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Echostar Communications Corp., raised $1.5 billion through a private debt placement, the company announced Jan. 20. Proceeds of the offering by the Echostar DBS Corp. subsidiary will be used to […]

NASA‘s New Horizons mission began its nine-year flight to Pluto after two days of delays. The satellite was launched aboard an International Launch Services Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral […]

German-based ND Satcom, a global supplier of satellite-based broadband VSAT, broadcast and defense communication network solutions, has seen the market’s demand for meshed and hybrid network topologies. According to the […]

Bill Page, appointed vice president, broadcast sales, will head its new broadcast business division in Herndon, VA. Prior to joining Vocality, Page was at Brightstar Communications, Voyager and Reuters Television. […]

Kurt Pauwels, managing director of Belgian direct-to-home (DTH) provider TV Vlaanderen believes 2006 will be a “breakthrough” year for digital television in the country. The new DTH operator launched digital […]

SES Astra signed an agreement with Top TV, a free-to-air leisure and shopping channel in the Czech Republic, to provide for digital capacity on Astra 2C, SES announced Jan. 19. […]

Spot Image Corp., the U.S. marketing arm of France’s Spot Image, has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for the purchase of satellite imagery products and […]

Echostar Communications Corp. filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission Jan. 19 to offer $1 billion in debt securities. The proceeds of the offering, being conducted by […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) signed a 950 million euro ($1.2 billion) contract with Galileo Industries GmbH for the development and in-orbit validation of the Galileo satellite navigation constellation’s first […]

The launch of NASA‘s New Horizons mission to Pluto was delayed for the second straight day after NASA’s mission control center at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory lost power […]

Radyne Corp. named Carl Myron Wagner president and COO effective Jan. 30, the company announced. Wagner also is a candidate for CEO, Radyne said. Brian Duggan, who has served as […]

iDirect Technologies, a division of Vision Technologies Systems Inc., and Globecomm Systems Inc. have deployed their first hub intended specifically to support GSM networks over satellite, the companies said. The […]

Telesat Canada awarded a contract to EADS Astrium to build the Nimiq 4 direct broadcast satellite, the companies announced. The spacecraft, based on the E3000 platform, will carry 32 Ku-band […]

Spacedev Inc. raised gross proceeds of about $5.2 million through the sale of convertible preferred stock and warrants to a small syndicate of new and existing institutional investors, the company […]

Pace Micro Technology had a difficult second half of 2005, recording a loss of 8.9 million British pounds ($15.7 million) for the 26 weeks which ended Dec 3. At the […]

The launch of NASA’s New Horizons mission to Pluto was delayed 24 hours due to high winds at the launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The launch […]

According to press reports in the United Kingdom, NTL is moving closer to agreeing a deal to takeover Virgin Mobile in a 961 million British pounds ($1.7 billion) deal. The […]

Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. (CSR), which offers satellite radio service under the XM Canada brand, lost Cdn. $14.6 million ($12.6 million) in its first quarter due to expenses incurred […]

Xtar LLC received a five-year contract from Hisdesat Servicios Estratégicos S.A. to provide the Royal Danish Navy (RDN) with X-band communications services via the Xtar-Eur satellite, Xtar announced Jan. 17. […]

Liberty Syndicates, a subsidiary of Liberty Mutual Group, and Sciemus unveiled a new satellite insurance offering intended to save money for “good” satellite operators, the companies announced. The companies plan […]

The editors of Access Intelligence’s Via Satellite magazine selected Jean-Yves Le Gall, CEO, Arianespace SA, as its Satellite Executive of the Year 2005. In its 18th year, the award honors […]

Mediaset SpA has agreed to sell satellite TV broadcasting rights for one of Italy’s top soccer teams to Sky Italia, according to media reports. Sky Italia, a unit of News […]

Echostar Communications Corp. announced Jan. 16 that Oxygen Media, a U.S. woman-owned and -operated TV network, is now available on Dish Network. Dish entered into a multi-year agreement to offer […]

The Galileo In Orbit Validation Elements-A (GIOVE-A) test satellite began transmitting signals Jan. 12, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Alcatel Alenia Space announced. GIOVE-A, launched in December, was built […]

International Launch Services (ILS) received a contract from Telesat to launch the Nimiq 4 satellite on a Proton Breeze M vehicle, ILS announced Jan. 17. Financial terms were not disclosed. […]

The Export and Import Bank of China announced Jan. 13 that it would provide $200 million in credit to Nigeria to support construction of the country’s first communications satellite project, […]

16ndriving.com Inc. unveiled a specialized GPS tracking system that will be marketed to parents of teenage drives, the company announced Jan. 11. Littlebrother is a small GPS satellite tracking device […]

Dara Altman has been named executive vice president of business and legal affairs of XM Satellite Radio, the company announced Jan. 12. Altman will oversee several departments, including new business […]

Sky Italia, which is preparing to launch personal video recorder (PVR) services in Italy, selected Pace Micro Technology to provide the set-top box provider for the new MySky service. Pace […]

Orbimage finalized its acquisition of rival Space Imaging, creating an imagery satellite operator dubbed Geoeye that will operate a pair of spacecraft capable of producing high-resolution images with a third […]