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XM Satellite Radio said it added more than 540,000 new net subscribers during the first quarter of 2005, bringing the total number of XM subscribers to 3.77 million. The subscriber...

Intelsat said Firestone Communications Inc. expanded its use of the Intelsat Americas fleet of satellites for distribution of cable programming in North America. The terms of the long-term contract call...

Sky Network Television Limited (SKY) CEO John Fellet told Satellite Today that the operator needs to keep gaining about 40,000 subscribers a year to maximize profits and boost its overall...

The Russian Satellite Communications Co. said the Russian Express-AM2 was successfully launched March 29 on a Proton-K rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 10:31 p.m. GMT. In-orbit testing...

As Satellite News went to press, no announcement had been made regarding the fate of Rainbow DBS, the business unit of Cablevision that offers direct-to-home (DTH) satellite television services under...

It was a grim-faced panel of satellite manufacturing executives that faced delegates during the “Satellite Manufacturing: Building Confidence with ‘Basics” session during the SATELLITE 2005 conference and exhibition. “I have...

For the motion picture industry, much is on the horizon when it comes to content protection and dissemination, which may provide an even stronger business success model for satellite-enabled transmission...

The Southern Co., an electricity producer for the Southeastern United States, has used satellite imagery gathered throughout the course of a recently completed three- year project to help increase the...

By Gerry Oberst In January 2003, the European Commission issued a consultation green paper to initiate new discussions on Europe’s activities in space. It looks as if the European Union...

Commercial satellite operators who have looked upon the U.S. government as a consistent customer can rest easy in the knowledge that the increased demand of commercial capacity by the government...