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[Satellite Today 10-09-08] ICO Global Communications (ICO) is the latest operator to bid for a pan-European mobile license, the company announced Oct 8.     ICO’s European subsidiary, ICO Satellite Ltd., […]

[Satellite Today 10-09-08] Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has been awarded a contract to build the SES Sirius 5 satellite for SES, the manufacturer announced Oct. 9.     Sirius 5, based on […]

Inmarsat plans to support a new entry-level FleetBroadband terminal, the FB150, developed for the small fishing, leisure and business vessels market from mid-2009, the company announced.     The FB150 terminals […]

Streambox Inc. and Thrane & Thrane have forged a partnership to develop enhanced integration between the Streambox ACT-L3 portable video transport solutions and Thrane & Thrane’s Explorer 700 and Explorer […]

Scopus unveiled a new network monitoring system, Eldorado, which features a customizable architecture for management of resources across networks, the company announced.     Eldorado is equipped with several wizard-based redundancy […]

Vizada unveiled new additions to its Solutions portfolio, which aim to optimize the basic broadband and IP-based connectivity services of mobile satellite network operators, Vizada announced.     These additions, which […]

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (SingTel) formed a joint venture with Chunghwa Telecom to build the ST-2 satellite.      This satellite is targeted to be delivered in 2010 and will replace the […]

SES Americom will provide Canby Telcom’s IPTV customers in Oregon access to 36 channels of high-definition (HD) programming, including more than two dozen channels delivered to Canby via IP-Prime, the […]

Newtec has selected Altera Corp.’s Cyclone 2 Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) to deliver broadband services to its Sat3Play broadband terminal, Newtec announced.     The Sat3Play broadband terminal is part of […]

Cybernet has implemented a satellite-based IP network built on iDirect’s Evolution DVB-S2 product line with adaptive coding and modulation, iDirect announced.     According to Cybernet, the new network allows it […]

SES New Skies has signed a capacity deal with SkyVision, a provider of Internet services over satellite and terrestrial fiber optic systems, SES New Skies said.     SkyVision renewed contracts […]

[Satellite Today 10-08-08] Viasat Broadcasting, a subsidiary of the Modern Times Group (MTG) has launched MTV’s HD channel, MTVHD, on its pay-TV satellite platform in the Nordic region, Viasat announced […]

[Satellite Today 10-08-08] Globalstar Inc. has launched a satellite-based remote automated utility meter reading interface (MRI) solution designed to communicate with meters located in areas not served by the traditional […]

[Satellite Today 10-08-08] The U.S. Air Force delayed the launch of the Lockheed Martin-built next-generation military weather satellite, DMSP-F18.     According to a statement from the Air Force, the launch, […]

[Satellite Today 10-08-08] The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), Australia’s multicultural and multilingual public broadcaster, has selected Tandberg Television’s Internet protocol-based iSIS 8000 headend architecture for its digital terrestrial television network, […]

[Satellite Today 10-08-08] Harris Corp. received an order to provide systems integration and information technology services to the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Harris announced Oct. 8.     NGA is […]

[Satellite Today 10-08-08] Thaicom’s satellite broadband plans in New Zealand have been boosted by the take-up of a new retail broadband package, which is “significantly” increasing subscriber numbers, Thaicom said […]

[Satellite Today 10-08-08] SES Astra’s Astra 1M satellite will be launched aboard a Proton Breeze M rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Oct. 31, the company said Oct. 8.     […]

[Satellite Today 10-08-08] Spacenet Inc. has expanded coverage for its commercial grade Connexstar service to include select countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the company announced Oct. 8. […]

[Satellite Today 10-08-08] Telesat‘s Nimiq 4 satellite completed in-orbit tests and has been placed at the 82 degrees West orbital slot, manufacturer EADS Astrium announced Oct. 8.     Nimiq 4 […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] A consolidated securities class action lawsuit against Globalstar Inc. and its officers was dismissed Sept. 30 by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] Vizada said that its Iridium sales have spiked 70 percent over the past month due to the new batch activation capability now available for Iridium subscribers using […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] Norsat International Inc. is set to launch its new miniaturized Ku-band block up-converter (BUC), the company announced Oct. 7.     The product is packaged in a 3-kilogram […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] Tesacom, Stratos Global and Addvalue Communications joined forces to deploy a 1,200-site Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) mobile satellite network to support the first round of Brazil’s […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] C-Com Satellite Systems Inc. reported revenues of 2.4 million Canadian dollars ($2.2 million) for its third quarter ending Aug. 31, 2008 and a net income of 780,622 […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] DigitalGlobe has signed a multi-year contract with Microsoft Corp. to provide the software giant’s Virtual Earth program with DigitalGlobe satellite and aerial imagery, the companies announced Oct. […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] DataPath Inc. received an order to provide on-site personnel to operate and maintain satellite communications systems managed by the U.S. Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, DataPath announced […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] ViaSat Inc. is nearly doubling the coverage area for its mobile broadband network by expanding to the North Pacific Ocean region, the company announced Oct. 7.     […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] Dish Network signed national content and hardware distribution agreements with Pace International and the newly formed Pace CSO Inc., Dish Network announced Oct. 7.      According to […]

[Satellite Today 10-07-08] Solaris Mobile submitted its S-Band spectrum application for harmonized European Union mobile services to the European Commission, the company said Oct. 7. The European Commission launched a […]