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Stratos Offers BGAN Mobile Satellite Service To Japan
Stratos Global Corp. has struck a partnership with Japan Digital Communications (JDC) to introduce Inmarsat BGAN mobile satellite service to Japan, Stratos announced June 20. BGAN is now available in […]
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SAT-GE Open For Business In Asia Pacific Region
GE International Holdings Inc., a holding company for General Electric Co.’s satellite businesses, is now doing business under the name of Sat-GE. Using the GE-23 (formerly AMC-23) satellite at 172° […]
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Intelsat Launches Global Maritime Solution
Intelsat Ltd. has launched a new Network Broadband Global Maritime service among its GlobalConnex portfolio of services, and signed a multi-year distribution agreement with Schlumberger, Intelsat announced June 19. Utilizing […]
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Lockheed Martin Enters Production Phase For MUOS
The Lockheed Martin team developing the U.S. Department of Defense’s Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) of next-generation narrowband tactical satellite communications has completed a series of reviews with the U.S. […]
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DigitalGlobe Adds To Image Library Expansion
Imagery and geospatial information provider DigitalGlobe plans to collect more than 106,500 square miles of U.S. aerial imagery during the second half of 2007, the company announced June 19. Ready-to-purchase […]
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Arianespace Chosen To Launch Thor-6 For Telenor Satellite Broadcasting AS
Telenor Satellite Broadcasting AS, a subsidiary of Norwegian mobile operator Telenor, has hired Arianespace to loft its Thor-6 satellite, Arianespace announced June 20. Thor-6 will be launched into geostationary transfer […]
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Satellite Today Blog From CommunicAsia
All this week, SatelliteToday.com will feature the latest news from CommunicAsia 2007. Be sure to check out the live Blog at www.SatelliteToday.com/blog for updates on the goings-on in Singapore.
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SES Americom’s Turnkey IP-Prime Now Available To North American Telcos
SES Americom, an SES company, is now offering commercial availability of its Internet protocol television (IPTV) solution, IP-Prime, the company announced June 19. The system affords telecommunications companies the ability […]
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Norsat Launches Chinese Language Version of Its Transportable Satellite Terminal User Interface
Norsat International Inc., a provider of intelligent satellite solutions, announced June 19 its rollout of a Chinese language version of its LinkControl user interface software at CommunicAsia 2007 in Singapore. […]
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Study Estimates Broadband Service Revenue To Exceed $4.6 Billion by 2011
Service revenue for the entire satellite industry will increase at an average annual rate of more than 11 percent over the coming five years, according to a recent study by […]
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EMS Satcom Completes SwiftBroadband Flight Tests On Corporate Transatlantic Flights
EMS Satcom, a division of EMS Technologies Inc., has conducted more than 300 hours’ in-flight testing of its Early Entry SwiftBroadband communications system aboard two Boeing Business Jet aircraft. The […]
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ND SatCom Offers SkyWAN Platform For Government, Defense Applications
ND SatCom, an SES Astra company and global supplier of satellite-based broadband VSAT, broadcast, government and defense communications, is offering modem technology integrated to the ND SatCom SkyWAN IDU 7000, […]
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IGC Teams With Thrane & Thrane To Offer Combined Iridium/Inmarsat System
International Communications Group (ICG) and Thrane & Thrane will expand the number of voice channels and increase the flexibility of channel types available to users by integrating ICG’s ICS-200 dual-channel […]
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Thales Alenia Space To Supply Repeater Equipment For Russian Satellites
Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with Russian satellite manufacturer NPO-PM to supply two repeater equipment sets for the Loutch-5A and Loutch-5B communications satellites ordered by the Russian space […]
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Arianespace, SES Sign Multi-Launch Contract
The SES group and Arianespace have agreed to a framework contract guaranteeing launch services for several satellites deployed by the global operator SES, Arianespace announced June 18. The agreement calls […]
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Lockheed Martin Nears Delivery Of BSAT-3A and JCSAT-11 Spacecraft
Lockheed Martin is preparing to deliver spacecraft to a pair of Japan-based companies, Lockheed Martin announced June 19. The BSAT-3A satellite for the Broadcasting Satellite System Corp. (B-SAT) and the […]
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BC Partners To Purchase Majority Share Of Intelsat For $5.0 Billion
A majority stake in Intelsat Ltd., global provider of fixed satellite services, will be purchased from its parent company, Intelsat Holdings Ltd., by a group led by U.K.-based private equity […]
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Satellite Today Blog From CommunicAsia
Beginning June 19, SatelliteToday.com will feature the latest news from CommunicAsia 2007. Be sure to check out the live blog at www.SatelliteToday.com/blog for updates on the goings-on in Singapore.
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ProtoStar Opens Singapore Office, Appoints President of ProtoStar Asia
ProtoStar, a Bermuda corporation with principal U.S. operations in San Francisco, announced on June 18 its opening of a Singapore office. The company also named Eui Koh, former president of […]
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iDirect Looks To Expand Satellite Reach To Asia Pacific
iDirect Technologies (iDirect), a global provider of satellite-based broadband communications solutions and the U.S. satellite communications arm of Singapore Technologies Electronics Ltd., has expanded its presence in the Asia Pacific […]
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China Plans Third Sino-Brazilian Launch For September
The China National Space Administration is planning a September launch of a third Earth resources satellite jointly developed by China and Brazil, Xinhua has reported. The state-run newspaper quoted the […]
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XM Unveils New Radio Models
XM Satellite Radio is offering two new radio devices to its listeners, the company announced June 18. The XpressR offers a split-screen display of up to six channels with features […]
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Rockwell Collins International Picks EMS SATCOM
Rockwell Collins International has chosen EMS SATCOM, a division of EMS Technologies Inc., to develop a satcom system for the Boeing 747-8, EMS Technologies announced June 18. Based on orders […]
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Lockheed Martin Announces AEHF Integration Milestone
Lockheed Martin has integrated the spacecraft propulsion core structure and the payload module for the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite, the company announced June 18. The Advanced EHF […]
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Arabsat Signs European Companies To Build, Deliver 5th-Generation Satellites
Arabsat has signed a contract with a consortium of European companies, Astrium and Thales Alenia Space, to build its fifth-generation satellites, with Arianespace and ILS each agreed to launch one […]
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ILS Announces Separate Deals For Satellite Launches
International Launch Services (ILS) and SES Satellite Leasing announced a contract for five SES satellites to be launched on Proton Breeze M vehicles through 2013, ILS announced June 18. Financial […]
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Thales Alenia Space Signs $306.7M Deal with ESA
Thales Alenia Space has won a European Space Agency (ESA) contract worth 229 million euros ($306.7 million) for the first of five Earth observation satellite satellites for the Global Monitoring […]
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BC Partners To Pay $5 Billion For Majority Share Of Intelsat
A majority stake in Intelsat Ltd., the leading global provider of fixed satellite services, will be purchased from its parent company, Intelsat Holdings Ltd., by a group led by BC […]
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Dnepr Places TerraSAR-X Into Orbit
A Russian Dnepr rocket operated by Kosmotras lifted Germany’s TerraSAR-X radar satellite into orbit June 15, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and Kosmotras announced. TerraSAR-X, manufactured by EADS Astrium under […]
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JAXA Sets Launch Date For SELENE Satellite
The Selonological and Engineering Explorer (SELENE) satellite, also known as Kayuga, is scheduled to be launched aboard an H-2A booster on Aug. 16 (Aug. 15, 8:30:48 p.m. EST) from the […]