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  • Alcatel Wins Contract To Supply XM Payload To Boeing

    Boeing (NYSE: BA) has selected Alcatel Space, a unit of Paris-based Alcatel [NYSE: ALA] to supply a multi-million payload for a satellite Boeing is build for XM Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: […]

  • Hughes Joins Wi-Fi Alliance

    Hughes Network Systems, a broadband satellite subsidiary of Hughes Electronics [NYSE: GMH], has joined the Wi-Fi Alliance, a non-profit organization formed to certify interoperability of IEEE 802.11 products and to […]

  • New Skies Considers Options

    New Skies Satellites [NYSE: NSK] has completed its share buy back program, buying back over 13 million shares. The completion of the program was announced on Sept. 3. Andrew Browne, […]

  • SES Astra To Partner With News Equipe

    SES Astra, a Luxembourg-based satellite operator, has signed a partnership agreement with News Equipe, a Dutch-German provider of satellite news gathering services. As part of the agreement, SES Astra will […]

  • Telenor Aims To Seize Mobile Satellite Initiative

    Telenor Satellite Services (TSS) CEO Tore Hilde believes the land mobile arena will offer the satellite operator numerous opportunities in the coming years. While maritime will continue to be the […]

  • Lockheed Martin, Government Investigate Satellite Accident

    Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], the contractor in charge of construction and testing of the NOAA-N Prime satellite, is working with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National […]

  • The Challenge Next Time

    By Maury Mechanick Having recently returned from the International Satellite & Communications Exchange Conference and Expo held in Long Beach, Calif., in late August, I was struck by the positive […]

  • Noteworthy

    The battle for video and high-speed Internet access is here. Find out who is likely to win, who has the greatest challenges, and what opportunities that knowledge will open up […]

  • Loral Makes Tough Sacrifice to Stay Alive

    By Bharadwaj Ramesh, Industry Analyst, and Patrick French, Strategic Analyst, Frost & Sullivan (Editor’s Note: This article was written before EchoStar [Nasdaq: DISH] made an informal offer for Loral Space […]

  • AsiaSat Hopes For AsiaSat 4 Success

    AsiaSat has had a tough first six months of 2003. It saw its profits and revenue drop compared to the first six months of 2002. However, despite tough market conditions, […]

  • Satellite Industry To Benefit from Earth Summit

    Commercial opportunities for satellite imagery and manufacturing should arise from the international effort to coordinate and integrate information on the Earth’s environment. World governments are likely to need images and […]

  • Editor’s Note

    Dear Subscribers, I just wanted to let you know that you’ll be getting the insightful satellite industry coverage you come to depend on from Interspace every week. Interspace’s top-notch coverage […]

  • Transponder Monitor

    78.5ºE: Thaicom 2&3 D Indiavision is testing intermittently on 3686 MHz horizontal, SR 3333, FEC 3/4, VPID 1160, APID 1120. Occasional feed traffic for TVT Channel 11 can be found […]

  • Pace Gets Key Foothold In Germany

    Pace Micro Technology is set to become a key player in the German pay-TV market after signing a number of agreements with satellite pay-TV provider Premiere. In one agreement, Pace […]

  • Hughes, Telesat Ink Deal

    Hughes Network Systems, a subsidiary of Hughes Electronics [NYSE: GMH], has signed a three-year agreement with Canadian satellite operator Telesat to provide technical support for Telesat’s telecommunications and broadcasting services […]

  • Lockheed Wins EchoStar Contract

    Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] Commercial Space Systems (LMCSS) has won a contract from EchoStar Communications [Nasdaq: DISH] to build an A2100 geosynchronous satellite for the satellite TV company. The satellite, […]

  • Eutelsat Pursues Hotel Video Market

    Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat agreed to work with Locatel, a French integrator of audiovisual technology services, to offer digital delivery of video rental films to hotels. The deal calls for […]

  • ARINC, Telenor Form Aeronautical Services Alliance

    ARINC and Telenor Satellite Services [Nasdaq: TELN] have signed an agreement that creates what the companies characterize as the world’s largest alliance of aeronautical service providers. Under the agreement, Telenor […]

  • Arianespace To Launch Astra 1KR Satellite

    French launch services firm Arianespace has signed a contract with SES Astra to launch the Astra 1KR telecommunications satellite. Financial terms of the deal weren’t released. The launch of Astra […]

  • ILS To Launch Amazonas Satellite

    International Launch Services (ILS) has signed an agreement to launch the Amazonas satellite covering Latin America for Spanish satellite operator Hispasat of Spain on a Proton/Breeze M rocket next year. […]

  • ANA Signs Deal For Boeing In-flight Service

    Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Boeing [NYSE:BA] have signed a letter of intent signaling the air carrier’s plan to install the Connexion by Boeing satellite Internet service on its […]

  • Intelsat, TVNZ Launch New Video Service

    Intelsat Global Sales & Marketing and TVNZ Satellite Services have agreed tojoin forces in the occasional use broadcast services business. This alliance is designed to leverage the strengths of each […]

  • Lockheed Martin-Built Titan IV Rocket Launches NRO Satellite

    A Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT]-built Titan IV B rocket lifted off Tuesday morning at 12:29 a.m. EDT carrying a classified payload for the U.S. Air Force and the National Reconnaissance […]

  • Citroen To Offer Satellite Navigation Using Trafficmaster

    French car maker Citroen has announced that it is offering Trafficmaster‘slatest satellite navigation system, Smartnav, as an approved accessory on all vehicle models in the United Kingdom. Smartnav will be […]

  • EchoStar Redeems Senior Notes

    EchoStar Communications [Nasdaq: DISH] confirmed that effective Sept. 3, 2003, its subsidiary, EchoStar DBS Corp., completed the redemption of $245 million principal amount of its 9 1/8 percent senior notes […]

  • Noteworthy

    The battle for video and high-speed Internet access is here. Find out who is likely to win, who has the greatest challenges, and what opportunities that knowledge will open up […]

  • Frost Named VP at GlobeCast

    Satellite broadcast provider GlobeCast America has appointed Mary Frost as senior vice president of sales. In her new position, Frost will be responsible for overseeing both domestic and international sales […]

  • Alaska Station Buys Norsat Units

    Alaska’s largest TV station and Anchorage’s NBC affiliate KTUU has purchased Norsat International’s NewsLink portable satellite terminal. With this purchase, KTUU ends a three- year search to find satellite technology […]

  • Lockheed Adds GPS Partners

    Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] announced that Raytheon [NYSE: RTN], ITT [NYSE: ITT] and General Dynamics [NYSE: GD] have joined its team to develop the GPS III, the U.S. Air Force’s […]

  • Merrimac Gets Boeing GPS Order

    Merrimac Industries [AMEX: MRM] has signed a deal with Boeing [NYSE: BA] that could reach a value of $4.4 million to supply its Beamforming Networks and RF/Microwave signal processing components […]