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Many satellite operators view Africa as a potential growth market. Last month, SES Astra announced that it was extending its provision of state-of-the-art satellite services to the entire African continent...

Asset tracking is a key “remote application” outside the mainstream wireless markets of voice, data and now video. To the companies that offer the service, including wireless and satellite providers,...

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based unit of Lockheed Martin [LMT], won the biggest U.S. military satellite communications pact that likely will be awarded during the next two...

Wall Street analysts are offering a consensus estimate that Washington, D.C.-based XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] will pre-announce that it amassed in the neighborhood of 430,000 third-quarter net new subscribers. That...

Ottawa, Canada-based NAV Canada reached an agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration to extend the benefits of satellite-navigation technology to all aircraft operators that fly in Canadian airspace. The agreement...

The Republic of Azerbaijan is the newest member of the Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications. Initially Intersputnik had nine member countries. Now that Azerbaijan has joined the organization, the...

Englewood, Colo.-based EchoStar Communications Corporation‘s [DISH] DISH Network satellite-television service expanded the number of markets in which it offers local channels to 150 last week when it added Terre Haute,...

Washington-based WorldSpace filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch and operate the AfriStar-2 satellite and to co-locate it at 21º East with the company’s AfriStar-1 satellite....

Columbia Communications Corporation, a SES Americom acquisition, filed an amendment with the FCC to its pending application for modification of the AMC-12 satellite at 37.5º West. The amendment provides new...

WB Holdings 1 LLC, an affiliated organization of fledgling satellite broadband service WildBlue, filed a request for Special Temporary Authority to operate its Ka-band payload (29250 MHz-30000 MHz, 8350 MHz-28600...