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By Adam D. Thierer Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has introduced an important new bill dealing with the digital television (DTV) transition that will have direct impact on the satellite industry....

New York City-based AirTV’s search for funding did not stop the startup from signing a launch services agreement with Arianespace last week, with the first launch scheduled for 2007. The...

Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI], the higher priced of two U.S.-based satellite radio services, took the unusual step of issuing a press release last week to put a positive spin on...

By Paul Dykewicz PanAmSat President and CEO Joseph Wright, noted for his financial conservatism and cost-cutting, recently told me he isn’t worried at all about taking on a large debt...

Satellite Today has learned that the European Space Agency‘s European Space Research and Technology Center is testing the design-worthiness of an experimental Galileo satellite built by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd....

Modern Times Group, (MTG), the owner of the Viasat direct-to-home (DTH) platform, is claiming a key victory over its Nordic DTH rival Canal Digital. It just announced that its application...

CapRock Communications is the primary corporate sponsor of a project headed by a team of students at the University of Louisiana that is preparing to send a picosatellite (a small...

The Boeing Co. [BA] has made some aggressive moves in targeting work from the U.S. Department of Defense, demonstrating a new mobile theater-of-operations directional communications technology that can give soldiers...

ATK [ATK] completed its acquisition of the PSI Group following a review of the transaction by the Federal Trade Commission. PSI is a components designer and manufacturer for military and...

SKY Television of New Zealand signed a five-year deal with New Zealand Cricket that gives it exclusive rights to all international and domestic cricket games until 2009. John Fellet, SKY...