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INTERSPACE’S IN-DEPTH STUDY OF EUROPEAN SATELLITE ACTIVITY, COMPILED BY MIKE FALLON Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 80 degreesE: Express-6A A – Moscow-based TV6 appears to have left 3875 […]

Arts & Entertainment’s History Channel has chosen to go with Turkey’s Star Digital platform, a rival to the larger DigiTurk outfit. History will air a 12-hour programme block, to a […]

Shin Satellite Plc of Thailand has awarded its contract to Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) for the design and construction of iPSTAR-1. The contract includes training and support services, as well as […]

The Biography Channel, a sister service to the History Channel, will launch at 6pm on Sky Digital on October 1, subject to last-minute negotiations between BSkyB and Biography’s parent, A&E […]

Recently launched UK thematic service Channel Health plans to raise pounds5.1 million (E8.46 million) by issuing 35.7 million shares at 57p (E0.95) each. If successful the channel will be valued […]

As tradition dictates, public broadcaster RAI will have the exclusive Italian TV rights to broadcast the Olympic Games taking place in Sydney this September. However, this time around the Italian […]

US electronics group Motorola has cleared the last hurdle to allow it to pull down satellites orbiting the earth for the bankrupt Iridium mobile phone company, which it backed. Following […]

Spanish Pay-TV group Sogecable recorded a net profit of PTA 345 million (E2.1 million) in the first six months of the year, compared with losses of PTA 1.1 million (E6,611) […]

EMS Technologies Inc. [ELMG] said its Caltrac Star Tracker system successfully provided critical navigation functions to the STS-101 mission crew during an experiment in orbital attitude readiness involving ISS. The […]

The Swedish aerospace manufacturer Saab Ericsson Space has won two subcontracts to supply onboard electronic systems for satellites under construction. Under one of the subcontracts, the company will provide 45 […]

Hughes Electronics Corp. [GMH] named three new corporate vice presidents. Pat Doyle was promoted to corporate vice president for finance and acting treasurer. He joined the company in 1992 as […]

Societe Europeenne des Satellites (SES) has announced a further intercontinental expansion–the move into the Western Hemisphere that it long has planned. It is investing $135 million in Embratel’s satellite Ivision […]

As satellite business executives look forward to the first years of the 21st century, they can expect the landscape of multimedia space-based applications to remain turbulent. More than ever, in […]

Investors are optimistic with L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. [LLL], sighting the company’s second quarter results show growth as well as continued integration success. The company reported revenue of $461 million, […]

The last in a series of powerful medium-data-rate (MDR) communications payloads for the U.S. Air Force Milstar satellite program was shipped by Hughes Space and Communications Co. [GMH] to Lockheed […]

International Launch Services (ILS) announced last week that it has received more than $1 billion in new launch orders through July 2000. The new business includes 13 firm launch orders […]

A significant milestone for the International Space Station was completed July 25 when the Russian service module Zvezda flawlessly locked down to the ISS orbiter after more than a year’s […]

Changes are needed in U.S. laws to stem continuing delays in the export of U.S. satellites and components, according to a letter from the California delegation in the U.S. House […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] said it successfully launched a Minotaur rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., July 19 carrying a multiple-experiment satellite for the Defense Department. At 4:09 p.m. […]

Spot Image Corp. has been named a U.S. Geological Survey business partner to distribute commercially Landsat 7 satellite images. To be named a business partner, Spot committed itself to the […]

Sea Launch officials breathed dawned smiles July 28 when the Russian and Ukrainian-built Zenit 3SL rocket rose from the Odyssey platform and successfully delivered its payload into orbit. Now, Sea […]

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (HCM) selected Orbcomm Global L.P. to monitor, track and control its fleet of general-purpose hydraulic excavators. The Information Excavator system, developed jointly by HCM and […]

Globalstar USA said it has expanded the geographic coverage of its services to include almost all of Alaska, regions of the North Pacific to the International Date Line, portions of […]

PhoenixNet Ltd. signed an agreement with Yahoo! Hong Kong to provide broadband-enabled services via satellite across the Asia Pacific region. According to the agreement, PhoenixNet will provide Yahoo! Hong Kong […]

The Societe Europeenee des Satellites, the Luxembourg-based satellite broadcaster that plans to start delivering the Internet via satellite later this year, and iBEAM Broadcasting Corp. [IBEM], a two-year-old Silicon Valley […]

Final Analysis Inc., which is building a Little LEO satellite system for data communications, has awarded further satellite construction contracts to General Dynamics Corp. [GD] and L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. […]

iSky completed a second round of financing, raising $137 million, toward the first phase of its planned Ka-band satellite system. Echostar Communications Corp. [DISH] was the lead investor in the […]

LAS VEGAS – The advent of satellite-delivered broadband services is one of the most “exciting” developments in the industry, Chuck Hewitt, president of the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association (SBCA), […]

Lessons Learned from Iridium, ICO, and Globalstar – Part I The communications satellite industry is facing a profound crisis. The financial disaster created by the Big LEO experiments has far-reaching […]

In an effort to put years of accounting problems behind it, Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] appointed a new chief financial officer (CFO). Garrett Pierce will become an executive vice president, […]