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Wayne Kauffman Joins Spectrum Astro To Head West Coast Office
Wayne Kauffman has joined Spectrum Astro Inc. as director of West Coast operations, responsible for managing the Manhattan Beach, Calif., office. He will be the company’s liaison with its West […]
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Orbimage To Supply Urban Area Images To Geography Network
The Orbital Imaging Corp. subsidiary of Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] will participate in the Geography Network, an Internet-based global marketplace for geographic data and services. Orbimage will supply its high-resolution, […]
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Qualification Tests Completed On Booster Motor For Delta 4 Launchers
Technicians at Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK] completed qualification testing of the solid rocket booster motor that will be used as rocket boosters with The Boeing Co.’s [BA] new Delta 4 […]
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OSC Unit MacDonald, Dettwiler Gets $50 Million For Space Station Arm
Orbital Sciences Corp.’s [ORB] majority-owned Canadian subsidiary, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), has won a $50 million contract for the next-generation robotic arm on the International Space Station. The […]
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GPS Products Gaining Acceptance Among Users In Untapped Markets, According To Study
Even though the aviation industry continues to hold the cornerstone for Global Positioning System applications, end users outside the cockpit are not only realizing the value of this satellite technology, […]
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Orbcomm Cuts 112 Jobs, Slows New Satellite Construction
Doing business in the mobile satellite sector continues to be a challenging feat. The latest low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite system to face a cash squeeze is Orbcomm Global L.P. [ORB], the […]
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Boeing To Cut Delta Jobs, Streamlines Operations In Colorado and Alabama
The Boeing Co. [BA] plans to eliminate the jobs of up to 900 workers who work on the Delta launchers and the C-17 military cargo plane in Huntington Beach, Calif., […]
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ILS Successfully Launches TDRS H
NASA officials were all smiles June 30 when its next-generation of communications satellites successfully reached orbit aboard an Atlas 2A rocket. Marketed by International Launch Services (ILS), The Atlas 2A […]
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Zvezda Module Set For July 12 Launch
The much-delayed Russian-built Zvezda service module finally may reach the International Space Station (ISS) in a few weeks. Following a General Designer’s Review meeting in Moscow June 26, NASA and […]
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Boeing Wins Radarsat 2 Launch Contract
The Boeing Co. [BA] won a contract to launch Canada’s Radarsat 2 satellite aboard a Delta 2 rocket in three years. The launch is planned for April 2003, from Vandenberg […]
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MultiChoice Leases Capacity On Eutelsat’s New W4 Satellite
MultiChoice, a South African supplier of pay-TV programming to 44 countries in Africa and adjacent islands, has leased three transponders on Eutelsat’s W4 satellite, which went into service on July […]
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PanAmSat’s Ka-band Business Model Jolted By License Revocation
Those entrepreneurs finalizing business plans in hopes of successfully entering the broadband market may want to pay close attention to the recent lesson PanAmSat Corp. [SPOT] learned when the FCC […]
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APT Satellite, Singapore Telecom Form Joint Venture In Hong Kong
Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) announced a joint venture with APT Satellite Company Ltd. of Hong Kong, owner and operator of the three-satellite Apstar 1, 1A and 2R system. The agreement was […]
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Globalstar Provides Phones For South Korean Delegation At Korean Summit
Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] said it supplied 11 Qualcomm Inc. [QCOM] phones to the South Korean delegation to the recent Summit Meeting between the presidents of South and North Korea. South […]
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Orbcomm, Stellar Communications Introduce Dual-mode Terminal
Orbcomm Global L.P. [ORB]announced the commercial availability of the Stellar Communications ST2500 GSM subscriber communicator (SC), which can use either GSM cellular systems that are widely used outside North American, […]
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Qualcomm Joins With Decartes Systems To Expand AVL Service
Qualcomm Inc. [QCOM], which supplies trucking companies with its satellite-based OmniTracs automatic vehicle location and tracking service, has begun a program to expand the service to metropolitan fleet owners, privates […]
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Market Understanding, Flexibility Seen As Key To Broadband Satellite Success
NEW YORK–Market understanding and flexibility will be the keys to success for next-generation broadband satellite systems. “We are getting close to realizing the next generation of broadband systems,” said Eugene […]
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Iridium Hangs In Just A Little Bit Longer
Iridium LLC could end up becoming the Timex of the mobile satellite industry – it takes a licking and keeps on ticking. In the latest news, the debtors of Iridium […]
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A Conversation With Motient Corp.’s Walter Purnell
Walter Purnell, president and CEO of Motient Corp. [MTNT], recently sat down with MOBILE SATELLITE NEWS to discuss the role that a terrestrial wireless data network has played in a […]
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Insider’s Insight From Roger Rusch
Enterprise Value And Hot Spot Capability One fantastic phenomenon of the turbulent stock market is the huge enterprise value of Globalstar L.P [GSTRF] relative to other satellite programs. During May, […]
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SEA LAUNCH ANNOUNCES RETURN TO LAUNCH ACTIVITIES
Sea Launch has said it has completed its analysis of its launch failure last March 12 and is ready to return to flight late next month. Its next launch will […]
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SKY NEWS HITS ACTIVE BUTTON
BSkyB launched its Sky News Active digital service Monday (June 27). The system uses the equivalent of two digital transmission streams to deliver up to five simultaneous channels on mini-screens. […]
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STREAM SHAREHOLDERS TO RECONSIDER STRATEGY
A new meeting between Telecom Italia president Roberto Colaninno and News Corp boss Rupert Murdoch regarding the future of Italian digital satellite TV platform Stream is planned for this week. […]
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PREMIERE TO REVISE D-BOX STRATEGY
German digital pay-TV platform operator Premiere World is considering a return to retail sales in addition to the currently favoured rental model. According to industry sources, it is planned to […]
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BBC PRIME CONTRIBUTES, BUT WORLD FALTERS
BBC Worldwide says its aggregated distribution count for its global channels now tops 300 million homes. Revealing details from BBC Worldwide’s Annual Report & Accounts (to March 31 this year), […]
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VIVA PLANS TO TAKE ON US MARKET
German music channel Viva is planning to turn itself into a multimedia brand with multimedia brand with ambitions to expand into the United States. According to chairman Dieter Gorny, the […]
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ANTITRUST AUTHORITIES LAUNCH TELE+ PROBE
Italy’s antitrust regulator has started formal proceedings against Canal+-owned Italian digital TV platform Tele+, claiming that it used its dominant position to buy up an excessive share of TV rights […]
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GERMANY REVISES NATIONAL MEDIA LAW
The prime ministers of Germany’s regional states have agreed to make a number of changes to the national media law. At the heart of the new legislation is the increase […]
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AUGUST 1 LAUNCH FOR ITN ‘CONVERGENT’ NEWS CHANNEL
ITN has named August 1 as the launch date for the ITN News Channel. Describing the venture as the “World’s first fully convergent digital news channel” ITN chief executive Stewart […]
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EOL FOUNDER “TAKES BACK SEAT”
Europe Online founder Candace Johnson – and still President of the Board – has brought in Dennis Hightower, most recently president of Disney Consumer Products in Paris, as CEO “to […]