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NDS will provide software for set-top boxes that Dutch satellite pay-TV operator Canaldigitaal will use for its expansion into Belgium, Canaldigitaal announced. Canaldigitaal will begin distributing new STBs incorporating NDS’s...

Jean-Jacques Dordain will continue to serve as director general of the European Space Agency (ESA) for another four years, the agency announced June 22. Dordain joined ESA in 1986 and...

A Boeing Delta 2 launch vehicle carried a pair of experimental payload into orbit June 21 for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), U.S. Air Force and U.S....

Loral Skynet partnered with Go2Call to provide Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services to Asia’s telecommunications and ISP/Broadband carriers, businesses and government organizations. The partnership will combine Skynet’s Telstar satellite...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. began production June 20 of a full-scale trial unit of the upper and lower domes of the fuel tanks for the H-2B rocket, Japan’s next- generation...

Boeing announced June 21 that the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES-N) satellite has reached its orbital slot and now is controlled by NASA. The satellite has been renamed GOES-13 and...

Hughes Network Systems LLC introduced the HX System, a new broadband satellite platform, Hughes announced June 20. The system is intended to offer a cost-effective solution for smaller networks that...

Panamsat signed a deal with TVBI Co. Ltd. June 19 to distribute Chinese-language programming throughout the Asia Pacific region, the United States and Europe. The signal uplink from Hong Kong...

The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Stereo Airfield Collection program awarded Geoeye a $3.7 million contract to collect imagery of 365 airfields and produce mapping databases, Geoeye announced June 21....

DirecTV Inc. will provide a new luxury programming and service package called DirecTV Titanium, the company announced June 20. The package, priced at $7,500 per year, includes unlimited access to...