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African satellite services provider GS Telecom has installed a high-rise teleport in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique, to provide telecommunications services throughout the country. GS Telecom is installing a ViaSat...

Raytheon [NYSE: RTN] will provide an integrated electronics suite (IES) for the Italian Navy‘s multi-purpose vessel program under a foreign military award of $31.8 million equipping the Italian government with...

In its year-end results, Modern Times Group (MTG) said it added net 28,000 new digital subscribers for its direct-to-home pay-TV services in Scandinavia in the fourth quarter. Its pay-TV operations...

The last launch of an Ariane 4 rocket will occur early Friday if weather conditions that postponed the mission today and Wednesday improve sufficiently, Arianespace officials said. A decision is...

SES Astra, a unit of SES Global [Luxembourg: SESG; Frankfurt: SDSL],and Ideal Shopping Direct have signed a new agreement for digital satellite capacity at 28.2 degrees East to launch the...

Boeing‘s [NYSE: BA] Air Traffic Management (ATM) and Connexion by Boeing units demonstrated the feasibility of enhancements to the National Airspace System intended to improve the capacity, efficiency, safety and...

KVH Industries [Nasdaq: KVHI] is launching a satellite communications system designed for maritime use–the Tracphone F55. The Tracphone F55 uses Inmarsat’s satellites to offer leisure and small commercial vessels voice...

Diebold [NYSE: DBD] has contracted with Spacenet, the U.S. subsidiary of Israel’s Gilat Satellite Networks [Nasdaq: GILTF], to become an authorized channel partner of Spacenet’s Connexstar business-grade satellite broadband service....

Satellite communications provider Maritime Telecommunications Networks‘(MTN) plans to expand its reach beyond its core cruise ship business into the oil and gas arena took a step forward this week when...

The speed and direction of high-altitude winds led French launch firm Arianespace to stop the launch countdown before the scheduled liftoff of the final Ariane 4 rocket in the early...