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ICO Global Communications, the troubled London-based mobile satellite startup, appears poised to jumpstart its delayed service launch by agreeing to pay $55 million to buy a controlling interest in the...

Gilat Satellite Networks [Nasdaq: GILTF] has been selected by China Telecommunications to provide a large-scale, satellite-based rural telephony network in Tibet. China Telecom will make an initial purchase of a...

The community of Coffman Cove, Alaska, has selected SkyFrames [OTC Bulletin Board: SKYU] to install and coordinate the implementation of a satellite broadband network that will provide a 2-mile broadband...

Maqsat, a Dutch satellite communications provider, has joined the Europe*Star gateway program. The program, consisting of network providers, national telecom providers and independent teleport operations, provides access to Europe*Star’s satellites....

Revenues generated by Canadian firms in providing direct-to-home (DTH) satellite TV and multipoint distribution system (MDS) services have soared since 1998, according to statistics released recently by the Canadian Radio-television...

Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has been awarded a contract by Japan’s JSAT Corp. to build an A2100 geostationary telecommunications satellite. Financial terms were not disclosed. The satellite, designated JCSAT-9, will...

Marlink has signed a three-year agreement with Kyma Ship Management, of Miami, Fla., to provide satellite communications onboard the TSS Topaz cruise ship. The vessel will be under charter for...

SI International [Nasdaq: SINT], a Reston, Va.-based provider of information technology and space system products and services, has been awarded a contract with a potential value of $24 million to...

Dulles, Va.-based Orbital Sciences Corporation [NYSE: ORB] successfully launched the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite April 28 aboard the company’s Pegasus rocket. The 312-kilogram...

Launch of the AMC-9 satellite has been delayed by about 30 days after the April 26 planned lift-off was postponed due to a technical problem with a component on the...