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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 […]

By Owen D. Kurtin The announcement Dec. 14 that SES Global agreed to acquire New Skies Satellites for approximately $1.16 billion in cash and assumed debt capped a transformative year […]

Technology Blue Sky Network Unveils Cockpit Integrated Satellite Voice Capabilities Blue Sky Network announced a new satellite-based panel-mounted control head for aircraft. The ACH1000 offers cockpit integrated voice capabilities and […]

Seakey, a provider of in-boat safety, security and information services using the GPS satellite network and enhanced wireless technology, unveiled its next-generation satellite communications product with enhanced features aimed at […]

XM Satellite Radio will add nine U.S. metro markets to its Navtraffic satellite navigation feature in the first quarter of 2006, bringing the total number of cities covered by the […]

Lockheed Martin received a contract from the U.S. Air Force to build a third spacecraft for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) satellite constellation. Advanced EHF satellites, the successor to […]

BSkyB, the U.K. satellite pay-TV operator, will invest 1 million British pounds ($1.7 billion) in a partnership with conservation group the National Trust, including developing a series of high-definition (HD) […]

Sea Launch‘s Odyssey Launch Platform and Sea Launch Commander departed the company’s home port in Long Beach, Calif., for Sea Launch’s first mission of the year. Sea Launch is scheduled […]

IP VPN (Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network) via satellite is a distinct application targeted specifically at the large, small and medium enterprise (SME), and small office/home office (SoHo) sectors. A […]

When a corporation has production information that must be transmitted from remote sites in the field to its headquarters in an area lacking a traditional communications infrastructure, IT network managers […]

Satellite imagery, long the domain of governments and militaries around the globe, is finding its way into the commercial marketplace. Commercial satellite operators had hoped that the launch of several […]

In today’s highly competitive business arena, executive trainers not only are seeking technology that can streamline their training and corporate communications but also advanced network platforms that will enable them […]

Digitalglobe (www.digitalglobe.com) and Valtus Imagery Services (www.valtusimagery.com), a division of Northwest Geomatics Ltd., entered into a three-year data distribution partnership to offer Digitalglobe’s high-resolution commercial satellite imagery to Valtus customers. […]

Thrane & Thrane Inc. (www.tt.dk) unveiled its Sailor VMS Systems, which provides global connectivity for commercial fisherman on Inmarsat-C, a network for safety at sea and global maritime communications. Thrane […]

EMS Satcom (www.emssatcom.com), a division of EMS Technologies Inc., said that Venezuela’s Insituto National de Aviacion Civil awarded EMS Satcom a $2.9 million contract for the company’s search and rescue […]

Great Circle Shipping (www.preciousshipping.com), a Bangkok-based ship management company, is fitting 34 of its bulk cargo carriers with Thrane & Thrane’s maritime Iridium terminals under a service contract with Singapore […]

Iridium Satellite LLC (www.iridium.com) is providing satellite data links to enable e-mail, Internet and intraship communications for the passengers and crew of M/V Polar Star, an expedition cruise ship that […]