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Satelites Mexicanos S.A. de C.V. (SatMex) Mexico’s predominant satellite service provider, announced June 8 that it was suspending its sale process for the company’s capital stock. Luis Rebollar, chairman of […]

DirecTV Latin America (DTVLA) could launch high-definition (HD) services in Latin America as early as this year. The operator, which has more than 4 million subscribers across all the major […]

Arabsat is one of the leading satellite operators in the Middle East and a key bandwidth provider to broadcasters, pay-TV operators and other businesses in the region. The dynamics of […]

Morgan Stanley Commits $250 Million Term Loan to Sirius Sirius Satellite Radio has obtained a $250 million senior secured term loan commitment from Morgan Stanley Senior Funding Inc., Sirius announced […]

DataPath is on the verge of completing its acquisition of European mobile satellite terminal vendor Swe-Dish Satellite Systems with a deal likely to be announced later in the month, a […]

Chunk Of Foam Is Lost, And Insulating Blanket Gap Seen Space Shuttle Atlantis thundered off Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39A on time at 7:38 p.m. ET Friday, boring into […]

Top Pentagon Weapons Buyer Krieg Resigns Effective July 20 By Dave Ahearn and Michael Sirak The Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) program, beset by cost overruns that could terminate it […]

Bush Terms Putin Offer ‘Interesting;’ Czechs To Get Technology Russian President Vladimir Putin, after using nuclear threats to challenge plans for a European ballistic missile defense (BMD) shield in the […]

The TSAT Mission Operations System (TMOS) led by Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] completed its system design review for the Air Force, Lockheed announced. Lasting two days, that concluded the system […]

European leaders are weighing an overhaul of financing and other matters for the lagging Galileo, a European version of the U.S.-led global positioning system, according to E.U. Transport Council chair […]

Some members of Congress are using arguments against U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) programs similar to assertions of opponent countries, according to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.). “We ought not to […]

While the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) weather and climate system may no longer suffer enormous soaring costs and lengthy program delays, thanks to abandoning plans for placing […]

Soyuz Launches Satellite From Plesetsk Cosmodrome A Soyuz spacecraft launched a government satellite from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, Starsem reported. It was the 1,722nd flight of a Soyuz launch […]

Japan may buy up to $475 million of Standard Missile-3 assets, a move coming as a belligerent North Korea increasingly demonstrates missile technology. The deal isn’t yet final. The Defense […]

Eurocopter, a unit of European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co., gave Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] a contract to help integrate the Hellfire II missile on the Hélicoptre d’Appui Destruction (HAD) […]

The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence gave a Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] unit an award of GBP250 million (US$125 million) in three contracts for the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System […]

NASA selected an IBM supercomputer called the IBM System p575+ supercomputer for evaluating next-generation technology to meet future NASA supercomputing requirements. The IBM system is being installed at the NASA […]

Eutelsat Communications has submitted an offer with two Mexican partners (Miguel Aleman Group and Clemente Serna Group) for 100 percent ownership of the Mexican satellite operator Satelites Mexicanos (SatMex), Eutelsat […]

France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications (FTMSC) has renamed itself Vizada as it aims for sharpened performance in the mobile satellite services market. Apax Partners acquired the erstwhile FTMSC in October […]

Sogecable’s direct-to-home (DTH) platform Digital+ is preparing to bring high-definition (HD) services to its 2 million customers in Spain. The operator said that beginning in August, its iPlus service will […]

Inmarsat and Axiom Telecom signed an exclusive agreement for Axiom to manage the global distribution of Inmarsat’s forthcoming mobile and fixed satellite phones, Inmarsat announced June 7. Axiom will support […]

Asian IP solutions provider BNS has unveiled its Nautilus Middleware platform designed to power IP-based video services such as IPTV, Internet TV and MDU IPTV, the company announced June 7. […]

Viaccess, a conditional access vendor and subsidiary of France Telecom, has appointed François Moreau de Saint Martin as its new CEO. Moreau de Saint Martin had been chief technology officer […]

Air Logistics, a U.S. helicopter fleet serving the offshore oil industry, is equipping 125 aircraft with Iridium-based satellite systems for voice communications and automatic flight following, Iridium Satellite announced June […]

Stephen Tapp, president and chief operating officer of XM Canada will leave the company effective June 15 to pursue other opportunities, Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. announced on June 7. […]

Atlanta-based Crawford Communications Inc. has acquired the assets of StarLink Inc., a satellite uplink truck company based near Chattanooga, Tenn. The acquisition adds a C-band, Ku-band and C/Ku-band hybrid to […]

Astrium has been contracted by Hispasat to design and build Amazonas-2, a powerful geostationary satellite to increase Hispasat’s offered capacity and meet demand on its American position, Astrium announced June […]

Sirius Satellite Radio has obtained a $250 million senior secured term loan commitment from Morgan Stanley Senior Funding Inc., Sirius announced June 5. The facility will mature in five and […]

Gateway Broadcast Services, a subsidiary of Gateway Telecommunications, has raised an additional $40 million as it looks to make GTV – its new pan-Africa, direct-to-home (DTH), pay-TV service – a […]