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Trimble [TRMB], a Sunnyvale Calif.-based provider of GPS technology, is going to supply UNAVCO with Global Positioning System (GPS) reference station receivers for at least the next five years. Financial...

ViaSat [VSAT], a Carlsbad, Calif.-based producer of satellite communications, has been awarded a contract by Athens-based gaming company Intralot to provide secure lottery communications applications in Nebraska. Financial terms were...

China Telecommunications Broadcast Satellite (ChinaSAT) has deployed Vyyo wireless broadband in Haikou, the capital of Hainan. Whan Research Institute, one of Vyyo’s system integrators, handled the installation. Haikou, located in...

France-based satellite launch service Arianespace has delayed flight 158 again, this time by several days due to a minor anomaly observed on the thermal protection of the main cryogenic stage...

Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI], a New York City-based satellite-radio provider, will offer around-the-clock traffic and weather reports for the top 20 markets. The reports will begin Feb. 29 with New...

Arianespace‘s Flight 158 scheduled for today was postponed until Friday due to “wind conditions at altitude” affecting the Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The mission is to carry Europe’s Rosetta...

Petah Tikva, Israel-based Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [GILTF], completed a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission review process to let the company acquire all the shares of rStar common stock that...

Jericho, N.Y.-based Rainbow DBS, the satellite division of Cablevision Systems [CVC], announced that the channel lineup for its VOOM service now includes four HBO and Cinemax channels in high-definition (HD),...

Southampton, U.K.-based GlobeCast, a satellite services company, has chosen Tandberg Television as its broadcast equipment provider of choice for this summer’s Olympic games in Athens. Tandberg, a provider of open...

BSkyB, the biggest pay-TV operator in the United Kingdom, has unveiled plans to introduce a number of new mobile sales units to demonstrate the benefits of products such as its...