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Englewood, Colo.-based EchoStar Communications Corporation‘s [DISH] DISH Network satellite-television service expanded the number of markets in which it offers local channels to 150 last week when it added Terre Haute, […]

Washington-based WorldSpace filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch and operate the AfriStar-2 satellite and to co-locate it at 21º East with the company’s AfriStar-1 satellite. […]

Columbia Communications Corporation, a SES Americom acquisition, filed an amendment with the FCC to its pending application for modification of the AMC-12 satellite at 37.5º West. The amendment provides new […]

WB Holdings 1 LLC, an affiliated organization of fledgling satellite broadband service WildBlue, filed a request for Special Temporary Authority to operate its Ka-band payload (29250 MHz-30000 MHz, 8350 MHz-28600 […]

In America, we are taught the importance of finishing first. Winning teams are celebrated, their head coaches are venerated and their top players typically are rewarded generously. Losers, no matter […]

Bethesda, Md.-based National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) chose Dulles, Va.-based Orbimage to receive a NextView contract that calls for the company to provide the U.S. government with high-resolution imagery from next-generation […]

BSkyB announced plans of a fresh marketing drive as it bids to increase its subscriber numbers still further in the UK and Ireland. The carrier, which has around 7.4 million […]

Satellite Today has learned that “The Final Cut,” a new science-fiction film starring Robin Williams, will be distributed exclusively to 115 AMC Theaters in 27 markets via satellite technology instead […]

Despite the recent surge in hurricane activity in Florida, International Launch Services (ILS) and Lockheed Martin [LMT] said the launch facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station survived “relatively unscathed,” […]

Satellite Phone Source Inc. [SPHI.PK] unveiled its plan to become the Number One U.S. provider of satellite phones next year. The company is working with service providers and phone manufacturers […]

Ecuavisa Internacional, reportedly the top-ranked television station in Ecuador, has been added to the “DirecTV Para Todos” Spanish-language-programming platform offered by direct-to-home satellite-TV provider DirecTV Inc. [DTV]. DirecTV signed an […]

DigitalGlobe inked a deal making Merrick Advanced Photogrammetry of the Americas S. de R.L. de C.V. an authorized reseller of QuickBird high-resolution satellite imagery in Mexico. Financial terms were not […]

Industry Canada, that country’s regulatory body, awarded a provisional license Monday to fledgling Ottawa-based satellite operator Ciel Satellite Communications Inc. The provisional license allows Ciel to proceed with its plans […]

The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) formally introduced itself today at a press conference in Washington, D.C. The new group, consisting initially of 28 companies that span the IT […]

Top Up TV wants to carve out a niche in the increasingly competitive lower end of the digital pay-TV market in the U.K. by launching a brand-new pay-TV package called […]

Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin [LMT] won a $6 million, 18-month contract from NASA to perform design-and-risk reduction for the agency’s Solar Imaging Suite (SIS), a set of operational instruments that […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Raytheon [RTN] were pacing the floor late Friday afternoon, waiting to hear which one would win a $6.2 billion U.S. Department of Defense satellite-communications contract (SN, […]

Satellite TV’s advantage of offering digital video signals since the mid-1990s is waning because the $70 billion the big cable-TV operators have spent on the technology is allowing those carriers […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] is pursuing U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) communications networking business opportunities that depend on satellites. Last week, Boeing showed it was willing to invest in innovative […]

Herndon, Va.-based iDirect wants to capitalize on a new threesome forged with satellite services operator Intelsat and communications networking provider Equant by tapping into what its management considers to be […]

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company of Sunnyvale, Calif., won a $2.1 billion cost-plus-incentive-fee contract from the U.S. Navy for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS), a next-generation narrowband military satellite […]

NavCom Technology, a unit of Deere & Company [DE], is targeting the agricultural industry by pushing Global Positioning System (GPS) services into the untraditional role of helping farmers plow their […]

Satellite Today has learned that an insurance company in California is using satellite imagery to determine whether to renew coverage to certain clients in high-fire-risk areas who may need to […]

The bold move by PanAmSat Founder Rene Anselmo to risk tens of millions of dollars of his own money to buy a satellite and then to launch it, uninsured, on […]

Eutelsat shareholders approved a plan to restructure its corporate governance by replacing a 15-member supervisory board/four-member management board with a single 10-member board of directors. Giuliano Berretta was elected chairman […]

Nordic Satellite (NSAB) is holding back on a decision about ordering its proposed SIRIUS 4 satellite, amid slow demand for capacity, and the carrier will capitalize on existing hardware for […]

Following the discovery of glitch in the Thaicom 3 satellite that could result in that bird’s failure, Satellite Today discovered that Shin Satellite PLC is pushing plans to launch its […]

With close to 30 million households now subscribing to some form of digital television (DTV), France is the only major European market to support two satellite pay-TV operators, Canal Satellite […]

China launched its 20th recoverable satellite from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center aboard a Long March 2-D rocket. The satellite will be used for research, geological surveying and mapping, and […]

By Adam D. Thierer Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has introduced an important new bill dealing with the digital television (DTV) transition that will have direct impact on the satellite industry. […]