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The Satellite News Financial Ticker
Week of Sept. 26 – Oct. 2, 2003 Percentage Change Symbol Oct. 2 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.92 (17.2) […]
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XM’s Subscriber Total Passes 929,000
Washington D.C.-based XM Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: XMSR], the largest U.S. satellite radio service provider, reported this week that it reached 929,648 subscribers after adding 237,395 during the third quarter. That […]
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EchoStar Completes $2.5B Debt Offering
EchoStar DBS, a subsidiary of EchoStar Communications [Nasdaq: DISH], has closed its previously announced offering of $2.5 billion aggregate principal amount of senior notes. Littleton, Colo.-based EchoStar is the second-largest […]
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Sarantel Offers Small GPS Antenna
U.K.-based Sarantel announced the availability of a small surface-mount version of its GeoHelix GPS antennas for applications requiring internal or tightly integrated surface mount antennas. The company said its GeoHelix-SMP […]
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Inforetech Becomes GPS Industries
Inforetech Wireless Technology, a Vancouver, British Columbia-based provider of GPS products for the golf industry, has changed its name to GPS Industries [OTC BB: GPSN] to reflect its broader market […]
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Diamond Aircraft Adds Garmin’s G1000 To DA40
Diamond Aircraft has selected Garmin International‘s G1000 integrated avionics system for the 2004 DA40 Diamond Star aircraft. The DA40 features a dual-display G1000 system, a 10-inch primary flight display (PFD) […]
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Auto-Q Gets $125,000 Order from U.K. Furniture Chain
Auto-Q International [OTC BB: AUTQ], a London-based provider of vehicle tracking and monitoring systems for trucking fleets and consumers, received an additional purchase order totaling $125,000 from U.K. furniture and […]
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SATELLITE TODAY’s Company Profile
This week, we take a closer look at a company that is proving it can “Dish” it out as well as take a little competition in the direct broadcast satellite […]
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Rainbow DBS Targets HDTV Market
Rainbow DBS, the direct broadcast satellite (DBS) division of Cablevision Systems [NYSE: CVC], announced plans this week to become the first satellite TV service to offer a comprehensive array of […]
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Space Systems/Loral To Build DirecTV Satellites
Space Systems Loral (SS/L), a Palo Alto, Calif.-based satellite manufacturing subsidiary of Loral Space and Communications [OTCBB: LRLSQ], has received a welcome order from DirecTV, an El Segundo, Calif.-based satellite […]
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Iridium Chairman To Retire, New Chief Named
Arlington, Va.-based Iridium Holdings, the holding company for global satellite communications provider Iridium Satellite, has announced that Dan Colussy will retire as chairman of the board. Colussy, who shepherded the […]
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EchoStar Extends Local Channels To Tennessee, Oregon
Littleton, Colo.-based EchoStar Communications [Nasdaq: DISH] has agreed to offer local TV channels via satellite to Eugene, Ore., and Memphis, Tenn. Local channels at the two locations will be offered […]
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Alaska Communications Systems Reaches Settlement With State
Anchorage, Alaska-based Alaska Communications Systems Group [Nasdaq: ALSK] has reached a voluntary settlement with the state of Alaska regarding the comprehensive telecommunications service agreement signed by both parties in December […]
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STMicroelectronics Shipments To XM Total 2 Million
STMicroelectronics’ [NYSE: STM] total chipset shipments to XM Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: XMSR] now exceeds two million kits, according to the company. STMicroelectronics also has delivered samples of a one-chip receiver […]
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Connexion By Boeing Appoints Europe-based Communications Manager
Connexion By Boeing, a business unit of Boeing [NYSE: BA], has appointed Elissaveta Ivanova as communications manager for Europe. She will be based in London and will manage Connexion by […]
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Regulatory Review: The Information Society–Where Does Satellite Fit In?
by Gerry Oberst The acronym WSIS does not stand for "what’s this?" but instead is an ambitious "World Summit on the Information Society" organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). […]
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Multimedia Matters: Satellite Broadband–What Lies Ahead In SOHO And SME?
by Douglas Graham Small office/ home office (SOHO) and small-to-medium enterprise companies (SMEs) are potential growth sectors for satellite broadband. These days nearly every business is Internet-driven to at least […]
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Compression 2003: MPEG-2 & Beyond
The satellite industry is starting to feel slight tremors in the ground as the next generation of encoders is starting to make its presence known. While the encoder of tomorrow […]
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Cover Story: VSAT Moneymakers: Around The World
By James Careless VSAT: the acronym means Very Small Aperture Terminals. But for VSAT operators around the world, VSAT means opportunity. Consistently, it seems that someone, somewhere comes up with […]
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The Middle East: Broadcasting, Broadband And Business Growth
By Nick Mitsis When one thinks of satellite communications and the Middle East, 24-hour-a-day combat operations executed in part through the use of space-based technology materialize in one’s mind. Even […]
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Dollars And Sense: The Long, Not So Hot, Summer–U.S. Launch Sector Struggles For Rationalization
by Chris Mecray The summer of 2003 was clearly tough for the global space market, as commercial players struggled to hold on until some semblance of a recovery kicks in–and […]
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Digital Globe Wins $500 Million Contract From NIMA
DigitalGlobe, of Longmont, Colo., won a huge $500 million, five-year contract from the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) to provide high-resolution imagery from the next series of U.S. commercial […]
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GPS Market To Hit $22B By 2008, ABI Says
Emerging applications using the Global Positioning System (GPS) and renewed growth in existing markets will help to expand the global GPS market beyond $22 billion by 2008, predicted New York-based […]
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Globecomm Awarded $4.4 Million In Contracts
Hauppauge, NY-based Globecomm Systems [Nasdaq: GCOM] has been awarded multiple satellite infrastructure contracts and a service contract worth a combined value of approximately $4.4 million. The names of the customers […]
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Eagle Broadband Restructures
League City, Texas-based Eagle Broadband [AMEX: EAG], a manufacturer of products that use the Iridium satellite constellation to provide communication services, has restructured its operations to increase revenue and become […]
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SES Astra, IDC Invest In African Broadband Venture
SES Astra, a Luxembourg-based unit of SES Global [Luxembourg: SESG], and Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) of South Africa have agreed to invest in IP Direct, a satellite broadband venture started […]
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Sea Launch Blasts Galaxy XIII/Horizons-1 Satellite Into Orbit
Sea Launch, a joint of Boeing [NYSE: BA] and foreign partners, successfully launched the Galaxy XIII/Horizons-1, a Boeing 601HP satellite, for PanAmSat [Nasdaq: SPOT] and JSAT of Japan. The satellite […]
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