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DirecTV announced June 14 its national operations center would move to Denver in early 2007 to form the hub of all sales and service support for DirecTV. The facility will […]

Skyline Software Systems Inc. has created a Web-based mapping service that provides 3-D imagery of the Earth using a combination of high-resolution satellite imagery, aerial photography and map data, the […]

Google Earth has been updated and released in beta form, Google announced June 14. The Internet-based satellite mapping service has added an interface to allow users to better control the […]

Arabsat has renewed a key partnership with BBC World Service, which will enable audiences in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East to listen to BBC radio. Programming in Arabic […]

Microelectronics Technology Inc. will provide Ku-band satellite terminals to Shin Satellite Public Company Ltd., Microelectronics announced. The company will supply 100,000 Ku-band IPStar Outdoor Unit Systems that will be marketed […]

Sistemas Satelitales de México received a contract from Comsat México to provide Ku-band satellite capacity aboard the AMC-4 satellite, SES Americom announced June 12. The capacity will be used to […]

Panamsat extended the deadline on a previously announced offer to purchase any and all of its outstanding Senior Discount Notes due 2014 to the end of June, Intelsat announced June […]

Comtech PST Corp. received a $1.1 million order for high-power amplifiers from an unnamed maker of aviation electronics and communications systems for high power amplifiers, Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced June […]

IP.Access Ltd. announced June 12 its NanoGSM picocell offering completed testing for interoperability with Idirect‘s VSAT satellite equipment. The two companies formed a partnership to offer a solution for enhancing […]

GPSFlight will provide weather and atmospheric data for UP Aerospace Inc. for the inaugural launch of the Spaceloft XL rocket, scheduled to take place in New Mexico this summer, GPSFlight […]

Taide, a subsidiary of Telenor Satellite Services, has completed installation of an advanced communications network for Kuwait Airways in cooperation with Hasibat Information Technologies of Kuwait, Telenor announced. Taide has […]

Swales Aerospace has delivered the last of five microsatellite platforms and the dispenser probe carrier for NASA‘s Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substorms (Themis) mission, the company […]

U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Robert Murrett has been nominated for appointment to vice admiral and assignment as director of the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the U.S. Department of Defense announced […]

Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Co. signed a contract with Boeing Satellite Systems International for the launch of the Thuraya-3 satellite aboard a Zenit- 3SL rocket, Sea Launch announced June 12. Thuraya […]

Aeroflex Inc. announced June 9 its Motion Control Division would provide components for NASA‘s Mars Science Laboratory. Under a $10 million contract from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Aeroflex will provide […]

Sirius Canada and BMW Canada have partnered to install Sirius Satellite Radio receivers into BMW vehicles, Sirius Canada announced June 12. The agreement, with a factory and dealer option, will […]

Symmetricom Inc. will supply its master reference oscillator for the Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite program under a subcontract from prime contractor Lockheed Martin, Symmetricom announced June 12. Symmetricom […]

U.K. direct-to-home TV provider BSkyB has been linked in the U.K. press with a move for the British Internet access division of AOL, which may be up for sale. AOL […]

Michael Strianese has been named interim CEO of L-3 Communications following the death of Frank Lanza, L-3 announced June 9. Lanza, who co-founded the company, passed away June 6. Strianese […]

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.‘s Skyedge hub will be incorporated in Cisco‘s routers as part of an agreement between the two companies, Gilat announced June 12. The deal allows VSAT service […]

Echostar Communications Corp. and DirecTV Inc. will market satellite broadband Internet service offered by Wildblue Communications Inc., the companies announced June 9. As part of the agreements, Wildblue will be […]

China’s Beijing-1 imagery satellite, launched in October, has begun operations, Xinhua reported June 8. The microsatellite was built by England’s Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. for Beijing Landview Mapping Information Technology […]

Panamsat announced June 8 it would be providing every major Latin American broadcaster with the 2006 World Cup for their standard and HD channels across the continent. Panamsat will deliver […]

Galileo Industries and the European Space Agency (ESA) selected Saft to provide its lithium-ion battery modules for the four satellites involved in the Galileo in-orbit validation phase, Saft announced June […]

Brian Sullivan, director of new product development and sales for BSkyB, is confident the operator will soon get on track in terms of customer installations for its high-definition (HD) service. […]

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the German Aerospace Center linked a satellite and a ground station using optical links, JAXA announced June 9. The optical communications experiment, conducted […]

China Mobile Ltd. will acquire a 19.9 percent stake in Phoenix Satellite Television Holdings Ltd., News Corp. announced June 8. The deal will reduce News Corp.’s stake in Phoenix to […]

The multi-billion-dollar National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) was saved, at least for now, from potential cancellation when U.S. Department of Defense leaders restructured the troubled program by reducing […]

Russia’s satellite sector is promising, but not when it comes to manufacturing telecom satellites. Teal said in its recent report on the geostationary satellite market that as many as 176 […]

There is no guarantee of safety in space flight, because risks exist and will continue to confront travelers who venture beyond Earth, an astronaut said. But the benefits of penetrating, […]