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Washington, D.C.-based XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] will air Big Ten Conference football along with men’s and women’s basketball games. The move follows an announcement last week by rival Sirius Satellite...

The World Communications Center (WCC) today said it is supplying “hundreds” of its satellite phones that communicate through the Iridium constellation to Florida utilities, county governments, large retail corporations, insurance...

SES Global company SES Astra is continuing its push into Africa with a new agreement with Worldsat, another SES Global company. Worldsat is providing SES Astra with the capacity for...

Ottawa-based Telesat Canada was formed Sept. 1, 1969, as the first operator of a satellite launched to serve a single country. Today, it is blazing the trail to offer high-speed...

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) was selected by the Canadian Space Agency to develop concepts for a follow-on to the Radarsat-2 program. The Radarsat program is designed to provide...

Pegasus Communications Corp. [PGTVE] said that, starting today, the company’s ticker symbol will be followed by an “E,” indicating the company has failed to comply with one of the Nasdaq‘s...

It seems that the U.S Air Force was listening to Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.) when he told attendees at the National Defense Industrial Association Space Symposium in July that there...

A team led by Lockheed Martin [LMT] wants to win a multi-billion contract from the U.S. Navy to provide network-centric capabilities for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), a next-generation...

Pace Micro Technology made a key management appointment as it prepares to become a major player in the Personal Video Recorder (PVR) and High-Definition (HD) space. David Gillies is the...

CapRock Communications today said it acquired Indonesia-based Telematika Java Duta in an effort to bolster the communications services it supplies to remote locations. CapRock noted that Telematika has more than...