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Optus, Australia’s second largest telco and a subsidiary of Singapore Telecommunications Ltd., said its aging B1 satellite experienced an outage last week. The May 23outage was caused by a failure […]

The Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group said May 30 it launched a new Global Uplinker Registry, which will provide regional and local uplinkers with a central means of increasing their […]

The Wall Street Journal Reported May 31 that XM Satellite Radio awarded the contract for its fifth satellite to Loral Space and Communications, though the article did not get formal […]

Thai Shin Satellite plans to launch its Ipstar satellite no later than July 18 aboard an Ariane 5 rocket, according to documents the company filed with the Stock Exchange of […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. announced May 27, as this issue of Satellite News was going to press, that U.S. government agents executed search warrants at the company’s Dulles, Va., and Chandler, […]

A group of creditors who hold more than $379 million of outstanding notes of Satelites Mexicanos, S.A. de C.V. (Satmex) filed an involuntary Chapter 11 petition May 26 against the […]

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.‘s Spacenet Inc. subsidiary introduced Connexstar SE, a new product that uses the Gilat SkyEdge very small aperture terminal (VSAT) platform to provide next-generation speed, security and […]

Globalstar announced that Burlington Resources Canada Ltd., a division of Burlington Resources Inc. and an independent oil and gas exploration and production company, purchased and activated 120 GSP-1600 handheld phones. […]

European entrepreneurs, small businesses, academia and research institutes are invited to participate in a competition to develop innovative uses of the planned Galileo global navigation satellite system. The best idea […]

Digitalglobe will provide imagery collected by its Quickbird satellite for use in mapping floodplains in Kauai County, Hawaii. The Digital Ortho Quarter Quad product, which offers two-foot resolution, will allow […]

Norsat International Inc. shipped portable satellite terminals for use by a military organization in Asia, the company announced. The terminals will enable high data-rate communications among bases. The size of […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. announced May 27 as this issue of Satellite News was going to press that U.S. government agents executed search warrants at its Dulles, Va., and Chandler, Ariz., […]

Eumetsat, the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, is making meteorological data available to users beyond its core user group of Europe’s weather services. More than 1,000 users […]

Connexion by Boeing, a business unit of Boeing Co. that offers satellite broadband connectivity distributed through a Wi-Fi connection to laptops of airline passengers, learned a valuable lesson during the […]

Inmarsat announced May 24 its collaboration with ViaSat Inc. to develop new solutions based on the integration of Inmarsat’s forthcoming Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) Mobile Satellite Service and ViaSat’s […]

With the official commercial launch of WildBlue‘s two-way satellite Internet slated for this week, company CEO Tom Moore is confident that the delays in getting to this point ultimately will […]

Global Crossing announced May 24 a new agreement under which Loral Skynet will be able to more easily reach locations outside its satellite network. Using Global Crossing’s iMPLS service, the […]

Panamsat‘s QuickSpot service, a bandwidth on demand service that was developed to meet the growing need for flexibility in provisioning satellite services requiring a mobile “pay-as-you-go” model, has expanded. Initially, […]

Globecomm Systems Inc. unveiled its lightweight broadband terminal designed to meet airline cabin baggage requirements. The 0.77-meter terminal is contained within a pair of suitcases and can be set up […]

Satellite pay-TV operators in Europe reported mixed results for the first quarter of 2005. In the post-holiday market, the rate of growth is traditionally slower and the numbers reflect that […]

The U.S. Air Force announced May 23 it selected Lockheed Martin to continue development of the Innovative Space Based Radar Antenna Technology, or ISAT. The contract, valued at $19.5 million, […]

Panamsat Holding Corp. continues to rise, ending the 10 trading days leading to our May 26 publication deadline for this issue at a historic high of $19.70 per share since […]

dbsXmedia, a subsidiary of Ariel Way Inc., signed a new contract with Virgin Megastores to deliver in-store music and advertising with the Virgin Megastores Radio service into retail stores throughout […]

International Launch Services (ILS) placed the DirecTV 8 satellite into orbit May 22 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Proton Breeze M rocket. Satellite controllers confirmed that the […]

EMS Satcom opened an office in Monterrey, Mexico, that will be the headquarters for the company’s Latin American sales operations. “The opening of this office and our expansion into the […]

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) said the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorized the launch and operation of a next-generation L-band satellite at 101 degrees West. This follows the April 5 […]

Africa and Asia will offer satellite operators the best growth opportunities in the near term, industry CEOs said May 23 at the opening roundtable discussion at Intelsat‘s 31st annual Global […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) completed an aircraft flight from Dakar to Mombassa using the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS), the European satellite navigation system. The mission could play […]

Satellite operator Telesat announced the launch of its two-way satellite broadband service. The service, operating on Anik F2’s Ka-band payload, delivers high-speed Internet connectivity throughout Canada. “By delivering superior broadband […]

EMS Satcom, a division of EMS Technologies Inc. announced that Turkey selected the company’s system for its search-and-rescue (SAR) operations. The contract is valued at approximately $1.2 million. The SAR […]