Westar Satellite Opens New York Broadcast Facility
Westar Satellite Services said it will complete its new “on-ramp” facility in New York next month. The site in lower Manhattan will enable rapid distribution of video, data and voice...
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NFL Network Added To Dish Programming
Echostar Communications Corp. announced earlier this week it added NFL Network as part of the America’s Top 120 for its Dish Network direct-to-home satellite television service. NFL Network provides around-the-clock...
Quake Unveils New Satellite Modem
Quake Global Inc. introduced Sept. 16 it new Q1000 satellite modem, which the company said would work on any satellite system. Measuring just 2.5 inches square by 0.6 inches thick,...
Boeing Space And Intelligence Systems Appoints Vice President/General Manager
Boeing announced Sept. 13 that Howard Chambers was named vice president and general manager of Space And Intelligence Systems (S&IS), an operating division of Integrated Defense Systems. Chambers is responsible...
At Press Time: Orbimage Buys Space Imaging
Orbimage Holdings Inc. agreed to acquire the assets of Space Imaging LLC, Orbimage announced Sept. 16. Dulles, Va.-based Orbimage, which operates the Orbview-3 high-resolution imagery satellite, will pay about $58.5...
Mobile Satellite Ventures Appoints Vice President of Corporate Development
Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) appointed Ali Asghar vice president of corporate development. Asghar joins MSV from America Online where he led the company’s alternative broadband development. Previously, Asghar was with...
Canadian Government Upholds Satellite Radio Licensing Decision
With a promise to boost Canadian content, Canadian Satellite Radio and Sirius Canada, the Canadian satellite partners of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio, respectively, had their licenses to...
Sirius Goes Mobile On Sprint
Sprint announced Sept. 13 that its wireless customers will be able to listen to Sirius Satellite Radio programming via their mobile phones. The offer delivers 20 commercial-free music channels, plus...
SES IPTV Platform Arrives At Perfect Time
The future for Internet protocol television (IPTV) services distributed by telecommunications service providers received a boost earlier this month when Gov. Rick Perry of Texas signed into law a bill...
U.S. Air Force Taps Iridium For Meteorological Observing System
The U.S. Air Force is completing the worldwide deployment of more than 280 tactical meteorological data collection systems that provide mission-critical weather data to war planners and decision makers via...