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Conditional access technology vendor NDS will play a key role in developing the direct-to-home (DTH) market in India, Alex Gersh, the company’s chief financial offer, said. NDS will be providing...

After a three-year effort, Telenor Satellite Services received the necessary concession from the Brazilian government to offer Inmarsat satellite service directly to customers in the country rather than through Telenor’s...

In an effort to counter potential terrorists, increasingly sophisticated pirates and smugglers, Zoca Container Security BV is gearing up for the commercial release of a new marine shipping container security...

Teles Wireless Broadband Managing Director Andreas Kruger believes the United Kingdom is a potentially lucrative market for satellite broadband services. The company hopes to exploit the success of BSkyB in...

If the Chinese government is going to achieve its goal of analog signal switch-off by 2015, then satellite will play a key role, an industry analyst said. However, the satellite...

An Ariane 5 rocket lofted the long-awaited Shin Satellite Plc‘s IPStar satellite into orbit Aug. 11, Arianespace announced. The spacecraft, with a launch mass of 6,485 kilograms, is the largest...

Xantic received a contract from NATO to provide Inmarsat services for deployed forces, the company announced Aug. 11. Under the agreement with the NATO Consultation, Command & Control Agency, Xantic...

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has shipped more than 30 Skyedge commercial hubs and more than 10,000 Skyedge VSATs worldwide, the company announced Aug. 11. The Skyedge system is based on...

The European Commission (EC) cleared the merger of the government launch operations of Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co. into the United Launch Alliance joint venture. According to an Aug....

After two delays for a combination of weather and technical reasons, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was launched Aug. 12 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft was...