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El Segundo, Calif.-based DirecTV, the largest U.S. satellite television services provider, added to its executive team by naming Richard Slenker to become its executive vice president of technology and engineering...

Satellite Security, a San Diego-based company that provides secure Global Positioning System (GPS) services, has signed a pact to monitor oil tankers for New York-based Metro Fuel Oil. No financial...

The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System (EGNOS), designed to improve the accuracy of satellite global navigation systems, is now undergoing tests prior to service launch in the middle of the...

VIENNA, Va. — U.S.-based Cisco Systems [NYSE: CSCO] and British small satellite manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology have successfully launched and deployed a “router in space.” The Cisco-supplied router is part...

Gilat Satellite Networks [Nasdaq: GILTF], an Israeli-based satellite communications company, has developed a new generation of products called the SkyEdge family. The SkyEdge product family includes a series of VSAT...

Standard Radio, a Toronto-based radio broadcasting company, is the latest partner to team up with New York-based Sirius Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: SIRI] in an attempt to bring satellite radio to...

New Skies Satellites N.V.[AEX, NYSE: NSK], a global satellite communications company based in The Hague, Netherlands, introduced a new teleport in Athens, Greece, to become the company’s primary European gateway...

Lanham, Md.-based Integral Systems [Nasdaq: ISYS] notched a 2.5 percent rise in revenues for the first quarter of fiscal 2004 to reach $20.1 million, up from $19.6 million in the...

Houston-based SPACEHAB‘s [Nasdaq: SPAB] revenue for the second fiscal quarter of 2004, excluding a $17.5 million long-term contract prepayment, decreased by approximately 46 percent from the prior year’s quarterly revenue...

White Plains, N.Y.-based ITT Industries [NYSE: ITT] signed a definitive agreement to purchase the Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) business from Eastman Kodak Co. [NYSE: EK] for $725 million to significantly...