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[Satellite Today 10-16-08] Pace CEO Neil Gaydon expects the company’s standard-definition (SD) set-top box business to decline as more pay-TV operators move to high definition (HD), personal video recorders and […]

[Satellite Today 10-16-08] Wegener Corp. unveiled its Nielsen SpoTTrac Digital encoder product for Nielsen Co., Wegener announced Oct. 15.      SpoTTrac Digital is an encoding and watermarking solution that enables […]

[Satellite Today 10-16-08] Newtec received a contract from Gateway Communications to provide an end-to-end IP trunking solution to increase the bandwidth efficiency of its intercontinental data links between Europe and […]

[Satellite Today 10-16-08] Panasonic Avionics Corp. awarded a contract to EMS Technologies Inc. for antennas for Panasonic’s eXConnect inflight broadband system, EMS announced Oct. 15.     Under the agreement, EMS […]

[Satellite Today 10-16-08] Orbital Sciences Corp. revenues remained relatively flat in the 2008 third quarter, as profits slipped from $15.7 million a year ago to $12.1 million in the most […]

[Satellite Today 10-16-08] DirecTV will use MPEG-4 AVC HD encoding solutions from Tandberg Television to expand local high-definition (HD) channel expansion, Tandberg announced Oct. 16.     DirecTV will use Tandberg’s […]

[Satellite Today 10-16-08] Norsat International Inc. has established a WiMax business unit to address the market for satellite-enabled WiMax opportunities in emerging markets throughout Asia, Africa and South America, the […]

[Satellite News 1016-08] U.K.-based set-top box vendor Pace is trying to transform itself into a company that could play an integral role in the networked home of the future, CEO […]

[Satellite Today 8-15-08] Premiere, the German pay-TV operator, has hired a slew of executives from Sky Italia, as it looks to turn around its fortunes in Germany, in the wake […]

[Satellite Today 8-15-08] Tandberg Television is introducing a new cable HD program transcoder that will enable programmers to harness the bandwidth efficiencies of MPEG-4 AVC HD and DVB-S2 (Digital Video […]

[Satellite Today 8-15-08] International Datacasting Corp. (IDC) signed cross-licensing agreements with Doremi Cinema LLC enabling the use of leading edge 3D live technology from Sensio Technologies in Doremi playback servers, […]

[Satellite Today 10-14-08] Globecomm Systems introduced a 1.2-meter X-band auto-acquisition satellite terminal as part of its Auto-Explorer system, the company announced Oct. 14. The system provides government and military customers […]

[Satellite Today 10-14-08] C-Com Satellite Systems Inc. unveiled its latest iNetVu antenna system, the iNetVu 1.2-meter flyaway, the company announced Oct. 14. The ruggedized suitcase-based system has been designed to […]

[Satellite Today 10-14-08] Norsat International Inc. has expanded its line of high stability Ku-band low noise block down-converters (LNBs), the company announced Oct. 14.     Norsat had added the HS […]

[Satellite Today 8-15-08]  Intelsat Ltd. appointed Peter Ostapiuk North American cable and emerging media regional vice president, the company announced Oct. 13. Ostapiuk replaces Tim Jackson, who now serves as […]

[Satellite News 10-15-08] The discussion between financial analysts and satellite executives at the ISIS Satellite Investment Symposium was dominated by talk of the recent financial crisis on Wall Street.     […]

[Satellite Today 10-14-08] Ondas Media signed a commercial agreement with BMW Group to install satellite radio receivers in its vehicles in Europe, Ondas said Oct. 13.     The deal, which […]

[Satellite Today 10-14-08] ViaSat Inc. has been awarded a $1.5 million order to manufacture KG-200 and KG-201 In-Line Media Encryptors (IME) for the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), ViaSat announced […]

[Satellite Today 10-14-08] Thaicom’s plans in the Australian broadband market have been boosted by the news that a number of IPStar partners have been selected to be part of the […]

[Satellite Today 10-14-08] Avanti Communications signed a contract to provide broadband services to Prime Satellite Broadband (PSB), a provider of satellite broadband services in Western Europe, Avanti announced Oct. 14. […]

[Satellite Today 10-14-08] Measat Satellite Systems and Sky Channel signed an agreement for Sky Channel to use the Measat-3 satellite to broadcast horse races, the companies announced Oct. 13.     […]

[Satellite Today 10-14-08] Intelsat signed a multi-year contract with Mobil Satellite Technologies and a multi-year extension with Vista Satellite Communications Inc., Intelsat announced Oct. 14.     Mobil Satellite Technologies, a […]

[Satellite News 10-14-08] The rebuilding of Iraq’s communications infrastructure topped the agenda at Iraq Telecoms 2008, and satellite is one of six main areas the Iraqi government is focusing on […]

NASA scientists have gone backwards to progress, finding an old Apollo spacecraft heat shield hidden away in Smithsonian Institution archives that can yield secrets for designing the next-generation Orion space […]

A full-scale model of the James Webb Space telescope today goes on display at a museum in Germany, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. The full-scale model will remain on display […]

The Laser Guided Rocket (LGR) passed a wind tunnel test, Raytheon Co. [RTN] reported. That tunnel operation produced both high fidelity flight simulations and data for developing the aerodynamic model […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] delivered the core structure including a propulsion subsystem for the first Navy Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite, the company announced today. It is the largest […]

Defense spending on weapons systems may not plummet in the next several years, despite some pundits asserting that huge federal budget deficits, an imploding economy and nosediving federal revenues mean […]

Space Systems/Loral Gains Contract To Provide Satellite For SES SES, the European satellite operator, will buy another Loral satellite. Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications [LORL] […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] completed final testing on the SES New Skies NSS-9 commercial communications satellite, the company announced. The engineering team completed pre-shipment procedures for the satellite, which will […]