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Boeing Co.‘s government launch services business faces short-term and potentially long-term delays as the company’s union machinists went on strike Nov. 3. The strike could push back the three remaining […]

The Canadian Space Agency‘s Radarsat-1 satellite celebrated its 10th anniversary Nov. 4. The satellite, launched Nov. 4, 1995 and expected to operate only five years, has flown nearly 2.4 million […]

No one is ready to call Space Communication Corp.‘s (SCC) awarding of the Superbird-7 contract to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Melco) the beginning of a major shift in the satellite manufacturing […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) is leading an initiative to help preserve the Earth’s wetlands using satellite-based observation data. Global wetlands, which sustain the most biologically diverse ecosystems around the […]

Since being founded by a consortium of national telecommunications operators in 1997, Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Co. has built itself into a $1 billion regional mobile satellite telecommunications satellite system. Nearly […]

Spacedev Inc. closed the sale of $2.5 million of securities to Laurus Master Fund Ltd., the company announced Nov. 2. The proceeds from the sale will provide working capital, including […]

Harris Corp. introduced a new XTCE database converter for the company’s OS/Comet satellite command and control suite of products. The new database allows users to translate databases in XTCE to […]

Delphi Corp. delivered the first shipment of the new DS300 satellite transceiver modem to Stellar Satellite Communications, Delphi announced Nov.2. The modem, aimed at the asset-tracking market, delivers data via […]

The Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group (SUIRG) launched an online, interactive database to consolidate and tracks incidents of satellite radio frequency interference within the geostationary arc, the organization announced. The […]

U.K. satellite pay-TV operator BSkyB has teamed up with Vodafone to launch Sky Mobile TV to deliver broadcast video services to Vodafone mobile phone customers. There will be two Sky […]

Globalstar announced Nov. 1 it would offer simplex, or one-way, data services to customers throughout parts of the Caribbean, Central America and the northern part of South America via its […]

Worldspace Satellite Radio announced Nov. 3 availability of its service in Ahmedabad, India, the seventh largest city in the country. Ahmedabad has a population of nearly 4 million, including more […]

Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Co. CEO Yousuf Al Sayed said generating stronger revenues from the African communications market is one of the company’s key challenges in 2006. “The major challenges are […]

SIRI While XM Satellite Radio has had a comfortable lead in terms of subscriber numbers, investors may be looking more favorably at Sirius Satellite Radio at the moment. The telling […]

ViaSat Inc. posted a profit of $6 million on revenue of $104.1 million in its second quarter 2006, the company announced Nov. 3. In the same period a year ago, […]

The move by MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) to acquire the financially challenged Space & Technology/Montreal division of EMS Technologies Inc. drew a mixed reaction from the financial community. […]

A Boeing-led team received a $10 million, six-month contract to define a next-generation weather satellite for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boeing announced Nov. 3. The Program […]

Sirius Satellite Radio announced Nov. 3 its Canadian affiliate, Sirius Canada, will offer 100 channels of programming for Cdn. $14.99 ($12.66) per month when it begins broadcasting in December. Sirius […]

Digitalglobe and Valtus Imagery Services, a division of Northwest Geomatics Ltd., entered into a three-year data distribution partnership to offer Digitalglobe’s high-resolution commercial satellite imagery to Valtus customers. Valtus customers […]

Venezuela signed an agreement Nov. 1 to buy a satellite from China, the Venezuelan Ministry of Science and Technology announced. The Simon Bolivar Satellite will provide telecommunications services such as […]

DirecTV Group Inc. recorded a profit of $95 million on revenue of $3.2 billion in the third quarter 2005, the company reported Nov. 3. In the third quarter 2004, the […]

Spacedev Inc. closed the sale of $2.5 million of securities to Laurus Master Fund Ltd., the company announced Nov. 2. The proceeds from the sale will provide working capital, including […]

Globecomm Systems Inc. reported revenue of $29.6 million in the company’s first quarter 2006, up 16 percent from revenue of $25.5 million in the same period a year ago, Globecomm […]

Worldspace Satellite Radio announced Nov. 3 availability of its service in Ahmedabad, India, the seventh largest city in the country. Ahmedabad has a population of nearly 4 million, including more […]

Echostar Communications Corp. announced Nov. 2 that its Dish Network satellite television service now offers B4U Music, a 24-hour global music TV channel. The channel features musical hits from the […]

Harris Corp. introduced a new XTCE database converter for the company’s OS/Comet satellite command and control suite of products. The new database allows users to translate databases in XTCE to […]

Delphi Corp. delivered the first shipment of the new DS300 satellite transceiver modem to Stellar Satellite Communications, Delphi announced Nov.2. The modem, aimed at the asset-tracking market, delivers data via […]

Sea Launch Co. LLC has begun final preparations for the launch of the Inmarsat-4 satellite Nov. 5, Sea Launch announced. The mission was scheduled to be launched Nov. 4, but […]

Venezuela signed an agreement Nov. 1 to buy a satellite from China, the Venezuelan Ministry of Science and Technology announced. The Simon Bolivar Satellite will provide telecommunications services such as […]

Telesat Canada reported third quarter 2005 earnings of Cdn. $25.3 million ($21.5 million) on revenues of Cdn. $112.2 million ($95.5 million), the company announced Nov. 2. In the third quarter […]