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[Satellite Today 10-10-08] EchoStar Corp. appointed Joseph Clayton to the company’s board effective Oct. 7. This appointment increases the size of EchoStar’s board from seven to eight members.      Clayton […]

[Satellite Today 10-10-08] Parallel, a satellite communications company, signed a contract with Ship Equip of Norway to supply the company with enterprise grade satellite network management software suite, SatManage.     […]

[Satellite Today 10-10-08] Office des Postes et Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT) signed a multi-transponder contract for capacity on Intelsat’s new satellite, IS-18.     The contract, which spans the 15-year […]

[Satellite Today 10-10-08] International Datacasting Corp. (IDC), a satellite broadband multimedia content distributor, has been selected by The Radio Network (TRN) in New Zealand to modernize the broadcaster’s satellite distribution, […]

[Satellite Today 10-09-08] Premiere, the German pay-TV operator, has seen another top executive resign as the fallout over inflated subscriber figures continued.     Oliver Kaltner, chief marketing and sales officer, […]

[Satellite Today 10-09-08] Intelsat has appointed Michael McDonnell CFO and executive vice president, the company announced Oct. 9.     McDonnell comes to Intelsat from MCG Capital Corp., a publicly-held commercial […]

[Satellite Today 10-09-08] GeoEye released an initial image of Kutztown University, located in Pennsylvania, following the launch of the GeoEye-1 satellite and its ITT-built imaging payload, GeoEye announced Oct. 9. […]

[Satellite Today 10-09-08] Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) has been awarded several patents for network-assisted GPS  methods and terminals by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, MSV announced Oct. 9.     […]

[Satellite Today 10-09-08] Glowlink has been awarded a contract by an unnamed major U.S. broadcast network to provide a carrier management system, Glowlink Oct. 9.     Glowlink’s Model 1000 carrier […]

 [Satellite Today 10-09-08] ViaSat Inc. was awarded an additional lot order for Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS) terminals from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command in San Diego, ViaSat […]

[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 […]