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Pace Micro Technology will launch its XTV integrated sat-box plus hard drive unit this quarter, according to CEO Malcolm Miller. He confirmed the highly specified box will not receive a...

Cologne-based Deutsche Welle (DW) will launch a new European bouquet on AsiaSat 2 on January 22. Dr Burkhard Nowotny, DW’s director of international distribution, said deals with four TV stations...

France Telecom-owned satellite service provider Globecast says it will beam a new digital multiplex of channels to the UK from Eurobird, “and we may be taking extra capacity,” says CEO...

Italian national broadcaster Retemia is set to change its name to Hot Italia and be majority owned by a German company. Retemia was founded at the beginning of the 1980s...

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: A – Analogue D – Digital 75°E: LMI-1 A Israel’s IBA Channel 2 has launched on 12638MHz horizontal...

The satellite launch of E4 is turning into an episode of Perry Mason. While test transmissions continue ahead of its January 18 launch we’re still waiting for Paul Drake to...

On the third attempt of last week Turksat 2A, which was previously called Eurasiasat 1, was launched into space from French Guyana and placed into orbit by an Ariane 4...

By Clayton Mowry My son Nathaniel is only one-and-a-half years old but he’s already learned the concept of sharing. When his pal Lucy comes by to play, he knows he...

By Gerry Oberst This column has focused frequently on the backlog in registering satellites in the International Telecommunication Union master registry of orbital positions. Last April, we wrote about “Paper...

by Peter J. Brown Wars and natural disasters strike this planet far too frequently, leaving thousands of victims in their wakes. Satellite technology is vital to the mission of those...