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If you live in the United States, there is a good chance you bought one of the estimated 1.6 billion movie tickets that were sold here last year. At the...

by Carissa Bryce Christensen Recent world events demonstrate U.S. dependence on space for executing military operations. U.S. national security space spending will dominate the space industry for the immediate future...

by James Careless When disaster strikes anywhere in the United States, the American Red Cross (ARC) springs into action. Within hours, its highly-trained professionals arrive on the scene, coordinating rescue...

People NEW SKIES: Appoints Sales Director New Skies Satellites N.V. appointed Jurandir Pitsch sales director for the company’s commercial activities in Brazil and the Mercosur region of Latin America. He...

Sapias, a San Francisco, Calif.-based provider of asset management products, has selected TechnoCom’s enterprise technology for its fleet intelligence platform, an end-to-end resource management platform for enterprise fleets. Los Angeles-based...

Santanu Dutta has joined Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV), a Reston, Va.-based provider of mobile satellite communications services, as vice president of systems engineering. Dutta will be responsible for the system...

Harold Rosen will be inducted May 3 into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his work developing the world’s first 24-hour communication satellite. Rosen is a consultant and former...

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....

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...

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...