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Orbiting Wall Street

SIRI & XMSR Satellite radio continues to receive attention as Canadian-based partners of both Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio received licenses to offer satellite radio in Canada using...

Satmex Response Deadline Extended

Satelites Mexicanos S.A. de C.V. (Satmex) reached an agreement with debt holders who filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against the company to extend Satmex’s deadline for responding to the petition....

Arianespace To Launch BSat-3a

Arianespace announced June 14 that the Broadcasting Satellite System Corp. of Japan (BSat) awarded Arianespace a contract to launch the BSat-3a spacecraft. The satellite will be launched on an Ariane...

Sarsat Lives Saved Eclipses 5,000 Mark

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced last week that it has saved more than 5,000 people using the international Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking System (Sarsat). The...

EADS Astrium, Alcatel Space To Build Alphabus

EADS Astrium and Alcatel Space will jointly develop a new platform for next generation communications satellites, the companies announced June 16. The two companies will develop the platform, dubbed Alphabus,...