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Eutelsat Communications announced May 15 that its HotBird-2 satellite has been rebranded as Eurobird-9 and redeployed to 9° East, marking the opening of a video neighborhood adjacent to Eutelsat’s premium […]

Thales reported a revenue increase of nearly 7 percent in the 2007 first quarter to 2.2 billion euros ($3 billion), the company announced May 15. The majority of revenues were […]

Norsat International Inc. reported first quarter earnings of $540,000 on revenues of $4.4 million, posting a profit for the second consecutive quarter, the company announced May 15. In the 2006 […]

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted TerreStar Networks Inc. a reservation for 20 megahertz of spectrum in the 2GHz frequency band. TerreStar, a majority owned subsidiary of Motient Corp., […]

The Sri Lanka Ministry of Defense reported that its embassy in Washington, D.C., has logged complains with the U.S. Departments of Justice and State as well as the Federal Bureau […]

Globalstar Inc. reported revenues of $23.2 million in the 2007 first quarter, down from $30.3 million in the same period a year ago, the company announced May 14. Service revenue […]

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) awarded contracts to International Launch Services Inc. (ILS) and Sea Launch Co. to launch next-generation satellites, ILS and Sea Launch announced May 15.   The ILS […]

Intelsat Ltd. reported revenue growth of 85 percent in the first quarter of 2007 but posted a loss of $115.1 million due to the acquisition of PanAmSat, Intelsat announced May […]

Access Intelligence has named Scott Chase as chairman for the SATELLITE 2008 Conference and Exhibition. Active in the satellite industry since 1981, for the past four years Chase has been […]

The U.S. Department of the Interior is seeking nominations for membership on the new National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC), Interior Deputy Secretary P. Lynn Scarlett announced on May 14. The […]

GeoEye has appointed Uyen Dinh as its senior director for government affairs, the satellite imaging company announced May 11. Dinh becomes responsible for the overall development and execution of the […]

Modern Times Group (MTG), owner of the Viasat DTH platforms in the Nordic and Baltic regions, has sold one of its direct-shopping channels to a German company, MTG announced. MTG […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) has furnished Novatel Inc. with a 10-year license for the company to sell precise-positioning receivers for tracking Galileo signals, Novatel announced May 14. Galileo is […]

Shin Satellite issued its results May 14, showing that by first quarter 2007’s end the satellite operator had approximately 75,000 IPStar customers after adding just over 9,000 customers for the […]

Orbcomm and its subsidiaries have signed a settlement with Quake Global Inc. dismissing all legal proceedings between the companies, Orbcomm announced May 14. Furthermore, they inked a 10-year manufacturing agreement […]

Citing profits from its latest mobile satellite services products, Inmarsat Holdings Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Inmarsat, reported a 16 percent increase in first-quarter revenues for the period ending […]

[5/15/07] China launched a communications satellite for Nigeria, reportedly marking the first time a foreign buyer has purchased a Chinese satellite and its launching service. According to a May 14 […]

Contact:  Jenn Heinold Senior Tradeshow Marketing Manager 301-354-1813 jheinold@accessintel.com Photos available upon request. For Immediate Release Access Intelligence, LLC Names Scott Chase as SATELLITE 2008-2009 Conference Chairman The annual conference […]

Romain Bausch, CEO of SES Global, expressed optimism that the company will find a strong market for its Astra2Connect wholesale broadband service, and revealed being in discussions with telcos in […]

Thrane & Thrane has appointed NSSL as a key distributor for its satellite radio and communication equipment. NSSL will have a special focus on the European market as part of […]

WorldSpace Satellite Radio lost nearly 7,500 subscribers in the 2007 first quarter, bringing its total subscriber base to 191,600, the company announced May 9. The decline reflected low net additions […]

[5/14/07] Hughes Network Systems LLC (HNS) reported a profit of $4 million on revenues of $222.7 million in the first three months of 2007, the company announced May 10. A […]

Zoombak is the new name for the former Connectid, a mobile location-based services company and subsidiary of Liberty Media Corp. The change is part a wider rebranding initiative by the […]

Yousuf Al Sayed, CEO of Thuraya, confirmed that his company will launch its Thuraya-3 satellite with Sea Launch despite delays stemming from a January failure. Thuraya-3 is intended to expand […]

The Galileo satellite navigation project, which is supposed to be built though a combination of public and private funding, is teetering on the abyss after industry players failed to satisfy […]

Assertions made last week by the director of the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) that some censorship of satellite imagery might be necessary for national or military defense stirred questions […]

SES Global excited analysts in early May when the company revealed that it expected to realize cost savings on future satellites by focusing on its procurement process. "It is obviously […]

Eutelsat Video applications drove a 10 percent increase in Eutelsat’s 2007 third quarter revenues, the company announced May 10. Eutelsat posted revenues of 205.7 million euros ($278.6 million) in the […]

The announcement that Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) will manufacture the NSS-12 spacecraft for SES New Skies came as small but further indication of the overall health of SS/L’s parent company just […]

ABL Passes Another Test; Further Funds Restoration Sought House lawmakers provided a reprieve that averted death for the Airborne Laser (ABL) ballistic missile defense (BMD) program, while also lifting the […]