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Orbital Recovery Corp. has appointed Kirby Ikin as its senior vice president for risk management. Ikin has extensive experience in the space insurance and risk management sectors, which he will […]

The International Telecommunication Union is partnering with London-based Inmarsat to promote rural telecommunication and support emergency communications in developing countries. Inmarsat will make a 105,000 euro ($109,500) contribution toward the […]

Hauppauge, N.Y.-based Globecomm Systems Inc. [GCOM], a provider of end-to-end satellite communications services, won two satellite equipment infrastructure contracts valued at $5.3 million. The first contract, obtained from an unidentified […]

Cable TV providers are gaining market share in the Canadian digital television market at the expense of satellite TV services, a new study has found. Canadian satellite TV providers have […]

General Dynamics Network Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics [NYSE: GD], will provide satellite engineering and flight-operations services for the first of several commercial communications satellites that Tonga-based Friendly […]

The Nimiq 2 telecommunications satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems (LMCSS) for Telesat Canada, was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Lift-off occurred Dec. […]

Melville, N.Y.-based Comtech Telecommunications Corp. [CMTL] has received a $1.3 million order for satellite modems from an unidentified Asian customer for $1.3 million. The order includes the CDM-600 satellite modem […]

EchoStar Communications Corp. [DISH] announced that its subsidiary, EchoStar DBS Corp., has elected to retire all of its outstanding 9 º percent senior notes due 2006, three years early pursuant […]

Beverly Enterprises [BEV] became the first major U.S. healthcare company to enter the field of GPS location and monitoring systems for patient care purposes when it signed a strategic alliance […]

Pegasus Communications Corp. said that as a result of its previously announced one-for-10 reverse stock split, its Class A common stock has been trading on Nasdaq on a post-split basis […]

Stratos Global Corp., a Bethesda, Md.-based remote communication solutions and services, has reached an agreement with its lending banks regarding amendments to certain terms and conditions of its credit facilities, […]

The MVS Group, a distribution partner for Inmarsat’s high-speed satellite-based Regional BGAN service, has sold 1,000 terminals for the service and expects Regional BGAN to triple its own commercial sales […]

ViaSat Inc. [VSAT] has been awarded a contract by INTERNET Directo S.A. de C.V. to provide a LinkStar broadband VSAT network for the Mexican government’s e- Mexico national IT project. […]

KVH Industries [KVHI] will unveil its TracVision A5 in-motion satellite TV antenna on Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The 4- 1/2 inch high TracVision in-motion satellite […]

Australian private-equity investment firm Castle Harlan Australian Mezzanine Partners Pty. Ltd. (CHAMP) would become the largest shareholder in Australian satellite TV firm Austar United Communications Ltd. under a bankruptcy reorganization […]

STMicroelectronics [STM], a supplier of set-top box and MPEG decoder chips, recently shipped its 100 millionth MPEG-2 device to set-top box manufacturers, company officials said. ST’s chips are used in […]

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, a joint venture partner in International Launch Services Inc., (ILS) made available information regarding the investigation into the Nov. 26 Proton K/Block DM […]

The promotion of James Frownfelter to the post of chief operating officer at PanAmSat Corp. [SPOT] is aimed at allowing CEO Joseph Wright to focus on growing the company’s revenues. […]

Week of Dec. 30 – Jan. 3 2002 Percentage Change Symbol Jan. 2 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.79 9.8 […]

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [GILTF], a satellite networking technology company, reported a “significant increase” in its order backlog when it released its latest quarterly results Monday. The gains are a […]

WildBlue Communications Inc. appears locked in to begin commercial service in 2004 after finalizing a $154 million financing package from key strategic partners. As reported in a front page SATELLITE […]

A speedy industry recovery from a dismal 2002 is not expected anytime soon. The outlook is for modest improvement in the economy and in business prospects during the year. Satellite […]

Washington-based XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] is sacrificing a big portion of the ownership stake of its existing shareholders in a planned $450 million restructuring that will gain the company about […]

Companies increasingly seem open to using alternative technologies to serve their customers. The latest example is Atlanta-based Southern LINC, a wireless communications service from Southern Company [SO]. Southern LINC recently […]

Termination of the proposed merger between DirecTV Inc. and EchoStar Communications Corp. [DISH] ended another chapter in the competitive landscape of the U.S. direct broadcast satellite (DBS) industry. Many now […]

France-based Arianespace S.A. will need a bit more time before it can shake off the Dec. 11 launch failure of an Ariane 5 that occurred during the first mission of […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has released its ninth annual report on competition in the market for the delivery of video programming. The report finds that cable television still is […]

People Spectrum Astro Promotes New Executives Spectrum Astro promoted Daren Iverson to vice president of contracts and finance and CFO. His new duties include the oversight and management of Spectrum’s […]

Zonevision has formed an alliance with Zee-Turner in Asia to launch its Reality TV channel in India. The channel will launch on Feb. 1, 2003. The deal was announced on […]

Microspace, operator of one of the largest business satellite broadcasting networks in the world, has hooked up with New Skies Satellites to broadcast real-time, IP-based information to thousands of locations […]