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High-definition broadcaster HDNet has selected PanAmSat [Nasdaq: SPOT] to provide satellite delivery of its high-definition television (HDTV) content to its cable and direct broadcast satellite (DBS) providers throughout North America....

EMS Technologies [Nasdaq: ELMG] announced a series of deals in conjunction with the SATELLITE 2003 conference this past week in Washington, D.C. Among the announcements, EMS hardware will be part...

Global Positioning System servicesprovider FleetBoss Global Positioning Solutions has been granted use and ownership of the slogan, “We Are GPS,” by the U.S. Patent Office. GPS technology is used in...

Canadian firm Norsat International [Nasdaq: NSAT] (Burnaby, British Columbia) has deployed three Norsat NewsLink portable satellite terminals in Kuwait. The units, two of which were purchased by New York City-based...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -Large satellite operators looking for merger partners are unlikely to forge deals anytime soon. For example, Eutelsat’s shareholders appear content to wait until valuations rise before considering the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -The troubled economy in Latin America has not deterred a number of satellite operators in that marketplace from making strategic plans to invest heavily to grow their services...

By Marc A. De Simone Satellite industry executives likely remember the increased demand on their services and the strain on their employees immediately after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11,...

Redmond, Wash.-based Advanced Digital Information Corp. [ADIC], a provider of storage management software, is helping the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS)...

By W.L. Pritchard & Co. Commercial satellite operators plan significant expansion of Ka-band satellite capacity during the next three years, with some 20 satellites under construction. The first steps in...

Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat is planning to seek permission from the European Commission to forego an initial public stock offering (IPO) that the company otherwise would need to complete by...