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DataPath, Inc., which provides products for mission-critical communications, has deployed battlefield communications equipment for the marines‚ three SWANs (Support Wide Area Networks. SWAN is a satellite and Internet protocol (IP) […]

JSAT Corporation will be launching its JCSAT-11 satellite on an ILS Proton Breeze M vehicle in 2007; making it the first Japanese company to use a Russian launch vehicle. The […]

The U.S. Department of Justice has completed its review of SES Global’s acquisition of New Skies Satellites, effectively giving permission for the deal to go through. The acquisition was announced […]

Harris Corp. purchased non-exclusive rights to Earthstar Geographics LLC‘s Terracolor satellite imagery product, Earthstar announced. The products simulates true color satellite imagery at 15-meter resolution. Applications include location-based mapping, land […]

Spacedev completed its acquisition of Starsys Research Corp. after shareholders of both companies approved the deal, Spacedev announced Feb. 2. Spacedev agreed in October to pay $9 million in cash […]

Boeing completed initial electromagnetic compatibility and interference testing of the first GPS 2F satellite, the company announced Feb. 2. The test, conducted at the company’s Satellite Development Center in El […]

Xtar LLC signed master service agreements with two companies that provide service to U.S. government customers, Xtar announced Feb. 3. Under the agreements, General Dynamics Satellite Communications Services Inc. and […]

Ex-Aramiska CEO Philippe Bodart believes the future for satellite broadband in the United Kingdom is limited, if any future exists at all. Aramiska, a pan-European satellite broadband operator, abruptly shut […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. won the rights to build the ground-based network architecture for the U.S. Air Force‘s next-generation Transformational Satellite communications (TSAT) system, the Air Force announced Jan. 27. Separately, […]

Part of Frascati’s Controlled Origin Denomination — "Denominazione d’Origine Controllata" or DOC in Italian, a wine’s legally demarcated home region — was surveyed before and after the October harvest using […]

The four largest U.S.-based space companies, Boeing Co., Lockheed Martin Corp., Northrop Grumman Corp. and Raytheon Co., generally posted strong performances in 2005 thanks to continued strong government work and […]

Virginia Not Alone in Eyeing DBS Tax DBS operators, beware: The state of Virginia wants to nail your customers with a 5 percent sales tax. "We understand that state legislators […]

Stronger, more reliable, and loaded with commercial possibilities: That’s what’s the next generation of GPS – dubbed L2C – is all about. That was the news delivered by Deputy Director […]

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has begun construction of Telstar 11N, a new multi-region Ku-band communications satellite, for Loral Skynet. Both companies are subsidiaries of Loral Space & Communications. Scheduled to begin […]

Intelsat received a pair of multiyear contracts from Connexion by Boeing to support the launch of a new high-speed Internet maritime service, Intelsat announced Feb. 2. Connexion by Boeing will […]

Gilat Satellite Networks announced four new deals with telecommunications companies in Kazakhstan for high-speed satellite communications networks. These four contracts with Jarykh, JSC Astel, JSC Kazakhtelecom and Technoservice Lyuks cover […]

Employees represented by three locals of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers at Boeing facilities in California, Alabama and Florida, voted Feb. 1 to accept the company’s offer […]

Michael Targoff has been elected CEO of Loral Space & Communications, replacing the retiring Bernard Schwartz, the company announced Feb. 2. Targoff has served as vice chairman of Loral’s board […]

Intersat, the Brazil-based partner of Digitalglobe, has provided satellite imagery to South America’s largest telecommunications operator, Digitalglobe announced Feb. 1. Telemar will use the high-resolution imagery from Digitalglobe’s Quickbird satellite […]

Echostar Communications Corp. and Lifetime Entertainment Services announced Feb. 1 that they have reached a multi-year agreement that will return Lifetime Television and Lifetime Movie Network to the Dish Network. […]

U.K. satellite pay-TV operator, BSkyB ended 2006 with slightly less than 8.1 million subscribers, with net subscriber growth of 215,000 in the fourth quarter, the company announced. BSkyB has also […]

Eutelsat Communications awarded a contract to build the W2M communication satellite to a partnership of EADS Astrium and the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Eutelsat announced Feb. 1. W2M will […]

Bernard Schwartz, chairman and CEO of Loral Space & Communications Inc., will retire effective March 1, the company announced. Loral spokeswoman Jeanette Clonan said a replacement would be announced Feb. […]

ViaSat (www.viasat.com) said it is supplying its Surfbeam broadband satellite network to Telesat (www.telesat.ca), enabling Telesat customers in Colombia to provide Internet access to schools and other projects. Telesat customers […]

Facing mounting competition from cable and telecom companies, it is no surprise that industry rumors resurfaced that AT&T may buy Echostar outright rather than merely reselling the satellite television company’s […]

By Gerry Oberst In the last days of December, the European Union was poised to adopt rules on data traffic retention that telecommunications providers must save for law enforcement purposes […]

by Nick Mitsis As the CEO of Arianespace, Jean-Yves Le Gall shepherded the European launch services company in 2005 through one of the most challenging periods it has faced since […]

By Jason Bates The first deregulation efforts in Africa helped establish VSAT networks as one of the leading communications solutions across the continent. Companies such as Gilat and Hughes Network […]

By Peter J. Brown Consumers want more control over their time and their content. Broadcasters are responding by making their content available on demand using a variety of distribution channels […]

By Nick Mitsis and Mark Holmes The year 2005 certainly was a busy year for investors with five satellite operators – Panamsat, New Skies, Inmarsat, Worldspace and Eutelsat – launching […]