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SES Astra has claimed another high-definition (HD) first in Europe with a potential landmark in commercial free-to-air (FTA) television. It teamed with ProSiebenSat 1 to announce that on Oct. 14, […]

Qualcomm Inc. [QCOM] deployed two new security enhancements to its OmniTRACS satellite fleet management solution. The first is a vehicle immobilization device that allows the authorized operator of a truck […]

EchoStar Communications Corp. [DISH] late Friday said that, effective Oct. 1, its EchoStar DBS Corp. subsidiary completed the early redemption of all outstanding 10- 3/8 percent senior notes due 2007. […]

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [GILTF] inked a deal to supply the Ukrainian National Lottery with a satellite-based VSAT network based on its Skystar Advantage VSAT platform. The Ukrainian National Lottery […]

Dulles, Va.-based Orbimage gained a big boost for its business by winning a $500 million, multi-year pact to give high-resolution imagery to the U.S. government under a contract awarded by […]

Amid an industry-wide consolidation trend, room still exists for startup ventures that can match good ideas with sound management, financing and regulatory support. Those ingredients all are in place at […]

Patrick Brant, the new president of Bedminster, N.J. Loral Skynet, has a vision of turning the company into a provider of hybrid networking services that will use satellites, fiber and […]

Ottawa, Canada-based SkyWave Mobile Communications, a provider of Inmarsat D+ satellite airtime, services and terminal equipment, is pursuing an aggressive expansion program that will seize on its recent receipt of […]

This fall, General Motors [GM] is aiming to produce 3 million vehicles in North America during the 2006 model year equipped with its Global Positioning System-enabled (GPS) OnStar in-vehicle safety […]

Many satellite operators view Africa as a potential growth market. Last month, SES Astra announced that it was extending its provision of state-of-the-art satellite services to the entire African continent […]

Asset tracking is a key “remote application” outside the mainstream wireless markets of voice, data and now video. To the companies that offer the service, including wireless and satellite providers, […]

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based unit of Lockheed Martin [LMT], won the biggest U.S. military satellite communications pact that likely will be awarded during the next two […]

Wall Street analysts are offering a consensus estimate that Washington, D.C.-based XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] will pre-announce that it amassed in the neighborhood of 430,000 third-quarter net new subscribers. That […]

Ottawa, Canada-based NAV Canada reached an agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration to extend the benefits of satellite-navigation technology to all aircraft operators that fly in Canadian airspace. The agreement […]

The Republic of Azerbaijan is the newest member of the Intersputnik International Organization of Space Communications. Initially Intersputnik had nine member countries. Now that Azerbaijan has joined the organization, the […]

Englewood, Colo.-based EchoStar Communications Corporation‘s [DISH] DISH Network satellite-television service expanded the number of markets in which it offers local channels to 150 last week when it added Terre Haute, […]

Washington-based WorldSpace filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch and operate the AfriStar-2 satellite and to co-locate it at 21º East with the company’s AfriStar-1 satellite. […]

Columbia Communications Corporation, a SES Americom acquisition, filed an amendment with the FCC to its pending application for modification of the AMC-12 satellite at 37.5º West. The amendment provides new […]

WB Holdings 1 LLC, an affiliated organization of fledgling satellite broadband service WildBlue, filed a request for Special Temporary Authority to operate its Ka-band payload (29250 MHz-30000 MHz, 8350 MHz-28600 […]

In America, we are taught the importance of finishing first. Winning teams are celebrated, their head coaches are venerated and their top players typically are rewarded generously. Losers, no matter […]

Bethesda, Md.-based National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) chose Dulles, Va.-based Orbimage to receive a NextView contract that calls for the company to provide the U.S. government with high-resolution imagery from next-generation […]

BSkyB announced plans of a fresh marketing drive as it bids to increase its subscriber numbers still further in the UK and Ireland. The carrier, which has around 7.4 million […]

Satellite Today has learned that “The Final Cut,” a new science-fiction film starring Robin Williams, will be distributed exclusively to 115 AMC Theaters in 27 markets via satellite technology instead […]

Despite the recent surge in hurricane activity in Florida, International Launch Services (ILS) and Lockheed Martin [LMT] said the launch facilities at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station survived “relatively unscathed,” […]

Satellite Phone Source Inc. [SPHI.PK] unveiled its plan to become the Number One U.S. provider of satellite phones next year. The company is working with service providers and phone manufacturers […]

Ecuavisa Internacional, reportedly the top-ranked television station in Ecuador, has been added to the “DirecTV Para Todos” Spanish-language-programming platform offered by direct-to-home satellite-TV provider DirecTV Inc. [DTV]. DirecTV signed an […]

DigitalGlobe inked a deal making Merrick Advanced Photogrammetry of the Americas S. de R.L. de C.V. an authorized reseller of QuickBird high-resolution satellite imagery in Mexico. Financial terms were not […]

Industry Canada, that country’s regulatory body, awarded a provisional license Monday to fledgling Ottawa-based satellite operator Ciel Satellite Communications Inc. The provisional license allows Ciel to proceed with its plans […]

The Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) formally introduced itself today at a press conference in Washington, D.C. The new group, consisting initially of 28 companies that span the IT […]

Top Up TV wants to carve out a niche in the increasingly competitive lower end of the digital pay-TV market in the U.K. by launching a brand-new pay-TV package called […]