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[Satellite Today 07-02-09] SES placed a five-year, 650 million euro ($915.61 million) bond, the company announced July 1.     The bond represents the company’s first benchmark Euro bond placement since...

[Satellite Today 07-02-09] VSD and SES Americom subsidiary Americom Government Services (AGS) completed negotiations to transition programming responsibilities for the Television Direct to Sailors (TV-DTS) terminal program from AGS to...

[Satellite Today 07-02-09] Arianespace has launched TerreStar-1 into geostationary transfer orbit, TerreStar confirmed July 1.     Terrestar-1, the largest commercial satellite ever placed into orbit, was launched at 1:52 p.m....

[Satellite Today 07-02-09] Globalstar has completed its financing of $738 million that will fund the company’s next-generation satellite system, Globalstar announced July 1.     The total financing combines a $586...

[Satellite Today 07-02-09] A technical investigation of Solaris Mobile’s S-band payload on Eutelsat’s W2A satellite has revealed, “significant non-compliances from its original specifications,” according to a Solaris Mobile statement released...

Reynald Seznec succeeded Pascale Sourisse as CEO of Thales Alenia Space in May 2008, taking over a company with a strong backlog that included the next-generation constellation for Globalstar. He...

TECHNOLOGY Comtech EF Data Introduces Point-To-Multipoint Modem for Satellite IP Delivery Comtech EF Data unveiled its CDM-740 Satellite Modem — a high performance architecture featuring an integrated DVB-S/-S2 receiver and...

[Satellite Today 07-01-09] The U.S. Air Force awarded a $30 million contract to Lockheed Martin to begin concept development for Space Fence, a system of land-based S-band radars supporting operations...

[Satellite Today 07-01-09] SES Astra signed a transponder deal with BSkyB to provide 24 transponders on a long-term basis at Astra’s 28.2 degrees East orbital position, SES announced June 30....

[Satellite Today 07-01-09] The management of the development and validation phase of the Galileo satellite navigation program “was inadequate” and the proposal for a public-private partnership to oversee the venture...