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Following the positive experience of Radio Italia with Video Italia, Italy’s most listened to radio station, Radio Deejay has announced plans to launch its own satellite TV channel. Deejay TV […]

German pay-TV broadcaster Premiere World will finally activate the return channel via the digital decoder d-box this year. According to Robert Blickhan, head of Premiere World’s distribution and retail marketing […]

Lockheed Martin has, as expected, been awarded the contract to a build NSS-6 satellite for New Skies Satellite. NSS-6, from 95 degrees East, will be an A2100AX (launch mass 4650 […]

Telecom Italia may eventually try to sell its 50 per cent stake in Italian pay-TV operator Stream in exchange for a minority interest in Rupert Murdoch’s new holding Sky Global. […]

Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) has signed a “multi-year” deal with DTH operator The Arab Radio and Television Satellite Network (ART). Three separate 24-hour channels will offer CNN International, Cartoon Network […]

Newly promoted Italian first division club Napoli FC has decided to disown an existing TV rights contract with Tele+ in favour of a more profitable deal with rival pay-TV operator […]

The board of directors of Spanish satellite company Hispasat has given the green light for building its fourth unit 1D, will a launch scheduled for the autumn of 2002. Hispasat […]

INTERSPACE’S IN-DEPTH STUDY OF EUROPEAN SATELLITE ACTIVITY, COMPILED BY MIKE FALLON Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 80 degreesE: Express-6A A – Moscow-based TV6 appears to have left 3875 […]

The Swedish aerospace manufacturer Saab Ericsson Space has won two subcontracts to supply onboard electronic systems for satellites under construction. Under one of the subcontracts, the company will provide 45 […]

Hughes Electronics Corp. [GMH] named three new corporate vice presidents. Pat Doyle was promoted to corporate vice president for finance and acting treasurer. He joined the company in 1992 as […]

Societe Europeenne des Satellites (SES) has announced a further intercontinental expansion–the move into the Western Hemisphere that it long has planned. It is investing $135 million in Embratel’s satellite Ivision […]

As satellite business executives look forward to the first years of the 21st century, they can expect the landscape of multimedia space-based applications to remain turbulent. More than ever, in […]

Investors are optimistic with L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. [LLL], sighting the company’s second quarter results show growth as well as continued integration success. The company reported revenue of $461 million, […]

The last in a series of powerful medium-data-rate (MDR) communications payloads for the U.S. Air Force Milstar satellite program was shipped by Hughes Space and Communications Co. [GMH] to Lockheed […]

International Launch Services (ILS) announced last week that it has received more than $1 billion in new launch orders through July 2000. The new business includes 13 firm launch orders […]

A significant milestone for the International Space Station was completed July 25 when the Russian service module Zvezda flawlessly locked down to the ISS orbiter after more than a year’s […]

Changes are needed in U.S. laws to stem continuing delays in the export of U.S. satellites and components, according to a letter from the California delegation in the U.S. House […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] said it successfully launched a Minotaur rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., July 19 carrying a multiple-experiment satellite for the Defense Department. At 4:09 p.m. […]

Spot Image Corp. has been named a U.S. Geological Survey business partner to distribute commercially Landsat 7 satellite images. To be named a business partner, Spot committed itself to the […]

Sea Launch officials breathed dawned smiles July 28 when the Russian and Ukrainian-built Zenit 3SL rocket rose from the Odyssey platform and successfully delivered its payload into orbit. Now, Sea […]

EMS Technologies Inc. [ELMG] said its Caltrac Star Tracker system successfully provided critical navigation functions to the STS-101 mission crew during an experiment in orbital attitude readiness involving ISS. The […]

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (HCM) selected Orbcomm Global L.P. to monitor, track and control its fleet of general-purpose hydraulic excavators. The Information Excavator system, developed jointly by HCM and […]

Globalstar USA said it has expanded the geographic coverage of its services to include almost all of Alaska, regions of the North Pacific to the International Date Line, portions of […]

PhoenixNet Ltd. signed an agreement with Yahoo! Hong Kong to provide broadband-enabled services via satellite across the Asia Pacific region. According to the agreement, PhoenixNet will provide Yahoo! Hong Kong […]

The Societe Europeenee des Satellites, the Luxembourg-based satellite broadcaster that plans to start delivering the Internet via satellite later this year, and iBEAM Broadcasting Corp. [IBEM], a two-year-old Silicon Valley […]

Final Analysis Inc., which is building a Little LEO satellite system for data communications, has awarded further satellite construction contracts to General Dynamics Corp. [GD] and L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. […]

iSky completed a second round of financing, raising $137 million, toward the first phase of its planned Ka-band satellite system. Echostar Communications Corp. [DISH] was the lead investor in the […]

LAS VEGAS – The advent of satellite-delivered broadband services is one of the most “exciting” developments in the industry, Chuck Hewitt, president of the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association (SBCA), […]

Lessons Learned from Iridium, ICO, and Globalstar – Part I The communications satellite industry is facing a profound crisis. The financial disaster created by the Big LEO experiments has far-reaching […]

In an effort to put years of accounting problems behind it, Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] appointed a new chief financial officer (CFO). Garrett Pierce will become an executive vice president, […]