Telesat Selects ILS To Launch Anik F1R Bird
BCE [NYSE: BCE] subsidiary Telesat Canada has signed a contract with International Launch Services to launch its new Anik F1R satellite aboard a Russian Proton M/Breeze M rocket in 2005....
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EMS Technologies, Stratos Partner To Serve Truckers
EMS Technologies [Nasdaq: ELMG] has signed an agreement that makes Stratos [Toronto: SGB] a principal reseller to the trucking industry of EMS’ (Atlanta) suite of satellite communications terminals. With the...
Sea Launch To Resume Launches
Sea Launch said Thursday that it is ready to resume satellite launches following completion of the Sea Launch Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB) investigation into the failure of the ILS...
Gilat Completes Nicaraguan Satellite Telephony Network
Gilat Satellite Networks [Nasdaq: GILTF] has deployed a fixed rural satellite telephony network for Empresa Nicaraguense de Telecomunicaciones (Enitel) to serve 170 communities throughout Nicaragua. The new Enitel network, based...
ESA To Launch Mars Probe From Baikonur In June
Mars Express, the European Space Agency‘s first spacecraft developed for a mission to the planet Mars, has completed its tests at Toulouse, France. After six months of extensive thermal environmental,...
Chinese Satellite TV Manufacturer Selects Demodulator for New Receiver
Zarlink Semiconductor [NYSE: ZL] won a contract to provide its MT312 demodulator chip for a new digital set-top box satellite receiver manufactured by Chinese satellite TV equipment company FuZhou ZhuoYi...
Intelsat Defends DoD Satellite Procurement Process
Responding to complaints of favoritism in the Department of Defense‘s commercial satellite service procurement process, Intelsat told the General Accounting Office that a contract it received to provide satellite transponder...
ViaSat Receives Order From Connexion By Boeing
Connexion, a business unit of Boeing [NYSE: BA], is tasking ViaSat [Nasdaq: VSAT] to develop airborne receive and transmit subsystems [ARTS] for its in-flight communications system for aircraft. For the...
Sears Launches In-Store HDTV Broadcast Platform Using DISH Network
Premier Retail Networks (PRN) plans to deliver high-definition TV programming to 870 Sears‘ in-store television broadcast platforms using EchoStar Communications [Nasdaq: DISH] DISH Network Business Solutions as the satellite delivery...
Integral Sells Satellite Image System to NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has purchased Integral’s [Nasdaq: ISYS] SKYLIGHT ground terminal system for receiving and processing satellite Earth science data. The system includes a receiver and data...