NYSE: BA] Delta II rocket was scrubbed again and will be attempted...

Princeton, N.J.-based SES Americom began offering commercial service on its recently launched AMC-11 satellite at the spacecraft’s orbital position 22,000 miles above North America. Cable programmers now will be better...

The launch of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration‘s Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology (DART) spacecraft aboard an Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] Pegasus XL rocket has been rescheduled for Nov....