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[3/19/07] Loral Space & Communications Inc. cut its net loss to $23 million in 2006, as revenues improved 27 percent to $797 million, the company announced March 15. In 2005, […]

Premiere, the German pay-TV operator, has created a new subsidiary, Premiere Sky, which will launch an eponymous programming package via satellite. Premiere Sky will hit the German market in September […]

In a regular look at how satellite pay-TV operators are performing in Europe, Satellite News examines the most recent results of Europe’s leading DTH players, all of whom have announced […]

Flexibility is the key to remaining viable in a changing market for video technologies, agreed a panel of experts speaking at the March 13 meeting of the Society of Satellite […]

Bell ExpressVu, the Canadian DTH operator, is hoping it can maintain the pace in the Canadian digital TV market by bringing a number of potential new services to its customers. […]

Consolidation A Key Driver In Investor Interest The planned merger of satellite radio operators Sirius and XM is the kind of consolidation that private investors want to see more of, […]

Internet protocol television (IPTV) is a market beginning to take off. In the last two years, some of the biggest telcos around the globe have announced aggressive plans to capture […]

Österreichischer Lloyd Ship Management (ÖLSM) is fitting its fleet of ships with Iridium satellite terminals, Iridium announced March 15. One Net Ltd. is supplying and installing the Sailor SC 4000 […]

Österreichischer Lloyd Ship Management (ÖLSM) is fitting its fleet of ships with Iridium satellite terminals, Iridium announced March 15. One Net Ltd. is supplying and installing the Sailor SC 4000 […]

Hughes Network Systems LLC latest generation Hughes 9250 mobile satellite terminal has been approved to operate over Inmarsat’s Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN), Hughes announced March 15. The unit is […]

Imagery satellite operator GeoEye has acquired M.J. Harden Associates Inc., a Mission, Kansas-based provider of digital aerial imagery and geospatial information products, GeoEye announced March 15. M.J. Harden, acquired from […]

SES New Skies received a contract from the Office des Postes et Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT) to provide Internet trunking services to the 118 islands constituting French Polynesia, SES […]

Digital TV penetration in the United Kingdom has reached 77 percent, according to a report from communications regulator Ofcom. In the fourth quarter, another million households went digital, bringing the […]

Democratic and Republican members of both the House and Senate lavishly and repeatedly praised NASA Administrator Michael Griffin for his excellent leadership of the space agency, but the legislators were […]

NASA could accelerate its Constellation program to get Americans back on the moon sooner than now planned, so as to beat the Chinese in their drive toward a manned mission […]

The Airborne Laser (ABL) ballistic missile defense (BMD) system worked well in its first in-flight test of the laser targeting system, the Missile Defense Agency reported. In the test Thursday, […]

Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), the House Armed Services Committee chairman, proposed a bill to reform defense contracting. It would curb use of sole source contracts while encouraging use of fixed-price […]

Potential budget cuts for the next two years in the United States portion of funding for the U.S., German and Italian-funded Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) air defense missile […]

The Army Space and Missile Defense Command gave L-3 Communications [LLL] unit SYColeman an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to develop an advanced intelligent software technology. It would be used for […]

With the American space program facing tight budgetary times, a key senator called for a bipartisan summit meeting with the White House on the future of NASA. Sen. Barbara A. […]

SpacerX Sees DemoFligbht2 Launch Close At Hand SpaceX expects to launch DemoFligbht2 soon, with liftoff tentatively set for 4 p.m. PT today. Last week, “We had a very successful static […]

The Navy gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a $30 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract for Joint Standoff Weapons (JSOW). In the latest work, Raytheon will provide 118 JSOW […]

The Army also gave Raytheon a $38.6 million contract to upgrade Patriot Advanced Capability-2 (PAC-2) missiles to PAC-3s, the company announced. That contract is for test equipment upgrades and engineering […]

The Navy gave Lockheed Martin Corp. a $16 million firm-fixed-price contract modification to a previously awarded contract for Vertical Launching Systems (VLS). Lockheed will provide labor work on MK 41 […]

NASA exercised a five-year option with Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc. worth a maximum $568 million. Teledyne Brown, of Huntsville, Ala., will provide continued systems development and operations support for the […]

[3/15/07] Eutelsat Communications confirmed March 14 that its broadcast clients of the HotBird-2 satellite had been transferred to HotBird-8.   The precautionary switch, with no change in reception parameters for […]

Turner Broadcasting System Inc. (TBS) has selected Eutelsat Communications to supply capacity and services for delivering three entertainment channels to cable networks in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg, Eutelsat announced […]

MultiChoice, a South Africa-based, direct-to-home (DTH) television provider, has selected Intelsat to support its mobile broadcast TV trial in the metropolitan areas of Johannesburg, Soweto, Pretoria and Cape Town, Intelsat […]

Telesat has been signed by the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), Pakistan’s  national space agency, to assist in the procurement and 2010 launch of the Paksat-1R satellite […]