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Raytheon Co. [RTN] announced that the Navy has exercised first-year options worth some $54.4 million for satellite communications terminals for surface ships, submarines and shore stations. If the service exercises […]

The results of the second annual America’s SpacePoll are in and the winners are space exploration, NASA, satellite communications and space science and research initiatives. Even though pioneering space efforts […]

In hopes of building its secondary satellite and payload business, Space Operations International LLC (SOI) has signed a memorandum of agreement with Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT]. The companies plan to […]

By Robert N. Wold Those birds of paradise called geostationary satellites, invisible to the naked eye as they perch on the equatorial ring that circles the globe, were in especially […]

By Marc Crossman and Anh Steininger Loral has been attracting the attention of the financial community recently. Loral has reported fourth quarter and full year 1999 revenue and EBITDA results […]

by Peter J. Brown Rapid changes are transforming the broadcast world. Caching; pull or on-demand services; automation; new displays and graphical user interfaces (GUIs) are having an impact on every […]

by the Phillips Satellite Group This year’s installment of the Phillips satellite conference series, Satellite 2000, was another record-breaking event, both in terms of attendees and in the news and […]

By Theresa Foley The once elite club of satellite companies is attracting new members as Internet, media and telecom firms try to capture some of the huge growth in the […]

By Theresa Foley Mass marketing of satellite-Internet access in Europe is under way, as two startups try to attract large numbers of subscribers who want high-speed Net access using satellite […]

by Theresa Foley The higher-performance, more cost-effective expendable launch vehicles that satellite owners have desired for many years are joining the ranks of demonstrated flying machines as the new millennium […]

By Gerry Oberst Hope that the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) could decrease the flood of “paper satellites” plaguing the industry has been dashed by reports coming from the Geneva-based organization. […]

by David Hartshorn As historic moments go, this one was decidedly understated. The doors of Cable & Satellite Russia had long since been closed, the exhibit hall was nearly empty, […]

It’s more green lights and blue skies for Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI], and the satellite radio business in general, said Sirius Chairman and CEO David Margolese. He envisions automobile and […]

Trimble Navigation Ltd., [TRMB] the designer of a wide variety of civilian products enabled by Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, has introduced its newest generation receiver, the ACE III GPS […]

General Dynamics [GD] selected Raytheon Co. [RTNA] to provide the total ground network infrastructure for the FAISAT global wireless data network being developed by proposed Little LEO operator Final Analysis. […]

American Mobile Satellite Corp. [SKYC] announced its program to help subscribers who are left without service in the wake of Iridium LLC’s [IRID] demise. The Reston, Va.-based company will offer […]

Globalstar’s [GSTRF] quest for customers, at least in the United States, could become a more difficult task, due to a new dual-mode phone released by Motorola [MOT] and offered by […]

A prominent Wall Street satellite analyst cut his subscriber estimates, stock rating and stock price target for Globalstar [GSTRF], a global, mobile satellite phone service that recently launched operations in […]

Iridium’s bankruptcy is still having reverberations. Iridium’s creditors have begun their own claims against Motorola, which they allege, created the system and has failed in its legal duties to maintain […]

Institutional investors made a profit by selling shares in UK cable operator Telewest Communications stock last week, no doubt taking advantage of its high share price, and ahead of its […]

In a letter sent to the Belgian government, the European Commission urged Belgium to abolish all taxes levied on satellite dishes and to refund any taxes already paid. It estimates […]

Canal+ Cyfrowy has been ordered to stop transmitting the signals of commercial broadcasters Polsat and Nasza TV. Separately, Polsat must also cease transmitting programming made by public broadcaster TVP, according […]

The number of German-language radio services on the Astra satellite system (19.2 degrees East) continues to grow. Last Friday at 1300 CET BIG FM, the new commercial youth radio station […]

Alongside the fun and games of the next stage of the UK’s third-generation cellular licence auction, next week also sees an even longer bidding and negotiation process commence for the […]

Leading Italian terrestrial commercial broadcaster Mediaset has launched an action movie channel called Duel TV and a comedy channel called Comedy Life on Stream’s digital satellite platform. The launch of […]

Gameplay, the games marketing company, has reported that a remarkable 26 per cent of its total sales between November and January were through Open… . This means that from a […]

The merger task force of the European Commission has finally approved the creation of Astrium, initially in the form of a merger of the space activities of Matra Marconi Space […]

Italian TV and film conglomerate Cecchi Gori Group (CGG) is expected to sell its 18 per cent stake share in pay-TV operator Stream and seek an alliance with Italian state […]

French digital pay-TV operator TPS has launched an e-mail service for its subscribers, reports our sister publication Inside Digital TV. The service differs in several ways from the one introduced […]

Thematic audio service Music Choice will shortly add extra functionality to its digital satellite service. For Sky Digital from this June it will have in place extra interactivity, according to […]