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[Satellite Today 03-13-09] Inmarsat earnings grew 12.5 percent in 2008 to $431.6 million, according to the company’s preliminary financial results released March 12.     Revenues increased by about 14 percent […]

[Satellite Today 03-13-09] Networkfleet Inc. has made high-resolution satellite and hybrid maps available to its flagship Networkfleet wireless fleet management system, the company announced March 11.     Networkfleet combines GPS […]

[Satellite Today 03-13-09] Uplogix, a provider of secure remote management solutions, named Transcendent Global Networks LLC a channel partner with a focus on satellite and energy markets, Uplogix announced March […]

Mark Holmes speaks with Khaled Derbas, chairman and general manager of SmartSat.

Mark Holmes speaks with Newtec CEO Serge Van Herck.

03.03.09 – Mark Holmes wraps up day one of Satellite MENA in Dubai.

Mark Holmes speaks with Khalid Balkheyour, CEO of Arabsat.

Mark Holmes speaks with Jawad Abbassi, general manager of Jordan-based Arab Advisors Group.

Mark Holmes speaks with Shawkat Ahmed, chief commercial officer of YahSat.

Jason Bates and Mark Holmes wrap up their coverage of the Satellite MENA 2009 show in Dubai.

Mark Holmes speaks with Christodoulos Protopapas, managing director of Hellas Sat.

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 […]

Our first trip to this Middle East communications was long overdue, as the region is forecasted to be one of the hot markets for the next several years. But while […]

[Satellite Today 03-12-09] AsiaSat will deregister from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and terminate its reporting obligations, the company announced March 10.     AsiaSat delisted its American depositary […]

[Satellite Today 03-12-09] Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) completed a full mission-duration firing of its Merlin vacuum engine March 7 at SpaceX’s test facility in McGregor, Texas, the company announced […]

[Satellite Today 03-12-09] ComDev reported a 26 percent increase in revenue in its first quarter of 2009, at $56.5 million compared to $44.9 million in 2008, the company announced March […]

[Satellite Today 03-12-09] Bourbon, a French marine services group, has chosen Orange Business Services for the modernization of the communications system for its fleet of 150 vessels, Orange announced March […]

[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 […]

As the Middle East market continues to produce for satellite operators, more regional players are trying to develop capacity to keep the revenues closer to home. But global players such […]

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 […]

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.     […]

[Satellite Today 03-11-09] TeamCast is releasing Power4-T2, the first version of its DVB-T2 modulator, the company announced March 10.     The company said the solution had just completed DVB-T2 testing, […]

[Satellite Today 03-11-09] Swe-Dish Satellite Systems unveiled its FA120KS Fly-Away satellite communications terminal with multi-band capability, the company announced March 10.     The FA120KS is being marketed for voice, video […]

[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 […]

[Satellite Today 03-11-09] Raytheon, along with Northrop Grumman and the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Integrated Program Office have deployed and demonstrated the ground segment’s interface data processing […]