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Microspace Communications Corp., a provider of point-to-multipoint satellite services, said Nov. 7 it provided digital delivery for the Disney feature film “Chicken Little” Nov. 4 via its Velocity satellite service […]

NSE New Skies Satellites Holdings Ltd. reported Nov. 9 a profit of $6.1 million on revenues of $61.2 million in the third quarter 2005. “Revenues are 14 percent higher relative […]

Skyterra Communications Inc., an affiliate of New York-based private equity firm Apollo Management LP, has executed an agreement to acquire the remaining 50 percent of Hughes Network Systems LLC (HNS) […]

Spacedev Chairman and CEO Jim Benson hopes the company’s newly unveiled MMB-100 microsatellite will change the satellite industry the way microcomputers changed the computer world. The microsatellite bus is intended […]

As with any significant transaction, there is always a first step needed to get the forward momentum going. The Intelsat–Panamsat merger took its first step toward completion when Panamsat shareholders […]

French pay-TV operator Canalsat is beginning to gain a significant amount of customers via non-satellite channels as the company bids to increase its subscriber numbers in France, a company official […]

Following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., increasing the safety and security of U.S. ports became one of the many areas the federal […]

Given the amount of effort going into the marketing of Inmarsat‘s forthcoming Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service, the high-speed data access service should be a significant component of the […]

Intelsat Ltd. said Nov. 10 in its third quarter financial report that, based on failure review board analysis (FRB), the most likely cause of the of the total failure of […]

Sea Launch Co. delivered the second satellite designed to provide the service, Inmarsat-4 F2, to geosynchronous transfer orbit Nov. 8. The Zenit-3SL rocket lifted off from the platform at Sea […]

Spacedev Inc. closed the sale of $2.5 million of securities to Laurus Master Fund Ltd., the company announced Nov. 2. The proceeds from the sale will provide working capital, including […]

Harris Corp. introduced a new XTCE database converter for the company’s OS/Comet satellite command and control suite of products. The new database allows users to translate databases in XTCE to […]

Delphi Corp. delivered the first shipment of the new DS300 satellite transceiver modem to Stellar Satellite Communications, Delphi announced Nov.2. The modem, aimed at the asset-tracking market, delivers data via […]

The Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group (SUIRG) launched an online, interactive database to consolidate and tracks incidents of satellite radio frequency interference within the geostationary arc, the organization announced. The […]

U.K. satellite pay-TV operator BSkyB has teamed up with Vodafone to launch Sky Mobile TV to deliver broadcast video services to Vodafone mobile phone customers. There will be two Sky […]

Globalstar announced Nov. 1 it would offer simplex, or one-way, data services to customers throughout parts of the Caribbean, Central America and the northern part of South America via its […]

Worldspace Satellite Radio announced Nov. 3 availability of its service in Ahmedabad, India, the seventh largest city in the country. Ahmedabad has a population of nearly 4 million, including more […]

SIRI While XM Satellite Radio has had a comfortable lead in terms of subscriber numbers, investors may be looking more favorably at Sirius Satellite Radio at the moment. The telling […]

The move by MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) to acquire the financially challenged Space & Technology/Montreal division of EMS Technologies Inc. drew a mixed reaction from the financial community. […]

Venezuela signed an agreement Nov. 1 to buy a satellite from China, the Venezuelan Ministry of Science and Technology announced. The Simon Bolivar Satellite will provide telecommunications services such as […]

Boeing Co.‘s government launch services business faces short-term and potentially long-term delays as the company’s union machinists went on strike Nov. 3. The strike could push back the three remaining […]

No one is ready to call Space Communication Corp.‘s (SCC) awarding of the Superbird-7 contract to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Melco) the beginning of a major shift in the satellite manufacturing […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) is leading an initiative to help preserve the Earth’s wetlands using satellite-based observation data. Global wetlands, which sustain the most biologically diverse ecosystems around the […]

Since being founded by a consortium of national telecommunications operators in 1997, Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Co. has built itself into a $1 billion regional mobile satellite telecommunications satellite system. Nearly […]

People Boeing Space And Intelligence Systems Appoints Vice President/General Manager Boeing announced that Howard Chambers was named vice president and general manager of Space And Intelligence Systems (S&IS), an operating […]

Project Exploration is a Chicago-based non-profit organization whose goal is to make natural science accessible to the public, especially urban youth. In October 2003, University of Chicago paleontologist Dr. Paul […]

I recently attended a summit that, in part, brought to the discussion floor the topic of corporate and government distance learning networks and where the next-generation trends and uses are […]

In 1991, Home Depot was well on its way to conquering the home improvement retail market in the United States. At the time, the retailer was supporting 28,000 employees in […]

Telecommunication Systems Inc., (TCS) a provider of wireless communications, announced Oct. 25 a strategic partnership with ground systems manufacturer Thrane & Thrane Inc. to develop a portable broadband system for […]

Scopus Video Networks has been chosen by a consortium formed by Embratel, Star One and Bull to provide a compressed digital video distribution solution for Boticario, one of the largest […]