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EchoStar, EarthLink Partner On TV/Internet Package

Littleton, Colo-based EchoStar Communication Corp. [Nasdaq: DISH] and Atlanta-based EarthLink [Nasdaq: ELNK], the nation’s third-largest Internet service provider, have agreed to team up to bundle EchoStar’s DISH Network digital satellite...

Space Imaging Refocuses

Space Imaging will be pursuing future opportunities with 65 fewer employees after layoffs there last Thursday. The company’s board of directors approved the cuts and also backed plans to secure...

Columbia's Satellite Impact Limited

The dramatic impact of the Challenger explosion on the U.S. launch and satellite industries will not be repeated in the aftermath of the Columbia disaster, experts say. When the Challenger...

Satellites Can Rise Above Disaster

By Joe Pelton The recent Columbia disaster, as tragic as it was, has highlighted the danger of the U.S. relying too heavily on the space shuttle for access to space....

Loral Faces Damages Claim Of $350 Million

New York’s Loral Space & Communications [LOR] is acknowledging for the first time that claims against it by France-based Alcatel Space could have a “material” impact on its financial picture....

New Skies To Relocate Satellite

New Skies Satellites N.V. [NSK], a global satellite operator based in the Hague, the Netherlands, plans to change the orbital assignment for its yet-to-be launched NSS-8 satellite. The spacecraft originally...

Livanos Joins Northrop Grumman

Alexis Livanos is leaving his position as an executive vice president of Boeing Satellite Systems division to join Northop Grumman [NOC]. In his post as vice president of program operations...