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Inmarsat plans to support a new entry-level FleetBroadband terminal, the FB150, developed for the small fishing, leisure and business vessels market from mid-2009, the company announced.     The FB150 terminals […]

The number of subscribers to IPTV services is expected to rise by more than 64 percent in 2008, as revenue generated for telecoms soars by 93.5 percent, according to a […]

[Satellite News 10-08-08] Advancements on DigitalGlobe’s next-generation imagery satellite, WorldView-2, will allow the company to deliver the detailed imagery that is in high demand from its U.S. government customers, especially […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] Solaris Mobile submitted its S-Band spectrum application for harmonized European Union mobile services to the European Commission, the company said Oct. 7. The European Commission launched a […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] Dish Network signed national content and hardware distribution agreements with Pace International and the newly formed Pace CSO Inc., Dish Network announced Oct. 7.      According to […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] ViaSat Inc. is nearly doubling the coverage area for its mobile broadband network by expanding to the North Pacific Ocean region, the company announced Oct. 7.     […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] DataPath Inc. received an order to provide on-site personnel to operate and maintain satellite communications systems managed by the U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, DataPath announced […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] DigitalGlobe has signed a multi-year contract with Microsoft Corp. to provide the software giant’s Virtual Earth program with DigitalGlobe satellite and aerial imagery, the companies announced Oct. […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] C-Com Satellite Systems Inc. reported revenues of 2.4 million Canadian dollars ($2.2 million) for its third quarter ending Aug. 31, 2008 and a net income of 780,622 […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] Tesacom, Stratos Global and Addvalue Communications joined forces to deploy a 1,200-site Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) mobile satellite network to support the first round of Brazil’s […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] Norsat International Inc. is set to launch its new miniaturized Ku-band block up-converter (BUC), the company announced Oct. 7.     The product is packaged in a 3-kilogram […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] Bharti Airtel, an Indian telco, will launch its DTH service, Airtel Digital TV, in India before the end of the week, the company said Oct. 7.     […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] Vizada said that its Iridium sales have spiked 70 percent over the past month due to the new batch activation capability now available for Iridium subscribers using […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] A consolidated securities class action lawsuit against Globalstar Inc. and its officers was dismissed Sept. 30 by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New […]

[Satellite News 10-07-08] Tesacom, Stratos Global and Addvalue Communications delivered the largest single contract for the purchase of Inmarsat Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) services to Brazilian regional elections in […]

[Satellite Today 10-06-08] The U.S. Supreme Court refused to overturn a $74 million judgment against Dish Network for violating a patent held by TiVo involving digital video recorders (DVR).     […]

[Satellite Today 10-06-08] Arianespace and Eutelsat Communications confirmed the upcoming launch of Eutelsat’s Hot Bird 9 and W2M Ku-band satellites will take place in the last week of November.     […]

[Satellite Today 10-06-08] The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which serves 356 public television stations in the United States, has transitioned its complete programming lineup to the AMC-21 satellite, SES Americom […]

[Satellite Today 10-06-08] Eutelsat is making progress with its consumer satellite broadband service in Spain.     The operator said Oct. 3. that Telecable is initiating deployment of the Tooway satellite […]

[Satellite Today 10-06-08] ViaSat Inc. and Lufthansa Technik (LHT) have teamed up to offer a broadband IP networking and entertainment system for business aircraft, ViaSat announced Oct 6.     The […]

[Satellite Today 10-06-08] Harris Corp. introduced what it claims to be the first tactical satellite terminals with the capability of transmission and reception of top-secret global wideband data communications, the […]

[Satellite Today 10-06-08] EMS Satcom unveiled a new high-gain antenna, the AMT-700, EMS announced Oct. 6.     The AMT-700 is designed to maximize data throughput and system capacity of its […]

[Satellite Today 10-06-08] Serbia Broadband, the largest pay-TV operator in Serbia, is hoping to launch DTH services in other Eastern European markets such as Bosnia and Croatia in the near […]

[Satellite News 10-06-08] Serbia Broadband is the largest pay-TV operator in Serbia and one of a growing number of operators offerings services on multiple infrastructures. The operator started life as […]

Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] broke ground on a new facility at Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, the first building in Wallops Research Park. The research Park is […]

NASA awarded five-year grants, averaging $7 million each, to 10 research teams from across the country to study the origins, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. The […]

The Messenger spacecraft today will fly by Mercury on a photography mission, the second of three flybys of the planet closest to the sun, NASA announced. Messenger will photograph most […]

Russia is delivering 18 more Smerch multiple rocket launch systems to India, RIA Novosti reported. Rosoboronexport is working under a deal with India reached when the Russian defense minister visited […]

NASA Gives Boeing $650 Million Contract Change For Space Station Support NASA awarded a two-year, $650 million contract extension to The Boeing Co. [BA] to continue engineering support of the […]

Updated — September 29 – 2:20 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2008 Launches Date: October + Mission: TacSat-3 Launch Vehicle: […]