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[Satellite Today 03-12-09] Sirius XM Radio added about 83,000 new subscribers at the end of the year, well short of the 1.1 million subscribers the company added in the fourth...

[Satellite Today 03-12-09] Thales Alenia Space has won a contract with JSC ISS-Reshetnev Co. to supply the Telkom-3 communications satellite payload, the company announced March 11.     ISS is the...

[Satellite Today 03-12-09] International Launch Services (ILS) has been contracted by ViaSat to the launch the ViaSat-1 satellite on an ILS Proton in the first half of 2011, ILS announced...

The government of Abu Dhabi has agreed to sign a $20 million contract with Israel-based ImageSat for access to images taken by the Eros-B satellite, ImageSat announced Feb. 22.    ...

Al Baghdadia TV has ordered three 1.2-meter Advent Newswift vehicle-mounted satellite antennas from Vislink’s news and entertainment business unit.     The Advent Newswifts are HD capable and will enable Al...

Measat Satellite Systems received confirmation from Intelsat that the Measat-3a satellite has been scheduled for launch in June.     The launch of the satellite on a land launch Zenit-3SLB vehicle,...

Thuraya has launched a satellite-based Public Calling Office (PCO) service in Zambia and Cameroon, the company announced March 10.     Thuraya’s PCO is a telephone unit providing voice, data and...

[Satellite Today 03-11-09] Twenty First Century Systems (21CSI) has entered into an agreement with Infoterra to become the U.S. distributor of its satellite based synthetic aperture radar TerraSAR-X services, 21CSI...

[Satellite Today 03-11-09] International Datacasting Corp. (IDC), in partnership with its Australian-based distributor, OmniCast, received an order from Global Vision Networks for the provision of a digital cinema broadband distribution...

[Satellite Today 03-11-09] Thuraya has launched a satellite-based Public Calling Office (PCO) service in Zambia and Cameroon, the company announced March 10.     Thuraya’s PCO is a telephone unit providing...