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Miramar, Fla.-based Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN) has recapitalized barely more than a year after it was acquired for $30 million by New York-based investment firm Falconhead Capital during February last...

Richard Halka, the executive vice president and CFO of Stratos Global Corp. [SGB], is leaving the company to pursue other opportunities. In his absence, Paula Sturge, the company’s vice president...

NDS said it successfully completed the first phase of systems integration for Foxtel Digital in Australia. Foxtel launched its new digital TV service — Foxtel Digital — March 14, and...

The European Union reached an agreement for Israel to participate in building the Galileo global navigation system to rival the U.S.-based Global Positioning System (GPS). Financial terms were not disclosed....

Raytheon Co. [RTN] said the U.S. Navy Space and Warfare Command exercised a production option on its contract with Raytheon. The pact calls for Raytheon to produce 41 extra-high-frequency satellite...

Integral Systems Inc. [ISYS] executives said today the company signed a contract with PanAmSat to migrate PanAmSat’s three Boeing Satellite System 702 birds from their current ground control software system...

New Skies Satellites N.V. [NSK] officials said today the company has signed an agreement with Microspace Communications to broadcast video, audio and data content throughout Latin America from its NSS-806...

The World Broadcasting Unions International Satellite Operations Group (WBU-ISOG) unanimously approved a set of Universal Access Procedures (UAP) for all satellite uplinks, aimed at significantly reducing satellite interference. The WBU-ISOG...

The Boeing Company [BA] announced the sale of Boeing Digital Cinema assets to Access Integrated Technologies [AIX] of Morristown, N.J. Boeing Integrated Defense Systems sold the digital cinema equipment assets,...

San Jose, Calif.-based semiconductor manufacturer Atmel [ATML] and Paris-based Parrot, a voice technologies company released the Parrot4 chipset to support in-vehicle Global Positioning System (GPS) and GSM/GPRS services. The new...