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New Skies Considers Options

New Skies Satellites [NYSE: NSK] has completed its share buy back program, buying back over 13 million shares. The completion of the program was announced on Sept. 3. Andrew Browne,...

The Challenge Next Time

By Maury Mechanick Having recently returned from the International Satellite & Communications Exchange Conference and Expo held in Long Beach, Calif., in late August, I was struck by the positive...

Loral Makes Tough Sacrifice to Stay Alive

By Bharadwaj Ramesh, Industry Analyst, and Patrick French, Strategic Analyst, Frost & Sullivan (Editor’s Note: This article was written before EchoStar [Nasdaq: DISH] made an informal offer for Loral Space...

AsiaSat Hopes For AsiaSat 4 Success

AsiaSat has had a tough first six months of 2003. It saw its profits and revenue drop compared to the first six months of 2002. However, despite tough market conditions,...

Satellite Industry To Benefit from Earth Summit

Commercial opportunities for satellite imagery and manufacturing should arise from the international effort to coordinate and integrate information on the Earth’s environment. World governments are likely to need images and...

Editor's Note

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Transponder Monitor

78.5ºE: Thaicom 2&3 D Indiavision is testing intermittently on 3686 MHz horizontal, SR 3333, FEC 3/4, VPID 1160, APID 1120. Occasional feed traffic for TVT Channel 11 can be found...

Pace Gets Key Foothold In Germany

Pace Micro Technology is set to become a key player in the German pay-TV market after signing a number of agreements with satellite pay-TV provider Premiere. In one agreement, Pace...

Hughes, Telesat Ink Deal

Hughes Network Systems, a subsidiary of Hughes Electronics [NYSE: GMH], has signed a three-year agreement with Canadian satellite operator Telesat to provide technical support for Telesat’s telecommunications and broadcasting services...