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Jean-Marie Messier, the chairman of French utility and communications giant Vivendi, has requested that Italian pay-TV platform Stream should be excluded from Rupert Murdoch’s planned global satellite holding Platco. The […]

Gene Curcio, a California-based telecommunications entrepreneur who is leading the $50 million (52.47) bid of Venture Partners. to acquire the assets of the failed Iridium LLC satellite constellation, said he […]

Zee TV will launch a bouquet of 15 television channels in C-Band later in June, Zee Telefilms chairman Subash Chandra said last Tuesday (June 6). The 15 channels would include […]

German music channel Viva is planning a major expansion into new business areas. The ambitious plans include a broadband Internet and e-commerce platform for young people, TV- over-the-Internet services and […]

Italian publisher L’Espresso, industrial group De Benedetti and rock star Vasco Rossi are contemplating the launch of new thematic digital TV channels for the Italian TV market. The administrative council […]

Stream has reached an agreement with leading Italian commercial broadcaster Mediaset for the digital TV platform to acquire key Italian pay-TV rights to next season’s Champions League football tournament. The […]

The ITU did its best to please every last delegate at its World Radiocommunication Conference, writes Chris Bulloch The International Telecommunication Union held its first-ever World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) outside […]

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 145 degreesE: Gorizont-21 & 33 D – The last of the Gorizont […]

German public broadcaster ARD is to extend the interactive content on its free-to-air digital package. The Euro 2000 football competition will allow the approximate 70,000 households equipped with OpenTV digital […]

Ames Research Center–Information technology development, flight research, experimental aircraft development, early aircraft design; Dryden Flight Research Center–X-plane flight tests, early Space Shuttle tests, early Space Shuttle landings, current X-craft flight […]

Astrium recently inked a significant deal with Arianespace to provide 20 Ariane 5 vehicle equipment bays (VEBs). The contract is worth more than 150 million euros or US$140 million. Under […]

A flair of entrepreneurial spirit rocked the aerospace industry May 17 when the five-member Web start-up company Dreamtime Holdings Inc. snagged a NASA contract to commercialize the agency’s 85-year-old film […]

The Atlas 3A rocket, powered by new Russian-built RD-180 engine, successfully completed its maiden flight May 24 by carrying the Eutelsat W4 satellite into the proper orbit after liftoff from […]

Spot Image Corp., the U.S. subsidiary of Spot Image system, has licensed the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), formerly the Defense Mapping Agency, to release Spot Image’s older images […]

A combined “national team” has been established by three major satellite manufacturers–the Lockheed Martin Space Systems subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT], the Hughes Space and Communications subsidiary of Hughes […]

High-resolution satellite imagery could pose a realistic threat to U.S. national security. Industry companies currently commercializing these pixels claim no long-term adverse effects will occur. “After seven months of operations, […]

Arianespace’s sales and net income for 1999 slipped slightly from 1998 levels, the France-led launch organization reported at its annual meeting May 30. Sales for 1999 fell to about $908.5 […]

With all the buzz swirling around the Internet via satellite sector, one would think contracts totaling approximately $16 million won by NetSat Express Inc. would spark an interest in its […]

Akamai Technologies Inc. [AKAM] of Cambridge, Mass., has announced two major programs to deliver Internet content by satellite – one with Loral Corp. [LOR], the other with Cidera Inc. Loral […]

SSE Telecom Inc. [SSET] of Fremont, Calif., and Harmonic Data Systems Ltd. (HDS) have agreed that SSE will provide its VSAT earth stations to HDS’s customers for two-way Internet access. […]

Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] could very well end up being the little mobile satellite company that could. In spite of a slow start and mounting criticism from the financial community, the […]

Orbcomm de Mexico, the Orbital Communications Corp. [ORB] licensee for Mexico and most of Central America, has received its license from the Mexican Secretaria de Communicaciones y Transportes and launched […]

The death of Irving Goldstein last Friday has led key industry officials to recall the substantial contributions he made to the satellite industry at critical times during its development. As […]

TYSON’S CORNER, Va.–The single most important way to trim the cost of obtaining Internet services via satellite is to avoid downtime from technical glitches, said Kay Sears, vice president of […]

Forcing Mobile Satellites to Provide Data Service Over the past decade the digital revolution has transformed the way we think about communications services. Telecommunications companies have converted from analog to […]

Internet company Europe Online and the video-on-demand free broadcaster IchooseTV.com have formed a strategic alliance. The Europe Online network is carried on the Astra Satellite System and the new partnership […]

BSkyB has signed a deal with Exel, creating a new distribution centre, as the broadcaster continues to attempt to keep pace with the demand for digital upgrades. The new national […]

SES has appointed Martin Halliwell to the newly created position of director of communications technology. He will also serve as a member of the management committee. Halliwell will be responsible […]

Kingston TLI, the satellite services arm of the Kingston Communications Group, is adding two new C-Band earth stations for Indian Ocean coverage. This will triple the number of earth stations […]

Film and video distributor Metrodome, is set to move into streaming video on the Web through a joint venture with the Digital Broadcasting Company (DBC), the PPV group which broadcasts […]