E-letter: Briefs

[Satellite Today 04-28-09] Telekom Austria TA launched a satellite global service package for international Internet service providers and government organizations, the company announced April 27.     The service bundle has...

[Satellite Today 04-28-09] An American Arbitration Association panel has ordered Sea Launch to pay Hughes Network Systems about $52 million in a dispute over whether Hughes had the legal right...

[Satellite Today 04-24-09] German pay-TV operator Premiere has sold its 44 percent stake in Internet sports platform, Spox.com to the CRESCES Group, the company said April 22.     Premiere, a...

[Satellite Today 04-24-09] Viasat Broadcasting, a Modern Times Group (MTG) subsidiary has 822,000 DTH subscribers, a across the Nordic region at the end of March, a loss of 10,000 customers...

[Satellite Today 04-24-09] CapRock Communications changed the name of its federal government division, Arrowhead Global Solutions to CapRock Government Solutions, CapRock announced April 22.     According to CapRock, name the...

[Satellite Today 04-24-09] Hughes Network Systems has signed a three-year satellite broadband deal in Brazil with the State of Santa Catarina Administration Department to provide broadband satellite service to the...

[Satellite Today 04-24-09] SES Americom-New Skies has signed a new capacity deal with DRS Technologies, renewing an agreement for 160 megahertz of satellite capacity and connectivity to support the DRS...

[Satellite Today 04-27-09] Dumrong Kasemset will step down as executive chairman of Thaicom in mid-May, the company announced April 23.     Kasemset has been the director of Thaicom’s satellite broadband...

[Satellite Today 04-27-09] International Datacasting Corp.‘s (IDC) wholly owned subsidiary, ProFline B.V., has been awarded a contract to provide a next-generation satellite distribution network to German public broadcaster Sud-West-Rundfunk (SWR),...

[Satellite Today 04-27-09] Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX)  completed qualification testing of its Draco spacecraft thruster and Draco propulsion tank, the launch company announced April 24.     The Draco thruster test...