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Bus users in Nottingham will be able to receive real-time travel information on their mobile phones using a system provided by Netsize, Echo Billing and the Nottingham City Council. The...

France’s La Poste is using satellite-based interactive kiosks supplied by direct-to-home satellite operator SES Astra and broadband satellite operator Satlynx. The “Cyberkiosque” offers access to interactive broadband satellite services based...

Canadian satellite companies Infosat Communications and Quick Link Communications have completed a merger. Infosat Communications, a subsidiary Telesat Canada, is a satellite telecommunications system integrator and services provider serving business...

The government of Taiwan has sent its second satellite, ROCSAT 2, to the United States for launch into orbit early next year. The satellite will be delivered to Vandenberg Air...

CSI Wireless, a Canadian designer and manufacturer of GPS and wireless products, has received an initial C$2.1 million purchase order from RHS for CSI’s new GPS- assisted automatic steering system....

Intelsat Government Solutions has been awarded a subcontract to provide a turnkey satellite communications system to support Bechtel National Inc.’s effort in coordinating the U.S. infrastructure reconstruction program in Iraq....

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has recently awarded contracts worth C$65 million (US$50 million) in space technology contracts to the Canadian aerospace industry. Forty contracts valued at C$17.4 million (US$13.4...

An Atlas IIAS rocket successfully lifted off Tuesday at 2:04 a.m. PST (10:04 GMT) from Vandenberg Air Force Base carrying a national security payload for the U.S. Air Force and...

Stratos Global [Toronto: SGB], a Bethesda, Md.-based telecommunication provider, and Inmarsat, a London-based mobile satellite operator, have renewed their distribution agreement under which Stratos will distribute Inmarsat services using next-generation...

Hughes Network Systems [NYSE: GSH], a Germantown, Md.-based provider of broadband satellite products, is introducing its latest DirecWay terminal, the DW6000, into the European market. The DW6000 eliminates the requirement...