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Driven by the desire to reduce launch costs, industry entrepreneurs are aggressively continuing launch vehicle development plans in hopes of ushering in cheaper, more reliable spacecraft that will enable the...

St. Paul, Minn.-based Dart Transit Co. will use Qualcomm Inc.’s [QCOM] OmniTracs satellite-based mobile information management system for its fleet. Financial terms were not disclosed, but Dart Transit is purchasing...

Middletown, R.I.-based KVH Industries Inc. [KVHI] filed suit in U.S. District Court in Rhode Island against in-motion satellite antenna competitor Datron/Transco Inc. [DTSI] for infringing a KVH patent. KVH is...

Fremont, Calif.-based SSE Telecom Inc. [SSET] is shipping additional beta-test systems of its new iP3 broadband satellite Internet gateway platform. The first iP3 beta test systems, shipped by SSET two...

Orbcomm Global L.P. value-added reseller, Intrex Data Communications Corp., of Vancouver, British Columbia, and Dallas, plans to merge with FiberChem Inc. [FOCS] of Las Vegas, Nevada. Financial details were not...

Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] service partner Telecommunications par Satellites Mobiles (TE.SA.M.) opened the newest Globalstar gateway in Los Velasquez, Venezuela, bringing the total number of fully operational gateways to 13. The...

Complaints about a programme on Flextech-owned Bravo were upheld by the ITC this week. Real TV broadcast in October showed a story where a 13 year-old boy died in a...

A major solar flare on February 17 had the potential to do some serious damage to both geostationary and LEO satellites. When the superheated mass, known as a coronal mass,...

Japan Satellite TV (JSTV) the analogue Japanese-language subscription service for expatriate executives living in Europe is to switch from analogue to digital transmission. Digital broadcasts are expected to start in...

Microsoft has confirmed that it will team up with Israel’s Gilat in the latter’s Gilat-To-Home subsidiary, which plans to offer two-way broadband satellite access to consumers. Microsoft will hold 26...