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Benjamin Franklin once said, in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. If he were alive today, he may have added that nothing is certain but death, taxes...

A migration to advanced encoding solutions looms. To what solution and exactly when this might happen are the questions of the moment. Stunning results at lower bit rates have started...

By Kelly Holder Back in the 1990s money, along with champagne, was flowing through the halls of launch vehicle companies and the global satellite industry at large. Times were good....

by Owen D. Kurtin In the resurgent economy, the satellite sector has a chance to take off as never before, as investment capital that has stayed on the sidelines for...

People ALCATEL: Appoints Vice President Nicolas de Ledinghen was named vice president of the Navigation and Aeronautical Communications Business Unit of Alcatel Space. He is in charge of all activities...

New York City-based technology firm On2 Technologies [ONT] signed a contract with China Netcom Communication International Corporation (CNC) to use On2’s VP6.2 video codec and TrueCast servers to broadcast video...

Petah Tikvah, Israel-based Gilat Satellite‘s [GILTF] Spacenet subsidiary in McLean, Va., was chosen by the American Municipal Power Ohio (AMP-Ohio) to provide a high-speed VSAT network. Spacenet Connextar service will...

EchoStar Communications Corp. [DISH] executives said the company’s Dish Network direct-to- home satellite service would begin offering local television channels to subscribers in Green Bay, Wis., and in Lincoln, Hastings...

DirecTV [DTV] and SatMex Maximo jointly announced that Canal 22, a Mexico-based network for news, movies and documentaries, would be added to the DirecTV Para Todos platform this month. Para...

Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI] said the company raised $50 million from the sale of 2.5-percent convertible notes to Morgan Stanley & Co. Each $1,000 note will be convertible, at the...