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Orbcomm Asia Ltd. filed a $50 million breach of contract lawsuit earlier this month against Orbcomm Inc. and its Orbcomm LLC and Orbcomm Holdings LLC affiliates. The suit alleges Orbcomm...

DirecTV Inc. announced a deal that will bring it six new channels aimed at the Filipino market and more than 80,000 subscribers to its direct-to-home satellite television service. DirecTV joined...

The June 21 failure of a Volna rocket that destroyed the Planetary Society‘s solar sail experiment was caused by premature shut-down of the first-stage engine. In its report to the...

Astrata Group Inc. signed an agreement with Denmark’s North Securities ApS to provide a GPS-based vehicle tracking system, Astrata announced July 20. Under the $3 million contract, Astrata will provide...

More than 50 percent of all worldwide digital set-top boxes will be produced in China by 2010, according to IMS Research. In 2004, China produced more than 17 million digital...

DirecTV Inc. added ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp.‘s Filipino entertainment and services package to DirecTV’s lineup. DirecTV also acquired ABS-CBN’s current direct- to-home satellite service subscribers. The deal between the two companies...

SES Astra awarded the manufacturing contract for the Astra 1M television broadcasting satellite to EADS Astrium, SES Astra announced July 21. EADS Astrium will supply the payload and the platform,...

Iran plans to launch its Mesbah communications satellite before the end of the year, according to a July 20 report by Russia’s Novosti news agency. “The project on the launch...

Raytheon Co.‘s Space and Airborne Systems delivered the first flight-ready GPS system for the U.S. Air Force‘s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter test aircraft, Raytheon announced July 21. The system, which...

MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. received a contract from the Canadian Space Agency to continue work on the Canadian contribution to a NASA Mars mission, the company announced July 20....