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Kardio-TV, the German medical channel planned by Munich-based Doc-Media AG in co-operation with Beta Business TV, a subsidiary of Kirch Group, intends to reach 3,000 doctors when it launches via […]

The Eutelsat orbital constellation (Interspace 699, page 8) was badly affected by printer’s gremlins. The corrected version appears below. For good order’s sake it is also worth clarifying that the […]

Italian portal and Yellow Pages publisher Seat Pagine Gialle has agreed to buy 75 per cent of terrestrial TV broadcaster TMC for L750 billion (E387 million). Seat, which is merging […]

Iran’s Deputy Minister of Post, Telegraph and Telephone for National Affairs, Mehdi Tabeshian, said that the tender process to build the national satellite Zohreh is underway, although he did not […]

German anti-media concentration commission Kommission zur Ermittlung der Konzentration im Medienbereich (KEK) has approved BSkyB’s investment in Premiere World. Through subsidiary BSkyB Germany, the UK-based pay-TV group will take a […]

A Starsem Soyuz-Fregat rocket carried out the launch of the final two Cluster 2 scientific satellites for the European Space Agency (ESA) from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Liftoff on Aug. […]

Comsat Corp.’s [CQ] 38-year existence as an independent company came to an end this month when Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] completed its purchase of Comsat, following final approval from the […]

iSky, a Denver, Colo., company that is developing a Ka-band satellite system for two-way Internet access has changed its name to WildBlue Communications, claiming that the name “embodies the frontier […]

A commercial Delta 3 rocket will be launched next week with a simulated payload that The Boeing Co. [BA], the U.S. Air Force and the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research […]

Inmarsat Ventures Ltd. reported an unaudited net profit of $52.5 million or $5.25 per basic share on revenue of $210.6 for the first half of the year, ending June 30. […]

Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. [SIRI] said in-orbit testing of its first radio broadcasting satellite, Sirius 1, was completed successfully July 31, with all systems performing to specifications. Sirius is one […]

Trimble Navigation Ltd. [TRMB], of Sunnyvale, Calif., has won a three-year contract to supply its high precision 4700 GPS receivers for SuomiNet, a university-based, national GPS network that is being […]

NetSat Express Inc., a provider of Internet connectivity services by satellite and a majority-owned subsidiary of Globecomm Systems Inc. [GCOM], announced the signing of a three-year contract with Microtec, an […]

New Skies Satellite NV, the private satellite operator already spun off from Intelsat, has contracted with Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems for the turnkey construction of its seventh satellite, NSS […]

An unmanned Russian supply Progress rocket blasted off Aug. 6 to link up to the International Space Station. Progress was carrying fuel, technical equipment, food and water for the space […]

Space Media Inc., a subsidiary of SpaceHab Inc. [SPAB], officially solidified its joint venture with RSC Energia Aug. 3. The two companies now are completing their business and marketing plans. […]

Cidera Inc. of Laurel, Md., which specializes in delivering Internet connectivity via satellite, has agreed with start-up company LayerOne Inc. to deploy Cidera’s content delivery service at the neutral network […]

The Japanese Science and Technology Agency plans to spend roughly $457.6 million beginning with the Japanese government’s next fiscal year to develop advanced communications satellites designed for high-speed Internet service, […]

Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. [SIRI] said in-orbit testing of its first radio broadcasting satellite, Sirius 1, was successfully completed July 31, with all systems performing to specifications. Sirius is one […]

Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN) and Digital Seas International have signed a three-year contract to provide Renaissance Cruises’ fleet with Internet Cafés. Following a successful trial on one of the Renaissance […]

Last month, ICO-Teledesic Global Ltd., the holding company that controls the satellite assets of telecommunications pioneer Craig McCaw, named Greg Clarke as the new CEO to help bring ICO-Teledesic’s vision […]

NetSat28 and Morning Star Satellite Co. LLC joined PanAmSat Corp. [SPOT] in filing appeals to recover the Ka-band licenses that were revoked by the FCC earlier this year. Between the […]

In the July 27 issue of MOBILE SATELLITE NEWS, we reported that Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] replaced outgoing Chief Financial Officer Jeffrey Pirone with incoming head Garrett Pierce. In that […]

After a long, torturous period of being kept on life support, it seems that the time has finally come for the plug to be pulled on Iridium LLC and to […]

Layoffs, Emergency Financing Latest Measures Taken To Keep Company Alive The situation at Orbcomm Global Ltd. [OSC] appears to have gone from bad to worse. The company last week underwent […]

Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] has introduced service in Russia, beginning the process of bringing mobile satellite phone service to virtually every corner of the vast country, where many communities have little […]

The Arabsat Consortium said it has created a new Internet Division to meet the “overwhelming global demand for high-speed Internet connectivity solutions throughout the Middle East and North Africa.” The […]

Spanish Pay-TV group Sogecable recorded a net profit of PTA 345 million (E2.1 million) in the first six months of the year, compared with losses of PTA 1.1 million (E6,611) […]

Boeing has already launched its Connexion system for broadband communications to business aircraft, and at the Farnborough Air Show last month presented its development as a commercial system for the […]

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 […]