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Polsat and the largest Polish computer company Optimus have formed a new e-commerce venture. The two companies each have 50 per cent of the shares in eMarket, which will operate...

A Polish court has found that public broadcaster TVP cannot after all take a stake in the Cyfra+ digital satellite platform. The court was ruling on a complaint from TVP...

Disney Channel UK has confirmed it will launch ‘Toon Disney’, already a popular channel in the United States, this autumn on SkyDigital and digital cable. It will form part of...

Alcatel Space announced that it has completed and delivered to Hughes Space and Communications the first of two communications payloads for the two XM Satellite Radio spacecraft. The second payload...

Cosmonauts Sergei Zaletin and Alexander Kalery have found at least one air leak in the Mir Space Station after two weeks of tests on board the Russian laboratory. Although ground...

Energy Conversion Devices Inc. [ENER] announced that it has been awarded a $750,000, two-year, cost-sharing contract by the U.S. Air Force to further advance its proprietary photovoltaic (PV) space technology....

Members of the Sea Launch Failure Review Oversight Board met the week of April 16 to hear briefings from the independent teams that are investigating the March 12 launch failure....

One of the ways to boost subscriber rates in business is to offer service to the mass public. Recognizing this potential, XM Satellite Radio [XMSR], one of the two companies...

While Spot Image Corp. refocuses its business model in part to become more Internet savvy, the Raleigh, N.C.-based Aerial Images Inc., operator of TerraServer.com already is providing an Internet portal...

Intelsat demonstrated an advanced interactive, multimedia, Ku-band satellite terminal that combines digital video and Internet Protocol (IP) traffic into a single data stream at the ITU Americas Telecom conference and...