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TPS, the number two satellite pay-TV platform in France, added only 20,000 net new subscribers in the first half of 2003, compared to 35,000 net new subscribers for the first […]

By Patrick French and Karim Nour With revenues dropping slightly from an estimated $887 million in 2001 to $877 million in 2002, the Latin American satellite transponder market is beginning […]

PanAmSat [Nasdaq: SPOT] had revenues of $203.4 million in the second quarter of this year, a drop of just under 3 per cent compared to the corresponding quarter last year. […]

Spain’s Iberia Airlines has selected ARINC to deliver a package of satellite communications services for the passengers and crew on its entire fleet of long-haul aircraft, including new Airbus A340-600s. […]

Digital Angel [AMEX: DOC], a St. Paul, Minn.-based GPS tracking device maker, has signed six new exclusive distribution agreements with companies in Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, the Caribbean, the Dominican Republic […]

Hughes Network Systems, a Germantown, Md.-based broadband satellite unit of Hughes Electronics [NYSE: GMH], has selected Grintek Telecom, a South African information and communications technology company, as its representative in […]

Spain’s Iberia Airlines has selected ARINC to deliver a package of satellite communications services for the passengers and crew on its entire fleet of long-haul aircraft, including new Airbus A340-600s. […]

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has chosen the Atlas V expendable launch vehicle provided by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] as the launch system for the proposed Pluto New Horizons […]

Hughes Network Systems, a Germantown, Md.-based broadband satellite unit of Hughes Electronics [NYSE: GMH], has signed a contract with UAE- based Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications for the design and supply of […]

Stratos, a Bethesda, Md.-based provider of remote communications solutions and services, has been awarded a five-year contract to upgrade and enhance the satellite-based communications infrastructure on the Ramform Banff, a […]

EMS Technologies [Nasdaq: EMLG] has received a contract valued at $5.7 million from Italian satellite manufacturer Alenia Spazio to supply switching technology for the Cosmo SkyMed earth observation satellite mission […]

Week of July 18-24, 2003 Percentage Change Symbol July 24 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 3.05 (17.6) 38.0 160.7 77.3 […]

The two leading direct broadcast satellite (DBS) providers in the United States are responding to competition from cable TV by aligning themselves with the Bell phone companies to provide bundled […]

The Rainbow 1 satellite recently launched by International Launch Services for New York-based Cablevision Systems [NYSE: CVC] poses a legitimate threat to existing satellite TV service providers Hughes Electronics’ [NYSE: […]

Boeing’s [NYSE: BA] realignment of its launch and satellite businesses last week is another sign of how the industry’s downturn is causing even one of the largest, most diversified companies […]

Iridium Satellite, an Arlington, Va.-based provider of global satellite voice and data communications, now can offer communication services in post-war Iraq. Permission was granted by the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority […]

By Jimmy Schaeffler The overall U.S. satellite radio industry had an estimated 802,000 subscribers by the end of the second quarter. The sector’s rate of growth leaves it within weeks […]

Industry speculation that Intelsat agreed to pay more than market value for the North American satellite assets of Loral Space and Communications [NYSE: LOR] is way off the mark, Intelsat’s […]

SpaceDev [OTC BB: SPDV.OB] of Poway, Calif., has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to explore the use of microsatellites in national missile defense. In […]

Loral Space and Communications [NYSE: LOR] agreed last week to sell arguably its most precious assets and to enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy-court protection for the chance of emerging from the […]

Intelsat Ltd., of Hamilton, Bermuda, is addressing one of its most glaring weaknesses by signing a definitive asset purchase agreement to acquire six Loral Skynet satellites and orbital slots over […]

Major League Baseball fans in more than 200 countries worldwide watched last week’s All-Star Game with an assist that came from a distance much further away than the nose-bleed seats […]

By Sean Badding The digital satellite radio industry’s run to its one-millionth subscriber is approaching fast. The Carmel Group predicts this first major milestone will be broken during August-September 2003. […]

PanAmSat [Nasdaq: SPOT] President and CEO Joseph Wright said that technical problems aboard two of the company’s Boeing 601 model satellites now in orbit will not disrupt services to customers […]

Hughes Electronics [NYSE: GMH] and its satellite TV subsidiary, DirecTV, last week bucked the industry-downturn trend by revealing strong financial results for the second quarter ended June 30. Hughes reported […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Not content with its position in the New York cable TV market, Cablevision Systems [NYSE: CVC] plans to take on the two direct broadcast satellite (DBS) […]

Week of July 11 – 17, 2003 Percentage Change Symbol July 17 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 3.25 (3.0) 55.5 […]

93.5 degreesE: Insat 3A D India’s Doordarshan Maharashtra service has launched on 3960 MHz vertical, SR 5000, FEC 3/4, VPID 1110, APID 1211 in free-to-air MPEG-2. This service is for […]

The European Space Agency has awarded contracts for experimental Galileo satellites, forerunners of the satellite navigation system’s in-orbit validation phase. The first satellite is to be launched during the second […]

At the end of August, Arianespace is preparing to launch three satellites onboard an Ariane 5 rocket from its Kourou spaceport in French Guiana. The three satellites are the European […]