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By Maury Mechanick As the satellite industry emerges from its most recent downturn, a number of new opportunities and threats loom on the horizon. Among these, voice over Internet Protocol...

Despite bankruptcy at its parent company, Space Systems/ Loral (SS/L) has picked up some key satellite manufacturing orders recently, most notably in October from DirecTV. The turnaround has clearly been...

Week of Jan. 30 – Feb. 5, 2004 Percentage Change Symbol Feb. 5 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 2.41 (12.7)...

Mayflower Communications, a Burlington, Mass.-based developer of GPS and communication data link technologies, has been awarded a small business innovation research Phase III contract totaling $10.4 million from the Naval...

President Bush’s fiscal year 2005 budget contains a $59.8 billion request for information technology spending, an increase of less than 1 percent over the previous year’s request, indicating a major...

Engineered Support Systems‘ [Nasdaq: EASI] subsidiary Technical and Management Services Corp. (TAMSCO) of Calverton, Md., has been awarded a contract to support Iraq’s Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in command and...

A number of consortia have been short-listed for the Galileo satellite navigation system concession. One consortium is led by Alcatel [NYSE: ALA] and includes Finmeccanica and VICNI Concessions. Another consortium...

International Launch Services launched the AMC-10 satellite Thursday at 6:46 p.m. (EST) on board an Atlas IIAS rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The satellite is an A2100 model, built by...

The Canadian Space Agency and Industry Canada announced Friday that they will develop a multipurpose satellite called CASSIOPE, which will require the building of a satellite platform adaptable for a...

The story on EchoStar’s new Spanish-language programming in the Feb. 4 issue of SATELLITE TODAY misspelled the name of the country Colombia. We regret the error.