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Telenor Satellite Services today announced the release of its latest broadband communications package, Sealink Global Access, it says will deliver high-speed global services to the maritime industry. The package includes...

The U.S. military is developing fuel technology to extend the life of its global surveillance satellites. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is working with Proton Energy Systems on...

Princeton, N.J.-based SES Americom, the U.S.-based satellite-operating unit of SES Global [SESG], reached an agreement with Rainbow DBS, Cablevision System‘s [CVC] satellite TV division, to lease 16 transponders during the...

Lockheed Martin [LMT] has begun field installations of its Avionics Modernization Program (AMP) kits into the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of C-5 Galaxy strategic airlifters. Each AMP kit includes a...

Washington, D.C.-based XM Satellite Radio will broadcast live interviews and acoustic sets by artists from the sold-out 2004 Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tenn. From June 11 to June 13,...

Modern Times Group (MTG) says its subsidiary Viasat Broadcasting will launch four new premium TV1000 channels in the Nordic territories. Viasat will broadcast a total of six premium movie channels...

VOOM, the first comprehensive high-definition (HD) satellite television service, will expand its distribution through a new partnership with Crutchfield Corporation, a large consumer-electronics retailer. Beginning this week, more than five...

An improved way to predict the path of severe storms is the impetus behind the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center awarding ITT Industries‘ Aerospace/Communications Division a $20 million contract to...

Hauppauge, N.Y.-based Globecomm Systems [GCOM], a global provider of end-to-end satellite-based communications solutions, was awarded a contract valued at $14.7 million from the Ministry of Communication, Islamic Transitional State of...

Loral Skynet said SkyReach, the company’s Internet Protocol (IP)-enabled service that provides two-way broadband services for secure private networks or high-speed Internet access, now is commercially available throughout the Americas....