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Multiband today said it has been selected by Marine Corps Community Services at the Marine Corps base at Camp Pendleton, CA, to install DirecTV services. DirecTV services will be available […]

Globalstar said it has expanded its data service coverage to reach across the Atlantic and all of Europe and North Africa. The company said it will offer simplex, or one-way, […]

The Canal+ Group has concluded a deal with Twentieth Century Fox, which will enable subscribers to view first broadcasts of all the movies produced by the US studio between 2007 […]

Orbit International Corp. [ORBT] today announced its Behlman Electronics Inc. power units segment has received $700,000 in orders from the U.S. Navy, part of which will go towards the development […]

The Boeing Co. and the U.S. Air Force late yesterday said that everything is ready for the inaugural launch of the new Delta 4 heavy rocket, which will take place […]

SES Americom, an SES Global company, today announced that it has acquired Verestar for a total cash consideration of $18.5 million, completing the transaction that was first announced last April. […]

Northern Sky Research today said, “unlike the experience of the late 1990s, next generation mobile satellite services based on the consumption of high-speed data, not narrowband voice, will be a […]

By Gerry Oberst Astudy group of the International Tele-communication Union Development Bureau (ITU-D) will release a report on satellite regulation in developing countries that offers a cornucopia of information on […]

Glowlink said that Intelsat will be using the Glowlink Model 1000 spectrum monitoring system for the Intelsat Teleport Monitoring Systems program. The Model 1000 is a DSP-based spectrum monitoring system […]

People Tachyon Names VP and GM Of Canadian Market Tachyon Networks Inc. named Reeve Martin vice president and general manager of Tachyon’s Canadian market. Martin is responsible for expanding the […]

Viasat Broadcasting has launched its pay-TV services via broadband offering in Sweden. The initial rollout will see 300,000 households in 50 Swedish cities able to gain these services. Modern Times […]

EuroNews, a pan-European news channel, will now be available throughout Asia thanks to a key deal with satellite operator Eutelsat. EuroNews will now be broadcast with two signals in Asia […]

ND SatCom today said it delivered a turnkey ground station for satellite communications to the German Armed Forces in Kastellaun, Germany. This station will connect the transportable satellite ground stations […]

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [GILTF] today announced it has added Sky-Abis, a satellite solution for GSM operators, to its SkyEdge family of products. Sky-Abis allows mobile operators to expand their […]

In the latest move to bolster its content offering, Sirius Satellite Radio signed a three-year deal to exclusively carry all the games of NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship live, […]

Pace Micro Technology has a won a key deal with German pay-TV operator Premiere to supply PVR (Personal Video Recorder) STBs. Premiere has more than three million subscribers in Germany […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] today said the GPS IIR-13 satellite, launched Nov. 6 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station,FL, has been declared fully operational for military and civilian navigation use. With […]

Satellite Phone Source Inc. [SPHI], a renter of satellite telecommunications equipment, today announced the opening of an office in Vancouver, British Columbia. “We are very excited about now becoming an […]

With a technology foundation firmly laid in providing broadband services to train riders in Europe, RaySat has turned to the U.S. marketplace with a different target in mind: the growing […]

File this item in the “what are they thinking?” category. XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] last week announced it added two new music channels that will appear exclusively on its XM […]

Satellite News has learned that China plans to launch a television broadcasting satellite in the first half of 2006. According to reports, the satellite will provide broadcasting services to that […]

Rainbow Media Enterprises, a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp. [CVC], said its year-old Voom satellite service will nearly double its capacity March 2005, and it will increase its current offering […]

While this is not about the future launch of a space-based asset, Satellite News has been keeping a close eye on the developments of what are being called “stratellites,” because […]

Satellite Today has learned that satellite operator Yahsat is undergoing preparations to begin operations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Specific plans, including what types of services Yahsat will offer, […]

In what has been described as quick action by Congress, the House and Senate passed omnibus appropriations legislation that included the Satellite Home Viewer Extension and Reauthorization Act of 2004 […]

Intelsat Ltd. revealed that its Intelsat Americas-7 satellite experienced a sudden and unexpected electrical distribution anomaly that caused the permanent loss of the spacecraft Nov. 28 at 2:30 a.m. EST. […]

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has dismissed a protest from New SI LLC filed after National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) awarded the NextView Second Vendor contract to Orbimage Inc. [ORBM]. In […]

BT, the UK telco has now exited the satellite business after selling its stake in leading satellite operator Eutelsat. BT sold its 15.8 percent stake for GBP368 million ($675 million) […]

SES Americom, an SES Global company, will deliver free of charge the first of a series of Cable Positive‘s newest HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention campaign, “Join The Fight,” to cable […]

Iridium Satellite LLC today said the company recently closed an agreement for a $65.5 million credit facility with Bank of America [BAC], which will be used for general corporate purposes. […]