E-letter: Briefs

[Satellite TODAY 09-25-09] Comtech Telecommunications Corp. profits dropped 64 percent in its financial fourth quarter to $6.2 million, down from $17 million in 2008, the company announced in its financial...

[Satellite TODAY 09-25-09] Dish Network is attempting to raise about $300 million in financing through a debt securities offer, the company announced Sept. 24.     The U.S. satellite pay-TV broadcaster...

[Satellite TODAY 09-25-09] C-Com Satellite Systems received $385,000 worth of orders for its iNetVu Mobile antenna systems from resellers in China, Russia and the United Kingdom, the Canadian antenna manufacturer...

[Satellite TODAY 09-25-09] GeoEye Inc. has upped its 9.6 interest debt offering to $400 million, the imagery company announced Sept. 24.     The initial offering of $350 million was announced...

[Satellite TODAY 09-24-09] Stratos Global reached a cooperative distribution agreement with Blue Ocean Wireless (BOW) to resell BOW’s GSM service to existing Stratos customers under the brand name BOW GSM,...

[Satellite TODAY 09-24-09] Ukraine’s Cyclone-4 rocket, an upgrade to the Cyclone-3 vehicle, has been scheduled to launch from Brazil’s Alcantara space center in 2010, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko announced Sept....

[Satellite TODAY 09-24-09] Raytheon has achieved live satellite M-code tracking with its Modernized User Equipment (MUE) program, which receives signals from the GPS constellation, the company announced Sept. 23.    ...

[Satellite TODAY 09-24-09] A majority of Satellite TODAY readers said they were very impressed with 3-D HD technology demonstrations, according to the results of our online poll, conducted during August....

[Satellite TODAY 09-24-09] The first line of a Sept. 24 story should have read – The maiden launch of the SpaceX Falcon-9 rocket has been scheduled for Nov. 29, according...

[Satellite TODAY 09-24-09] International Datacasting Corp. (IDC) received an order from Media Broadcast in Germany for IDC’s SuperFlex DVB-S2 broadband satellite caching receiver, SFX4104 Pro Video with Datacast XD content...