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Morgan Stanley raised fiscal-year 2005 estimated revenue forecast for Garmin [GRMN] to $900 million from $830 million and EPS (earnings per share) to $2.18 from $2.04 due to stronger than […]

Orders for commercial satellites are in the “doldrums” but Dulles, Va.-based Orbital Sciences [ORB] still managed to post favorable results for third-quarter 2004, according to a research note from William […]

Claude Goumy, former chief executive of Matra Marconi Space, was honored with the Arthur C. Clarke Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the development and exploitation of space in […]

A consent decree issued last week by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Enforcement Bureau led FCC Chairman Michael Powell to draw attention to the responsibility of satellite-TV and cable-TV operators […]

Ford Motor Co. [F] was suffering through hefty losses and restructuring woes when rival General Motors [GM] initially invested in Washington-based XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] and pledged to fund a […]

BT hopes a new technology development could help companies maximize their use of satellite capacity. It has developed a satellite modulation technology, which it states can triple the capacity of […]

An important avenue of new subscriber sales for EchoStar Communications [DISH] did not quite meet Wall Street expectations Friday. The satellite television service’s partnership with telecommunications services provider SBC Communications […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reportedly is looking into an incident in which a Toshiba television triggered an international search and rescue signal Oct. 4. The federal agency is looking […]

The Boeing Company [BA] says it is complying with a request from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to provide information in connection with an inquiry about its accounting […]

Olathe, Kan.-based Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd. [GRMN], introduced the a new remote sensor that receives broadcast weather data from the satellite weather service of XM Satellite […]

ONO, the Spanish cable operator and one of the main competitors to DTH operator Digital+, completed the purchase of Retecal, the cable operator based in the region of Castilla y […]

Australian DTH operator Foxtel launched a new service aimed at two million deaf and hearing-impaired Australians. These consumers will now have access to a wide range of subscription programming for […]

Eumetsat will be offering 15- and 16-year-old winners of a forthcoming contest a trip to next year’s launch of Meteosat-9, the next generation of Eumetsat’s geostationary meteorological satellite. This second-generation […]

Corus Entertainment Inc. inked a deal to take on an ownership interest in Canadian Satellite Radio (CSR), Satellite Today learned. Corus would provide content to CSR, assuming the satellite radio […]

Stratos Global Corp. reported net earnings for the third quarter ended Sept. 30 of $9.2 million, up from the net earnings of $7.1 million earned in the third quarter of […]

Pembroke, Bermuda-based Intelsat announced that its shareholders approved the purchase of the company by Zeus Holdings Ltd. during the company’s annual general meeting held in Paris this week. Zeus Holdings […]

Norwegian telco Telenor has announced that it will make a book profit of around $62 million from the sale of its four percent share in Intelsat. The deal will see […]

Leading UK broadcaster ITV is officially launching its ITV Interactive ITVi 24/7 service this week. While there previously have been interactive services on ITV1 and ITV2, this launch will increase […]

Bedminster, N.J.-based Loral Skynet signed an agreement with Hawaii Pacific Teleport (HPT), a provider of teleport services between North America and Asia, to use Loral’s recently launched Telstar 18 satellite. […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] reported third quarter 2004 revenues to be $171.7 million, up 33 percent from the $128.6 million earned during the same period one year ago. Operating income […]

XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] is taking a swing at enticing new subscribers through the American pastime by signing an 11-year, $650 million contract to air every Major League Baseball game […]

Satellite Today has learned that Darlene Investments LLC, which owns 14 percent of DirecTV‘s [DTV] Latin American operations, has filed suit in Miami-Dade Circuit Court in Florida to block the […]

Bedminster, N.J.-based Loral Skynet and Remote Work Central, a provider of telecommuting and teleworking solutions, agreed to provide secure telecommuting and remote access connectivity services to small and medium enterprises […]

Satellite Today has learned that China yesterday successfully launched a meteorological satellite that will be used to monitor natural disasters. The No. 2 Fengyun C satellite was launched into orbit […]

Frost & Sullivan has given its 2004 Satellite Reliability Award to Lockheed Martin [LMT] for the lowest rate of anomalies resulting in insurance claims per percentage of satellites in service […]

NASA late yesterday said its DART, or Demonstration of Autonomous Rendezvous Technology, spacecraft will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Oct. 26 at 2:13 p.m. EDT. DART […]

Hughes Network Systems Inc. has inked a deal with Ukrainian-based information technology and telecommunications company Datasat to extend Datasat’s existing satellite business network. Under the contract, Hughes will supply Datasat […]

Ottawa, Canada-based C-COM Satellite Systems Inc. [CMI], has teamed with fellow Ottawa company RAMTelecom to deliver high-speed, satellite- based mobile Internet services using the LinkStar equipment of Carlsbad, Calif.-based Viasat […]

Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI] said today that it has surpassed the 700,000-subscriber mark and had its best month ever for new subscribers in September, with the addition of 69,000 subs. […]

Alexandria, Va.-based Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association (SBCA) filed comments last Friday with the FCC about the commission’s Notice of Inquiry (NOI) on violent television programming and its impact on […]