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Noorsat, a new entrant on the Middle East satellite communications landscape, is expecting strong growth in the satellite broadcast market. The company predicts the number of television channels broadcasting to […]

EMS Technologies Inc. said Sept. 21 that the U.S. Department of Defense is equipping ground operators of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in Southeastern Asia with video capabilities from EMS DVB-RCS […]

Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) received a $170 million contract from Spacecom to build the Amos 3 communications satellite, IAI announced. The satellite will be manufactured at IAI’s Systems Missiles & […]

Glowlink introduced its Webaccess product, which uses Internet browser technology to provide a web-based access overlay to the company’s spectrum monitoring system, the company announced. Customers using Webaccess will have […]

SAT Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems Inc., announced Sept. 21 that it has delivered its digital spectrum analyzer, SAT-DSA, to Northrop- Grumman. SAT-DSA is a digital spectrum […]

Tachyon Networks Inc. said Sept. 21 it is donating secure, carrier-grade broadband satellite services system to the Naval Postgraduate School arm of Joint Task Force Katrina. The system will help […]

Digitalglobe announced Sept. 21 that Thomas Henning was named the company’s new senior director of U.S. defense business development. Henning will interact with senior U.S. Department of Defense and intelligence […]

Lack of awareness remains high regarding satellite-enabled broadband solutions for ruralsmall businesses seeking connectivity, according to industry and government leaders. Representatives from the Federal Communications Commission, United States Department of […]

Telenor ASA and Orbital Sciences Corp. announced Sept. 20 that they signed a satellite manufacturing contract for a satellite that will replace Telenor’s Thor 2 spacecraft. It is the third […]

Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. (Asiasat) announced Sept. 20 that it signed an agreement with Airwaves Media (Pvt) Ltd. of Pakistan for the lease of C- band capacity on the […]

Arinc Inc. announced Sept. 20 that Finnair, the national carrier of Finland, has selected Arinc to provide a full suite of satellite communications services. Arinc will provide passenger and cockpit […]

Globecomm Systems Inc. announced Sept. 20 it won multiple contracts from Digicel Group (Digicel), a mobile telecommunications company in the Caribbean. Globecomm will design and install satellite infrastructure in Trinidad […]

The Joint Systems Integration Command (JSIC) has completed a successful first delivery and integration of a mobile broadband satellite system from ViaSat Inc. for command and control on-the-move (C2OTM) applications […]

Internet protocol television, or IPTV, via satellite is a niche market offering, accounting for a relatively small percentage share of the market potential that terrestrial- based platforms are likely to […]

Eumetsat, the European Organisation for The Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, announced further measures to improve hurricane detection. The organization has announced that the High Resolution Visible (HRV) Channel on Eumetsat’s […]

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) said Sept. 20 that Mark Faris will take over as the company’s chief operating officer. Faris, a 30-year veteran network operator, will be responsible for design, […]

New Skies Satellite Holdings Ltd. announced Sept. 20 its board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend for the third quarter of 2005 in the amount of $0.463125 per share, […]

Communication Systems-West, a division of L-3 Communications, will supply satellite communications terminals to the U.S. Army, the company announced Sept. 19. Under the $82 million contract modification from Army Communication-Electronics […]

Harris Corp. received a $16 million contract to supply antennas to the U.S. military, the company announced Sept. 19. The contract from The U.S. Army calls for Harris to provide […]

SES Americom said Sept. 19 it signed a multiyear, multimillion-dollar agreement with Jones Radio Networks, an independent radio programming company, to broadcast Jones programming over SES Americom’s AMC-8 satellite. Jones […]

Worldspace Inc. announced late last week that it has expanded its program lineup for its satellite radio subscribers. The most recent channel addition, Moksha, is intended to expand Worldspace’s offerings […]

XM Satellite Radio will be the exclusive live radio broadcaster of the “From the Big Apple to the Big Easy” concert for Hurricane Katrina relief, taking place at New York’s […]

In the Sept. 19 issue of Satellite Today, we reported that Quake Global Inc. said its new Q1000 modem was delivered to Orbcomm for final U.S. Federal Communications Commission testing. […]

LogicaOMG will define next-generation satellite navigation technologies intended for insertion into mass-market location-based services (LBS) which use a mobile phone. The ultimate objective of the “Applications of Galileo in the […]

Orbimage Holdings Inc. agreed to acquire the assets of Space Imaging LLC, Orbimage announced Sept. 16. Dulles, Va.-based Orbimage, which operates the Orbview 3 high-resolution imagery satellite, will pay about […]

With a promise to boost Canadian content, Canadian Satellite Radio and Sirius Canada, the Canadian satellite partners of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio, respectively, had their licenses to […]

Sprint announced Sept. 13 that its wireless customers will be able to listen to Sirius Satellite Radio programming via their mobile phones. The offer delivers 20 commercial-free music channels, plus […]

Tom Betts, the COO of ITV‘s consumer division is confident that the company’s Freesat, a new free digital satellite service that will feature a number of BBC and ITV channels, […]

The future for Internet protocol television (IPTV) services distributed by telecommunications service providers received a boost earlier this month when Gov. Rick Perry of Texas signed into law a bill […]

The U.S. Air Force is completing the worldwide deployment of more than 280 tactical meteorological data collection systems that provide mission-critical weather data to war planners and decision makers via […]