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The departure of Satlynx CEO Yves Elsen was “a bit of a blow,” admitted Robert Feierbach, vice president of corporate and direct-to-home (DTH) services. The European satellite broadband venture, however,...

Europe*Star expects a significant increase in its revenues over the next 18 months in light of the recent settlement of litigation problems between owners Alcatel [NYSE: ALA] and Loral Space...

SnapTrack, a subsidiary of Qualcomm [Nasdaq: QCOM], and Motorola [NYSE: MOT] have agreed to provide CDMA carrier China Unicom [NYSE: CHU] with SnapTrack’s assisted GPS location server platforms. SnapTrack’s position...

According to a report by Datamonitor, satellite’s days as the largest digital TV platform in Europe are numbered. In a new research report titled “Beyond the STB: new device and...

While other satellite operators are showing little, if any, growth, Paris-based Eutelsat is looking forward to posting positive numbers for its fiscal year. When Interspace Senior Editor Mark Holmes spoke...

BSkyB has won a key football broadcast rights deal in the United Kingdom alongside the BBC. BSkyB has signed a new domestic deal with the English Football Association that shares...

93.5 degreesE: Insat 3A D India’s Doordarshan Maharashtra service has launched on 3960 MHz vertical, SR 5000, FEC 3/4, VPID 1110, APID 1211 in free-to-air MPEG-2. This service is for...

Los Angeles-based Mentat announced Tuesday the availability of SkyX Gateway firmware version 4.0, incorporating Web Prefetch functionality for faster downloads of Web content over satellite links. Benchmark testing demonstrates that...

SpaceDev [OTC BB: SPDV] has been awarded a contract to develop micro- and nano-satellite bus and subsystem designs for the U.S. Air Force. This Air Force Research Laboratory Small Business...

Israel’s Gilat Satellite Networks [Nasdaq: GILTF] has named Bill Gerety as the new CEO of its Spacenet subsidiary. Gerety takes over from Nick Supron, who served as Spacenet’s CEO for...