Trimble Wins USAF GPS Contracts
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Trimble [Nasdaq: TRMB] has been awarded two contracts from the U.S. Air Force (USAF) to provide Global Positioning System (GPS) surveying and mapping systems. The GPS equipment will...
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Intelsat Extends Expiration Date for Senior Notes Exchange Offer
Intelsat has extended until Jan. 27, 5 p.m. EST, the expiration date of its offer to exchange its 5.25 percent senior notes due 2008 and its 6.5 percent senior notes...
Space Imaging Gets Forest Service Contract
The Denver-based remote sensing firm Space Imaging has received a contract to continue providing geographic information services (GIS) to the U.S. Forest Service‘s regional office in Vallejo, Calif., its Remote...
Netupsat To Use Astra Birds To Offer Internet Service in France
France’s Netupsat has signed an agreement with SES Astra to use the Astra satellite system to provide high-speed Internet services. Labeled “Netbysky,” the high- speed Internet service via Astra’s 19.2-degree...
XM Satellite Radio Prices Public Offering
XM Satellite Radio Holdings [Nasdaq: XMSR] announced Friday that it has priced at $26.50 per share an underwritten public offering of 20 million shares of its Class A common stock,...
USAF Awards Two Transformational Satellite Contracts
The U.S. Air Force‘s Milsatcom Joint Program Office has awarded two risk reduction/system definition contracts for the Transformational Communications Milsatcom (TCM) system to Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Boeing Satellite...
Sarantel Supplies GPS Antennas For UK Emergency System
UK-based antenna supplier Sarantel has been awarded a contract to supply its miniature GPS antenna to communications firm Savox for use in its “track-mate” GPS module. The new track-mate, developed...
OpenTV To Provide Interactive Service Suite To Australia's Foxtel
OpenTV [Nasdaq: OPTV] has signed a definitive agreement to provide Australian satellite and cable TV provider Foxtel with middleware technology and interactive applications that will be integrated into the Foxtel...
Hughes Network Systems Supplies Broadband System To Italy's Wind
Hughes Network Systems (HNS), a satellite and wireless broadband subsidiary of Hughes Electronics [NYSE: HS], has signed an agreement with Italy’s Wind Telecomunicazioni to deploy its AIReach Broadband 9000 wireless...
Sutron Receives Certification for Satellite Transmitter
Sterling, Va.-based Sutron Corp. [OTC BB: STRN] has received certification from the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) for its satellite high data rate DCP transmitter – Satlink...