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Canadian Satellite Radio (CSR) has signed up more than 3,000 customers during pre-service registration efforts, the company announced Aug. 24. Street teams conducted the pre-registration during the Toronto Molson Indy […]

Samsung Electronics announced the launch of its fourth satellite DMB phone Aug. 25, Samsung’s smallest DMB handset. The SCH-B250 features a more compact design and improved features than previous DMB […]

Integral Systems Inc. won a research and development contract from the U.S. Air Force for the GPS Control Segment program, the company announced Aug. 25. Under the six-month, $1.2 million […]

Roaming Messenger, a maker of mobile messaging technology, plans to begin offering solutions for the location-based services market, the company announced Aug. 25. Roaming Messenger, based in Santa Barbara, Calif., […]

Asiasat sales and profits dropped in the first half of 2005, the company reported Aug. 24. Sales dropped 19 percent to HK $445 million ($57.2 million) during the first six […]

Radyne Corp. announced Aug. 24 the James Spilker had been elected to the company’s board of directors. Spilker’s addition expands Radyne’s board to six members. Spilker was the co-founder and […]

ISC Kosmotras launched Japan’s Optical Inter-orbit Communication Engineering Test Satellite (OICETS) Aug. 24. The satellite, which will test inter-orbit communications between satellites, was placed into low earth orbit via a […]

World Communications Center (WCC) announced Aug. 24 a channel partnership with Strix Systems to provide wireless local area networks and Internet access via satellite in remote environments in the continental […]

Weida Communications Inc. said Aug. 24 it received three new contracts to provide satellite communications systems for electric power utilities in China. The deals are expected to bring the company […]

Construction of the 18 mirror segments that will make up the optical system for NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope has completed the initial phase. In the first step, molten beryllium […]

In its first financial report since going public in June, Inmarsat reported increases in both earnings and profits for the first six months of 2005, compared to the same period […]

Wildblue Communications Inc. said Aug. 23 David Leonard will take over as the company’s CEO effective Sept. 1. Co-founder and current CEO Tom Moore is stepping down because he has […]

XM Satellite Radio said Aug. 23 its satellite radio receivers will make their debut in Suzuki automobiles in a pair of 2006 models. The Grand Vitara and the XL-7 sport […]

iDirect Technologies said Aug. 23 it sold its 200th IP-based hub router solution to Telefonica CTC in Chile. Telefonica CTC will install the hub in Santiago, Chile, in order to […]

The latest part of Echostar Communications Corp.‘s new “Better TV for all” marketing campaign has the direct-to-home television service provider seeking a town to legally and permanently change its name […]

The president of Pakistan has given preliminary approval to a program to develop the nation’s first imagery satellite, according to press reports. The Remote Sensing Satellite System (RSSS) would be […]

The countdown for the launch of Japan’s Optical Inter-orbit Communication Engineering Test Satellite (OICETS) and a piggyback spacecraft is underway for an Aug. 24 launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in […]

BT Media And Broadcast said Aug. 22 it expanded its deal with Filipino broadcaster ABS-CBN to encompass the management of ABS-CBN’s entire European network, including service support, operations and satellite […]

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) introduced its new MSAT-G2 mobile satellite radio Aug. 22. The MSAT-G2 supports continent-wide, satellite dispatch radio and circuit-switched voice communications. The unit includes full suite of […]

New Zealand pay-TV service provider Sky TV posted total revenues of NZ $489.4 million ($341 million) for the year ended June 30 up from NZ $440.6 million ($306.7 million) in […]

Beginning Aug. 23 and running through Sept. 29, Sirius Satellite Radio will turn its Channel 99 into an all Rolling Stones channel. The channel will broadcast music from the band’s […]

Space Imaging announced Aug. 22 that Jim Youker has returned to the company as executive director of U.S. government and North American sales. Most recently, Youker, who has more than […]

Shin Satellite CEO Dumrong Kasemset believes satellite broadband finally is poised to make a strong impact in Asia. Shin Satellite hopes to become a major player on the landscape with […]

Orbimage Inc. created two new organizational entities to better align its businesses with customers in the domestic and international marketplace, the company announced. The International Strategic Business Unit will be […]

Intelsat Ltd. announced late last week it completed laboratory testing and analysis of Hughes Network Systems‘ DW7000 satellite broadband platform, clearing the way for the system and the Internet protocol […]

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. said its Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp. subsidiary received a $4.7 million order under its Movement Tracking System (MTS) contract with the U.S. Army. The order is for […]

The Allied Defense Group Inc. said Aug. 19 MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) awarded Allied’s Seaspace subsidiary an antenna order valued at $800,000 with $200,000 in options. The Ka-band […]

MDU Communications International Inc., a provider of DirecTV satellite television programming, high-speed Internet and other communications services to residential multi-dwelling units, installed its first “single wire” installation in a luxury […]

The launch of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-N (GOES-N) has been delayed until at least early October after the most recent attempt was scrubbed due to technical issues, Boeing Co. […]

Stratos Global Corp. stands to become the world’s largest reseller of Inmarsat services with its planned acquisition of Xantic B.V., a move that also could trigger further consolidation in the […]