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Boeing Co. will restructure operations in its Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) into three business profit and loss centers organized around capabilities, the company announced Jan. 27. Roger Krone has been […]

Dacom Corp., an independent gateway operator for Globalstar LLC, plans to offer simplex, or one-way, data services to Globalstar customers in parts of Asia, Globalstar announced Jan. 26. New hardware […]

Pan-European satellite broadband provider Aramiska has turned off its service, allegedly giving customers barely seven hours notice that their Internet access was ending. In a Jan. 27 announcement on its […]

If you hear rumors that Echostar Communications Corp. is unhappy about offering a package of channels that are considered family friendly, ignore them. In truth, making Congress happy by providing […]

Globalstar LLC will use its planned system of terrestrial repeaters to boost the availability of its Mobile Satellite Service (MSS) in urban areas and within buildings, but the company also […]

Iridium Satellite is supplying mobile satellite phone systems for a group of amateur ham radio operators preparing for an Antarctic expedition in February. The two-week DXpedition is intended to establish […]

Eutelsat ended 2005 in hectic fashion, closing the saga of its efforts to go public with a successful initial public offering (IPO) Dec. 2 after an earlier false start. With […]

Analyst Bullish On Satellite Radio Stocks Wall Street analyst Bear Stearns & Co. placed an "outperform" rating on both Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio. Looking back at Howard […]

The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) named Joslyn Read the organization chairwoman for 2006, SIA announced. Read, assistant vice president for regulatory affairs at Hughes Network Systems, replaces Tony Trujillo, senior […]

MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) received a contract from Defence Research and Development Canada-Ottawa to develop technology that extracts information about moving objects from satellite radar imagery, MDA announced […]

Intelsat announced Jan. 26 that Globecast WorldTV renewed its contract for the use of multiple transponders aboard the Intelsat-Americas 5 (IA-5) satellite. The contract will support growth of Globecast’s international […]

NDS won a contract with Tata Sky, which is planning to launch direct-to-home services in India in June, NDS announced. Under the deal, Tata Sky will deploy the NDS Videoguard […]

Worldspace Satellite Radio added 40,000 subscribers during the fourth quarter 2005 to bring its total to 115,000 at the end of the year, Worldspace announced Jan. 25. “The growth rate […]

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) appointed Scott Macleod, a 20-year telecom and strategic finance veteran, to the position CFO, the company announced Jan. 24. Macleod will be responsible for finance and […]

Globecast announced Jan. 25 that it was chosen by France Telecom‘s IPTV arm Maligne TV to manage the French operator’s newest IPTV bouquet, Le Bouquet TV, Beginning with the Feb. […]

Serbia Broadband is set to launch a new direct-to-home platform using Eutelsat‘s W2 satellite. The 25-channel DTH platform will be called TotalTV and will offer Serbian national and regional channels […]

Qinetiq Group plc hopes to raise gross proceeds of about 582 million British pounds ($1 billion) through its initial public offering, the company announced Jan. 25. Qinetiq set a price […]

Panamsat Corp. removed the Galaxy 3R satellite from service after the spacecraft’s secondary spacecraft control processor failed, the company announced Jan. 24. The Boeing 601 spacecraft, which was launched in […]

David Hershberg, chairman and CEO of Globecomm Systems Inc., has been named the Herman Fialkov Business Person of the Year by The Long Island Capital Alliance, Globecomm announced Jan. 24. […]

Antoine de Chassy has been named the new president of Spot Image Corp., the U.S. marketing arm of France’s imagery satellite operator, the company announced Jan. 24. De Chassy served […]

Temasek Holdings (Pte) Ltd, Siam Commercial Bank Pcl (SCB) and a group of Thai investors, through Kularb Kaew Pcl, have reached an agreement to acquire a 49.6 percent stake in […]

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) placed the Advanced Land Observing satellite into orbit Jan. 24, JAXA announced. The satellite, dubbed Daichi, is designed to gather detailed topographical data that […]

Datapath Inc. announced Jan. 24 that it has acquired the assets of Third Rail Americas Inc., a wireless broadband network provider. The acquisition provides Datapath with new capabilities that extend […]

MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. announced Jan. 24 that Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS) of Toulouse, France, signed a contract for imagery provided by the Radarsat-2 satellite. The data will be […]

Globalstar LLC received the authority by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to offer ancillary terrestrial component services (ATC) in the United States to boost its mobile satellite services, Globalstar […]

Ofcom has extended David Currie’s term as chairman for another two years beginning at the end of his current term. Currie’s term as head of the U.K. telecommunications regulator now […]

Globecomm Systems Inc., announced Jan. 23 that the company has been awarded multiple satellite infrastructure contracts from an unnamed U.S. government customer valued at about $1.4 million. “The U.S. government […]

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) postponed the launch of the Advanced Land Observing satellite until Jan. 24 due to problems with ground facilities used for launch, JAXA announced. The […]

Echostar Communications Corp. and Lifetime Television severed talks to restore two channels to Echostar’s Dish Network satellite service, which the satellite TV provider dropped over a contract dispute, the companies […]

Eutelsat‘s Hot Bird 7A satellite arrived in Kourou, French Guiana, in preparation for its scheduled Feb. 21 launch aboard an Ariane 5 ECA rocket, Arianespace announced Jan. 20. Hot Bird […]