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Row 44 said it signed an exclusive agreement with Hughes Network Systems to bring satellite broadband connectivity to North American commercial and business aircraft. Row 44 will use HNS’ Direcway […]

Sirius Satellite Radio said that beginning with 2007 racing season, it would start broadcasting Nascar races live, including all races from the Nextel Cup, Busch Series and Craftsman Truck series, […]

Globecomm Systems Inc. said the National Air Navigation Services Co. (NANSC) in Egypt awarded it an $8.1 million contract to install a next generation satellite-based network connecting 19 remote NANSC […]

iDirect Technologies introduced the latest addition to its product platform: the iDirect Compression and Acceleration Server (CAS) technology. The CAS solution compresses and accelerates static and dynamic data and content, […]

The Boeing Co. said it reached an agreement to sell its Rocketdyne Propulsion & Power business unit to Pratt & Whitney for about $700 million in cash. Rocketdyne is primarily […]

After two delays last week, Sea Launch once again halted the launch of the XM-3 satellite for XM Satellite Radio. According to a post on the Sea Launch Web site, […]

Space Systems/Loral announced it completed all assembly, integration and tests of the DirecTV 8 satellite more than two months ahead of the contracted schedule. The DirecTV 8 satellite, built for […]

Iridium Satellite LLC said its subscriber number grew to more than 114,000 in 2004, a 22.5 percent increase above its total number of subscribers at the end of 2003. Company […]

According to a Feb. 22 report by Asia Pulse, the launch of the Telkom-2 satellite for PT Telkom Indonesia Tbk has been delayed until April 15. The satellite was initially […]

The Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) announced the five people that will be inducted into the Satellite Hall Of Fame at an invitational ceremony on March 23: Steven Dorfman, […]

Washington, D.C.-based industry association Women in Aerospace (WIA) will be hosting a panel discussion examining what steps have been taken in the last year to bring the Vision for Space […]

DigitalGlobe said Apache Corp. joined its Enterprise Partners Program, a mechanism that streamlines access to geospatial products and provides data viewing and ordering capabilities at the desktop. Apache will use […]

Multichoice, a pay-TV provider announced that MTV Base, the first pan-African music channel, was launched on its DStv platform. The channel will be broadcast via satellite to 48 countries in […]

Wegener Corp. said it recently received a $700,000 order from Roberts Communications Network for equipment to expand its direct-to-home (DTH) small dish satellite delivery platform. The equipment is being used […]

CapRock Communications said it completed the expansion of its IPxpress core network to its Macae, Brazil teleport. IPxpress is CapRock’s Internet Protocol (IP)-based core network architecture that employs multi-protocol label […]

ViaSat said it finalized a contract to supply its SurfBeam broadband satellite networking system to Mexico-based content and Internet applications provider Pegaso Banda Ancha for consumer Internet access services in […]

WCBS TV New York reported on its Web site Feb. 20 that a celebrity and gossip columnist for Steppin’ Out magazine has received a subpoena to discuss his knowledge of […]

According to a Feb. 21 Dow Jones wire report. Thailand is looking to spend between $90 million and $100 million on two satellites that will replace Thaicom 1 and 2, […]

SkyWave Mobile Communications, a provider of Inmarsat D+ terminals, satellite airtime and services, announced that its DMR200L D+ satellite terminal has passed the applicable sections of the International Electrotechnical Commission […]

Stratos Global Corp. said that based on the initial response to its issuer bid dated Jan. 13, it will purchase for cancellation a total of 7.4 million common shares at […]

SES Global reported a slight decline in the company’s revenue for 2004 to 1.1 billion euros ($1.4 billion) from 1.2 billion euros ($1.6 billion) in 2003. The one percent drop […]

The launch of the XM-3 satellite for XM Satellite Radio by Sea Launch was postponed indefinitely “due to continuing sea conditions at the launch site” at the company’s equatorial launch […]

While nothing has been officially confirmed, industry observers are expecting Lockheed Marin and Raytheon Co. to sell off their Space Imaging remote sensing joint venture. The question that is still […]

NDS Group, one of the leading suppliers of Conditional Access (CA) and middleware solutions to pay-TV operators, will see most of its revenue growth come from satellite operators throughout the […]

For EagleMed, a privately-owned and operated critical care transport service, the adoption last year of an Iridium-based aircraft tracking and communications systems has paid dividends in terms of providing urgent […]

Tandberg Television secured a key deal with DirecTV, which will see the company play a key role in DirecTV’s High-Definition (HD) strategy going forward. The deal, which is worth more […]

Johannesburg, South Africa–From telemedicine to financial transactions, top end users and satellite industry executives of VSAT technology networks shared, this past week at SatCom Africa 2005, their insights on what […]

The outlook for the satellite manufacturing market can be summed up in two words: stable and flat, according to new research offered by consultancy Frost & Sullivan. During a recent […]

Viasat Broadcasting ended 2004 with 680,000 digital pay-TV subscribers across Scandinavia and the Baltics. This is compared to 629,000 at the end of 2003. This was one of the highlights […]

El Al Israel Airlines signed a definitive agreement to receive Connexion by Boeing‘s in-flight high-speed Internet access service for its passengers, the two companies said. The agreement calls for the […]