Arianespace Flight 158 Postponed Again
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...
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Sirius To Provide Traffic and Weather Service
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 Postpones Rosetta Mission One Day Due To Weather
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...
Gilat Clears Way To Acquire Remaining rStar Shares
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...
VOOM Lineup Grows To More Than 30 HD Channels and 70-plus Channels Overall
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),...
Tandberg Scores Exclusive Deal With GlobeCast For 2004 Olympic Games
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 Goes Mobile To Boost Sales
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...
Pennsylvania Attorney General Pappert Sues N.J. Satellite TV Company
Pennsylvania Attorney General Jerry Pappert has filed a lawsuit against two New Jersey-based companies and their owner. The lawsuit accuses them of illegally contacting dozens of consumers whose names and...
Ericsson and Econet Sign $110 Million GSM Contract
Ericsson [ERICY], a Charlotte, N.C.-based wireless communication company, and Econet Wireless Nigeria have signed an expansion GSM contract valued at $110 million. A first phase of the project is underway...
AIA Unveils New Five-year Research And Development Plan
The Washington-based Aerospace Industries Association unveiled its second five-year research and development plan aimed at urging the Bush administration to develop a vision for aerospace similar to the one recently...