Author: Staff Writer

New Skies Satellites B.V. donated satellite transmission services for a Dec. 19 TV broadcast by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies for an anti-malaria campaign. The...

Andrew Corp. will move assets acquired from Channel Master LLC into a new facility in Wayne County, N.C., in 2006 and expand the company’s workforce, North Carolina Governor Mike Easley...

Boeing Co. appointed Jeff Trauberman to the position of vice president of business development in the Space and Intelligence business unit of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems. Trauberman has been with...

SES Astra selected International Launch Services (ILS) to launch the Astra 1KR satellite, SES announced Dec. 21. The satellite, the first SES Astra mission for ILS, will be launched from...

Wildblue Communications announced Dec. 21 its intentions to “aggressively” enter the enterprise VSAT market in the first quarter of 2006 with its high-speed Internet access via satellite. Wildblue will offer...

Broadcast International said Dec. 20 it signed an agreement with Producers Management Television (PMTV) to provide satellite network equipment, installation, integration, service, maintenance and help desk support for Harrah’s Entertainment...

The Allied Defense Group Inc. announced Dec. 21 David Collins has been named president of Seaspace Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary that manufactures Terascan hardware and software products that provide...

The Russian Space Agency postponed the launch of the Kazsat satellite until the first half of 2006 due to unspecified technical problems, according to a Dec. 21 report by the...

Sirius Satellite Radio will provide live broadcasts of the Christmas Midnight Mass and the Christmas Day Mass Dec. 25 from St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. The Midnight Mass...

XM Satellite Radio said Dec. 20 that former National Hockey League (NHL) superstar Mark Messier signed a marketing agreement to promote XM’s broadcasts of NHL games and NHL talk radio...