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By Jimmy Schaeffler Top investor relations officials from both Washington-based XM Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: XMSR] and New York-based Sirius Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: SIRI] recently offered their views about why both...

OpenTV [Nasdaq: OPTV], a San Francisco, Calif-based interactive television firm, announced Friday that its game and entertainment channel, PlayJam, has launched an interactive TV version of its Tetris game on...

New Skies Satellites‘ [NYSE: NSK] CEO Dan Goldberg believes there will be consolidation in the satellite industry in the next year or so. Goldberg told SATELLITE TODAY: “I do think...

Thuraya-2, the second satellite built by Boeing [NYSE:BA] for Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, is set to launch June 10. The satellite will be lifted into...

A Bush White House spectrum policy initiative, unveiled Thursday, is creating serious angst among some officials within the Department of Defense (DoD). President Bush has ordered the Department of Commerce...

Reston, Va.-based Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) filed an application Thursday with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to add an ancillary terrestrial component (ATC) to its L -band mobile satellite service...

EMS Technologies [Nasdaq: ELMG] said its SARMaster search-and-rescue (SAR) information system is being used for the first personal locator beacon (PLB) deployment in Vermont on July 1. EMS also will...

The European Space Agency is providing data from its Earth observation satellites to monitor the tropical forests in French Guiana and help the French government meet its obligations under the...

A Boeing [NYSE: Boeing] Delta II rocket is scheduled to launch the first of two Mars Exploration Rover (MER) missions for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Sunday. The...

Telenor [Nasdaq: TELN] Satellite Services said it expects commercial launch of Inmarsat Fleet F55 and Fleet F33 services during the third quarter this year. The new services provide small to...