Stratos Loses CFO
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...
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NDS Completes Foxtel System Integration
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...
Israel Commits To Europe's Galileo Project
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....
U.S. Navy Exercises $26.9 Million Raytheon Option
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...
PanAmSat Consolidates Control Of Satellites With Partner
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 Provides Microspace With Satellite Transmission Services
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...
World Broadcasting Unions Battle Satellite Interference
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...
Boeing Sells Digital Cinema To Access Integrated
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,...
Atmel, Parrot Release GPS-Support Chipset
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...
WorldSpace Names New Managing Director
WorldSpace Satellite Radio officials named Hamza Farooqui as managing director of WorldSpace South Africa. He will be responsible for driving the growth of WorldSpace Satellite Radio service in the African...