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Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. said its Spacenet Inc. subsidiary acquired all remaining shares of StarBand not already owned by Gilat and plans to merge the operations of StarBand into Spacenet....

Intelsat General Corp. (IGC) said it would launch its new GlobalConnex Network Broadband service today (March 8) at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association‘s TechNet Tampa trade show. The...

Satlynx acquired a significant volume of Xantic‘s VSAT business in a key deal announced today. Xantic, a Dutch company majority-owned by KPN, is focusing more on its mobile satellite communications...

The DirecTV Group Inc. said that effective March 7, Mitch Stern will no longer be the president and CEO of DirecTV Inc. Chase Carey, president and CEO of the DirecTV...

Watching the events unfold as the fate of Cablevision‘s Rainbow DBS direct-to-home satellite television business is being determined is in some ways as entertaining as the programs that are transmitted...

A winner between the two consortia in competition for the concession contract to operate the European Union’s (EU) Galileo satellite-based navigation system was supposed to be announced on March 1....

DigitalGlobe recently announced that Apache Corp. has joined the company’s enterprise partner program, a mechanism that streamlines access to geospatial products and provides quick and easy data viewing and ordering...

The B-2 Spirit bomber, which is undergoing a series of upgrades as part of its overall modernization program, will need an interim solution to accommodate a delay in its EHF...

ORLANDO, FL.-As part of the Pentagon’s continuing plans to shore up a coherent development strategy for a new space surveillance system and launch a demonstration satellite by 2008, the Air...

European direct-to-home (DTH)satellite television operators have seen some encouraging numbers in the final quarter of 2004. With all the results now in, Satellite News assesses the performances of the main...