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China Plans To Launch 18 Earth Observation Satellites
China will launch 18 observation satellites throughout the next ten years, made up of land resource, environmental, marine and meteorological spacecraft, the People’s Daily Online reported. The Sino-Brazil Earth resource […]
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BT Unveils Name For IPTV Service
BT, which is launching IPTV services later this year, has announced it will call its service BT Vision. The service will combine Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) with on- demand film, […]
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Jim Maser To Join SpaceX as President and COO
Space Explorations Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) announced March 17 that Jim Maser will join the company as president and COO. Maser spent most of his career with Boeing, most recently serving […]
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Worldspace Cuts Net Loss In 2005
Worldspace Inc. cuts its net loss from $577.4 million in 2004 to $79.7 million in 2005, as total revenues jumped 36 percent to $11.7 million in 2005, the company reported. […]
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Geoeye Receives $13 Million In Orders From NGA
Geoeye received an additional $13 million in orders from the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) under the Clearview contract, the company announced. The latest orders are in addition to the […]
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Orbital Set To Launch NASA’s Space Technology 5 Spacecraft
Orbital Sciences Corp. will make its second attempt to launch the Space Technology 5 (ST5) satellites for NASA March 22 after the first attempt was halted due to technical problems […]
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Worldspace Launches Arabic-Language Channels
Worldspace Satellite Radio, one of the global providers in satellite-based radio services, announced March 20 that it has launched Ranin and Min Zaman, two new commercial-free Arabic music channels that […]
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Sirius Satellite Radio Passes 4 Million Subscribers
Sirius Satellite Radio announced that March 20 it recently surpassed 4 million subscribers nationwide. Sirius delivers more than 125 channels of commercial-free music in satellite radio, with 67 music channels […]
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NDS Wins SES Americom Contract
NDS won an Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) security solutions contract from SES Americom, as the operator takes the next step with its IP-Prime service, a new IPTV distribution solution in […]
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Loral Skynet Re-enters North American FSS Market
Loral Skynet, a subsidiary of Loral Space and Communications announced March 20 that it has resumed offering Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) to customers in North America. Pursuant to the terms […]
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Globecast Delivers ESPN Classic To The United Kingdom Via Satellite
Multinational, multimedia sports entertainment company ESPN Inc, and global content management and delivery company Globecast have signed a deal for the delivery ESPN Classic, the ESPN’s first U.K.-dedicated sports channel, […]
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Intelsat Appoints Jeffrey Freimark As EVP and CFO
Intelsat Ltd. announced March 17 that Jeffrey Freimark has been appointed as executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective on the resignation of Robert Medlin. Medlin has been serving […]
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Audi Signs Exclusive Agreement With Sirius Satellite Radio
Sirius Satellite Radio and Audi of America Inc. announced March 17 that Audi will offer Sirius as its exclusive satellite radio provider for Audi vehicles sold in the United States, […]
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NGA Awards $12 Million Clearview Contract to Digitalglobe
Digitalglobe won a $12 million satellite imagery capacity contract modification by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) the company announced March 16. This Clearview contract enables the NGA to acquire additional […]
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Ciel Satellite Teams Up with Alcatel Alenia Space
Alcatel Alenia Space has won a satellite contract from Ciel Satellite, a Canadian satellite services operator, the company announced March 16. Ciel Satellite has chosen Alcatel to build a new […]
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Providers Seek Early Buy-in For Emergency Communications
When it comes to buying emergency satellite communications before disaster hits, governments have yet to fully embrace purchasing complete systems. "They don’t want to pay for it if they’re not […]
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Rich Media Market Poised For Growth
Thanks to more efficient encoding and compression, look to an ever expanding flow of rich media. The sheer amount of content in this category that is available is only going […]
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ESA’s Envisat Satellite Monitors Developing La Nina
Satellite measurements of a steep difference in sea surface height between the western and eastern Pacific Ocean support predictions that a La Nina event that would impact global weather could […]
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Major League Baseball Back In Full Swing On XM Satellite Radio
Baseball fans across the country can listen to their favorite teams all season long on XM Satellite Radio, which will air live play-by-play coverage of games for every MLB team […]
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Allan Cameron Appointed Chairman And CEO Of Thales In The United States
Thales, an international electronics company serving aerospace, security and defense markets, announced March 16 the appointment of Allan Cameron to the position of chairman and CEO of Thales in the […]
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Eutelsat Signs Swiss Deal
Eutelsat has signed a new capacity deal with one of Switzerland’s largest public broadcasters. SRG SSR has signed a deal concerning a 33MHz transponder on the Hot Bird 7A satellite, […]
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Alcatel Alenia Space To Provide Radar System For Kompsat-5
Alcatel Alenia Space signed a contract with the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), the Republic of South Korea Space Agency, to provide a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) payload system for […]
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ICO North America To Launch Its GEO Satellite Using International Launch Services’ Atlas 5
ICO North America (ICO) announced March 16 that the company signed an agreement to launch its geostationary payload on an Atlas V rocket provided by International Launch Services (ILS). ICO’s […]
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SES Astra Signs Capacity Agreement With Arena
SES Astra, an SES Global company and Arena, owner of live-TV rights for the German first soccer league (Bundesliga) announced March 16 that they have signed a satellite capacity agreement. […]
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Newsat and Go2Call Sign Agreement for VoIP services
Australia-based Multiemedia‘s satellite communication division Newsat Networks announced March 15 that it signed a strategic partnership with Go2Call, an international Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) solutions provider, to deliver leading-edge VoIP solutions […]
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Satellite Security Systems Announces Exclusive OEM Partnership With Blue Bird
Celtron International Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Satellite Security Systems Inc. (S3), announced March 15 an exclusive partnership with the nation’s second largest manufacturer of school buses, Blue Bird […]
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German Air Rescues To Implement Iridium Technology On Helicopter Fleet
Skytrac Systems Ltd., an Iridium value-added reseller, won a contract to supply Iridium satcom systems for one of Europe’s largest medical evacuation helicopter fleets, the company announced March 15. Under […]
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Echostar Reports Fourth Quarter 2005 Financial Results
Echostar Communications Corp. reported total revenue of $2.18 billion for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2005, a 12.8 percent increase from the $1.93 billion for the corresponding period in 2004. […]
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OpenTV Sees Profits and Revenues Boost
OpenTV, which supplies middleware and other interactive solutions to satellite pay-TV operators worldwide, has seen some strong growth in overall revenues. This was one of the highlights as the company […]
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ViaSat Finalizes Subcontract With Boeing
ViaSat Inc. finalized March 14 a $13.8 million subcontract modification with The Boeing Company for the Family of Advanced Beyond-line-of-sight Terminals (FAB-T) program. As part of the Boeing team, ViaSat […]