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[09/05/07 – Satellite Today] Hughes Network Systems LLC is providing remote areas of Siberia with remote satellite terminals, the company announced Sept. 4. Hughes is providing the technology to Iskra...

ND SatCom‘s technology partner, Augsburg, Germany-based satellite newsgathering service provider rt1.tv, will launch a new service this summer, ND SatCom announced Sept. 3. The service, dubbed Comfort.link, includes a network...

Newtech and SES Astra signed a cooperation agreement to test and demonstrate a new way to deliver television content, the company said Sept. 4. The managed satellite distribution system will...

Boeing Co.‘s Family of Advanced Beyond line-of-sight Terminals (FAB-T) has demonstrated that it can acquire an operational satellite and complete downlink data transmissions, the company announced Sept. 4. The FAB-T...

Lockheed Martin has begun production on a reconfigured GPS 2R-M satellite to temporarily transmit a third civil signal, the company said Sept. 4. Lockheed is working with ITT under a...

Arabsat will distribut3 the BBC‘s Arabic TV station to the Middle East, Southern Mediterranean and Europe, Arabsat announced Sept. 3. The station, which is scheduled to launch in late 2007,...

Newtec is launching its Equalink modulator feature, the company announced Sept. 3. Equalink is designed to compensate for the effects of imperfections in the filters and amplifiers of a satellite....

[09/03/07 – Satellite Today] Datacom Wireless Corp. completed its acquisition of Vigil Locating Systems Technologies Inc. after securing approval from regulatory authorities and shareholders of both companies, Datacom announced. Datacom,...

[09/03/07 – Satellite Today] The U.S. Air Force Global Positioning Systems Wing passed the initial integrated system test on the first GPS Block 2F satellite Aug. 27, the Air Force...

[09/03/07 – Satellite Today] Rocket segments for the Zenit-3SL system arrived at Sea Launch’s in preparation for the launch of the Thuraya 3 satellite in October as well as planned...