XM Plans To Replay GM Debt Early
XM Satellite Radio Inc. is negotiating to pay some of its debt to General Motors (GM) early, XM said in an April 17 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange...
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Orbital Launches Weather Satellite Constellation For Taiwan
Orbital Sciences Corp. launched a constellation of small scientific satellites April 14 for Taiwan’s civilian space agency, Orbital announced. The Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate (COSMIC) mission,...
Andrew Acquires Precision Antennas
Andrew Corp., has acquired England’s Precision Antennas Ltd., a provider of antennas for terrestrial and satellite communications systems. Andrew paid about $26 million to acquire the subsidiary of U.K.-based Cobham...
Tivo Wins DVR Patent Lawsuit Against Echostar, Extends Deal With DirecTV
Following its win in a patent infringement lawsuit, Tivo Inc. now intends to seek a permanent injunction against Echostar Communications Corp. over the use of digital video recorder (DVR) technology,...
Kia To Offer Sirius Satellite Radio
Sirius Satellite Radio and Kia Motors America announced April 13 that Kia will exclusively offer Sirius as factory standard equipment in all of its vehicles. The agreement runs through 2014,...
Global Hawk
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded an $89.3 million cost plus award fee contract modification for the Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program includes the design build...
Hughes Closes Debt Financing Offer
Hughes Communications Inc. raised $450 million through an offering of notes by its wholly owned subsidiaries, Hughes Network Systems LLC (HNS) and HNS Finance Corp., Hughes announced April 13. The...
Lockheed Martin
Lockheed Martin Corp., Maritime Systems and Sensors, Manassas, Va., is being awarded a $21 million cost-plus-incentive-fee/award-fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-04-C-6207) for additional engineering services under acoustic rapid commercial...
Satellite Radio Awareness Up In 2006
Awareness of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio among people 12 and older has reached 61 percent, according to a study by Arbitron Inc. and Edison Media Research. Nearly...
Raytheon Systems
Raytheon Systems, Network Centric Systems, North, St. Petersburg, Fla., is being awarded a $19 million cost-plus-fixed-fee modification under contract (N00024-06-C-5101) to exercise an option for cooperative engagement capability (CEC) design...