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The DirecTV Group Inc. said that effective March 7, Mitch Stern will no longer be the president and CEO of DirecTV Inc. Chase Carey, president and CEO of the DirecTV […]

GoIP Global Inc. said it signed a contract to distribute and service Hughes Network Systems‘ Direcway satellite terminals in Central Asia, countries of the former Soviet Union, the Middle East […]

Mitsubishi Motors North America said it inked an exclusive agreement with Sirius Satellite Radio to offer its satellite radio receivers as a factory installed option on various Mitsubishi automobiles. The […]

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. said its Spacenet Inc. subsidiary acquired all remaining shares of StarBand not already owned by Gilat and plans to merge the operations of StarBand into Spacenet. […]

Intelsat General Corp. (IGC) said it would launch its new GlobalConnex Network Broadband service today (March 8) at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association‘s TechNet Tampa trade show. The […]

Satlynx acquired a significant volume of Xantic‘s VSAT business in a key deal announced today. Xantic, a Dutch company majority-owned by KPN, is focusing more on its mobile satellite communications […]

Asia Pulse reported March 4 that South Korea’s Office of Science and Technology confirmed the country would put into orbit a multi-purpose, high-resolution remote sensing satellite in November. The cost […]

Reuters reported late last week the U.S. Air Force may lift a near two-year ban that kept Boeing from obtaining launch contracts, according comments from an Air Force official. The […]

CloudSat, part of a multi-satellite, multi-sensor National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) experiment designed to measure the properties of clouds, successfully concluded its final environmental test and was mated to […]

Radyne Comstream Inc. said it signed a definitive merger agreement to acquire Xicom Technology, a provider of satellite and microwave power amplifiers and other RF products, for about $41 million […]

Nera is planning to launch a communications system targeting the maritime market. The new system, named Nera SatLink Marine, combines the DVB-RCS (Digital Video Broadcast-Return Channel via Satellite) standard with […]

International Launch Services (ILS) revealed the details of its scheduled March 10 launch of the Inmarsat 4-F1 satellite. The spacecraft will be sent into orbit onboard an Atlas 5 rocket. […]

International Launch Services (ILS) revealed the details of its scheduled March 10 launch of the Inmarsat 4-F1 satellite. The spacecraft will be sent into orbit onboard an Atlas 5 rocket. […]

Watching the events unfold as the fate of Cablevision‘s Rainbow DBS direct-to-home satellite television business is being determined is in some ways as entertaining as the programs that are transmitted […]

A winner between the two consortia in competition for the concession contract to operate the European Union’s (EU) Galileo satellite-based navigation system was supposed to be announced on March 1. […]

DigitalGlobe recently announced that Apache Corp. has joined the company’s enterprise partner program, a mechanism that streamlines access to geospatial products and provides quick and easy data viewing and ordering […]

The B-2 Spirit bomber, which is undergoing a series of upgrades as part of its overall modernization program, will need an interim solution to accommodate a delay in its EHF […]

ORLANDO, FL.-As part of the Pentagon’s continuing plans to shore up a coherent development strategy for a new space surveillance system and launch a demonstration satellite by 2008, the Air […]

European direct-to-home (DTH)satellite television operators have seen some encouraging numbers in the final quarter of 2004. With all the results now in, Satellite News assesses the performances of the main […]

Sanborn, a geographic information system and photogrammetry company, said it acquired Space Imaging‘s Federal Civil and Commercial Solutions value-added solutions business unit. The unit’s capabilities span a full range of […]

Lockheed Martin said it achieved a milestone with the completion and delivery of a sophisticated, high-performance communications subsystem integral to the infrared payload of the first Space-based Infrared System High […]

Eumetsat, the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, moved fast to support a new Tsunami warning system in the Indian Ocean. It announced that it has made its […]

Globalstar LLC said it filed March 2 an application with the Federal Communications Commission for authority to offer ancillary terrestrial service (ATC) in the United States in conjunction with its […]

Sea Launch Co. LLC said it successfully delivered the XM-3 satellite into orbit for XM Satellite Radio. The launch occurred Feb. 28 at 7:51 p.m. PST. It was the first […]

Modulus Video introduced its new ME6000 real-time, full-resolution high-definition (HD) MPEG-4 AVC encoder for broadcast and other quality driven video applications. According to Modulus, the new system will enable satellite, […]

NDS Group won a key contract renewal in Asia with leading Korean pay-TV operator SkyLife. The two parties signed a new five-year contract, which sees the operator use NDS’ VideoGuard […]

BSkyB has taken another significant step toward its launch of High-Definition TV (HDTV) services in the United Kingdom. It announced that it is working with Thomson as the initial Set-Top […]

In testimony be the U.S. House Committee on Government Reform, Hughes Network Systems (HNS) Senior Vice President Michael Cook urged the committed to include satellite broadband technologies in the federal […]

Globalstar LLC said it filed March 2 an application with the Federal Communications Commission for authority to offer ancillary terrestrial service (ATC) in the United States in conjunction with its […]

DirecTV Inc. said it filed a lawsuit in Ontario, Canada, against 19 citizens and five of their businesses that it alleges were participating in a scheme to activate fraudulent DirecTV […]