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Finisar Corp. said it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against The DirecTV Group Inc. and related entities in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. The suit […]

XM Satellite Radio, which currently is the exclusive satellite radio broadcaster of every Major League Baseball game, signed multi-year marketing agreements with the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Chicago […]

A new report issued from Strategy Analytics states that while providers of direct-to-home satellite television service providers signed up more than three million customers last year, the impact on most […]

Frontier Communications and EchoStar Communications Corp. formed a strategic alliance to provide EchoStar’s Dish Network direct-to-home satellite televisions service to Frontier customers nationwide. Frontier will offer the service as part […]

U.K. satellite pay-TV operator BSkyB (Sky) is significantly enhancing the parental controls to its services. The new upgrades will enable parents to restrict access to all channels, or even to […]

Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN) said merchant bank and private equity fund management company Perseus LLC completed its acquisition of MTN. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. “[Throughout] the […]

Boeing said it assembled a team consisting of, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and Harris Corp., to bid on the next generation geostationary weather and environmental system for the National […]

SES Americom announced that its board of directors appointed Edward Horowitz to be the president and CEO of the company. He also will serve on the executive committee of SES […]

The Hindu Business Times reported earlier this week that Cartosat-1, India’s first remote sensing satellite, will be launched from the SHAR Centre in Sriharikota, India, during the first week of […]

Asia Pulse reported April 6 that the Telkom-2 satellite, scheduled for launched this month by Arianespace, would be delayed until June. The report cited an official from PT Telkom as […]

Wallace Wireless announced the release of Wallace Emergency Locator, an application that combines mapping technology from ERSI Technologies with GPS location-based services. The service will allow users of the popular […]

SI International Inc. said it was awarded a prime contract from the U.S. Air Force Space Command to provide engineering, planning and programming support for the Global Positioning System (GPS). […]

EMS Technologies Inc. said its Satellite Networks division was selected by the U.S. Defense Department‘s Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to supply a DVB-RCS system. Terms of the contract were […]

Arinc Direct said it received an operational license from the Federal Communications Commission for its SKYLink by Arinc Direct satellite broadband service for business aircraft. The service delivers two-way broadband […]

France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications (FTMSC) has stepped up its pursuit of more revenues in the Asia Pacific region by opening a sales office in Hong Kong, which will serve […]

Panamsat Corp. said Group W-Com, a Group Pegaso company, selected the company to support a new satellite-based broadband Internet service. Pegaso Banda Ancha will provide direct-to-home service providers, local telcos […]

TiVo Inc. said it signed a new advertising services agreement with DirecTV, extending a prior services agreement. Under the new agreement, each company may sell and distribute TiVo’s advanced advertising […]

Delphi Corp. said it sold 5 million satellite radio receivers to retail and automotive customers. The company claims it is the first satellite radio hardware manufacturer to reach this milestone. […]

Arinc Inc. and Telenor jointly unveiled AeroMobile, the service that will allow airline passengers to make cellular phone calls from planes while the planes are in flight. The company is […]

Maxwell Technologies Inc. said that Northrop Grumman Space Technology selected the Maxwell SCS750 single board computer for spacecraft control and payload data management for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite […]

The Russian Satellite Communications Co. (RSCC) and China SatCom have taken part in a new session of the Russian-Chinese Working Group on satellite communications. The two state-owned operators discussed co-operation […]

Orbimage Inc. reported an increase in total revenues for 2004 to $31 million, up from $9.2 million earned in 2003. The boost in revenues was attributed to the commencement of […]

Firestone Communications Inc. said it signed a multi-year network origination agreement with OBN Holdings Inc., through which Firestone will make available OBN’s programming available to U.S. cable operators and television […]

The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) will be hosting a discussion on network centric warfare and its role in bringing the global […]

Harris Corp.‘s Government Systems Communications Division awarded US Monolithics, a subsidiary of ViaSat Inc., a $4.6 million contract for the development of a Class K frequency converter module to be […]

United Press International, citing local media sources, reported April 3 that South Korea is moving up the planned date to launch a radar satellite that can provide images at night […]

The Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) said it is launching an India chapter, which will comprise of all members of the association that currently have representation in […]

Sky Catcher Communications said it plans to offer DVB-RCS services to the enterprise market in North America. Specific details on the packages that the company will offer have not yet […]

SES Americom said it has united with Comcast Media Center, a business unit of Comcast Cable that operates a high definition television (HDTV) content production and network origination facility, to […]

GlobeCast said it launched a new distribution platform on the Intelsat Americas-13 (IA-13) satellite for digital cable networks. TVE Internacional America, a division of Spain’s TVE Internacional is the first […]