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EchoStar Signs Another Telco Deal

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 Celebrates Ninth Birthday

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...

Space Foundation Names New VP

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...

XM Outperforms Expectations

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...

Iridium Lands Major Shipping Contract

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...

SES Americom Initiates Service On AMC-11

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...

Fourth Time A Charm For DART?

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....