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[Satellite TODAY 01-04-10] Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has agreed to launch Vietnam’s second telecommunications satellite by 2012 and assigned the state-run Vietnam Posts and Telecoms Group to be […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-04-10] U.S. facility clearance license laws have forced EMS Technologies to appoint Board Chairman John Mowell to the additional position of executive director, the company announced Jan. 4. […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-04-10] XipLink has contracted Tessco Technologies as its North American value-added distributor, XipLink announced Jan. 4.     Tessco, based in Hunt Valley, Md., will provide delivery and logistics […]

[Satellite TODAY 01-04-10] DigitalGlobe’s high-resolution WorldView-2 satellite has achieved full operational capability on schedule, the imagery company announced Jan. 4.     WorldView-2, launched in October, offers eight multispectral bands, which […]

[Satelllite TODAY 01-04-10] Avanti Communications will begin 2010 in good spirits after ending 2009 with a secured a debt facility of £194 million ($313.34 million) for Hylas 2 from The […]

[Satelllite News 01-04-09] Avanti Communications will begin 2010 in good spirits after ending 2009 with a secured a debt facility of £194 million ($313.34 million) for Hylas 2 from The […]

Fred Pope comes from an economics background and says he entered the satellite sector “by accident.” But as CEO of Satcom Resources, a business that relies in large part on […]

Andrew Solutions Releases 1-Meter Microwave Antenna Andrew Solutions unveiled a 1-meter microwave backhaul antenna under its ValuLine Vision product line. The ValuLine Vision antenna’s electrical design aims to enhance radiation […]

AsiaSat To Broadcast East Asian Games AsiaSat has won a contract from East Asian Games (Hong Kong) Ltd. to supply satellite capacity on AsiaSat 3S for live television coverage of […]

CASBAA Re-elects Chairman; adds Disney Executive as Member The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has re-elected Marcel Fenez, global director of entertainment and media practice for PricewaterhouseCoopers, […]

Arinc Integrates Broadband on Boeing Business Jet Arinc. Inc. has completed the first integration and testing of eXchange with Service by SKYLink on a Boeing Business Jet. The installation combines […]

Boeing, U.S. Air Force Receive U.S. Military Excellence Award for WGS Boeing and the U.S. Air Force received a U.S. Department of Defense “Top 5” excellence award for systems engineering […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-11-10] Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with French and Italian space agencies CNES and ASI, to develop, construct, test and deliver in orbit a broadband civil […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-31-09] SatMax Corp. signed a new agreement with Houston-based TLC Engineering, SatMax announced Dec. 30.     TLC will offer the SatMax line of satellite communications extenders to U.S. […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-31-09] There will be no Satellite TODAY Daily News Feed on Jan. 1, due to the New Year’s Day holiday. We will resume our normal publication schedule on […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-31-09] Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has been contracted to build the Nimiq 6 satellite for Telesat, SS/L announced Dec. 30. The Ku-band satellite will be based on SS/L’s 1300 […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-31-09] The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has awarded three indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contracts for Commercial Satellite Synthetic Aperture Radar (COMSAR) imagery, data products, and direct downlink services, the […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-31-09] Irdeto has linked-up with Humax to develop a secure HD set-top box for the Middle East region, the two companies announced Dec. 29.       The set-top box, […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-30-09] Although the number of households with antennas in the U.S. fell slightly in the last year, about 11 percent of U.S. households, or about 13 million homes, […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-30-09] U.S. Congress has extended government indemnification of U.S. commercial launches for another three years, the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) announced Dec. 24.     The indemnification regime, set […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-30-09] CBS and Walt Disney are considering a deal with Apple to join forces in order to create an iTunes subscription-based service for online video, The Wall Street […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-30-09] According to a Satellite TODAY Quick Poll issued in December, a majority of respondents claimed that their businesses broke even in 2009, compared to 2008.     When […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-30-09] International Launch Services (ILS) successfully launched the DirecTV-12 satellite aboard a Proton Breeze M rocket from the Khrunichev Research and Production Center in Baikonur, ILS announced Dec. […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-29-09] Sypris Solutions was awarded about $5 million in new orders from a variety of customers in December to make electronic components supporting commercial and government satellite systems, […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-29-09] Bolivia expects to construct and launch Tupac Katari, the country’s first telecommunication satellite and cooperative project with China, within three years, the Bolivian government announced Dec. 22. […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-29-09] WorldSpace’s Indian operation will close down at the end of this year, the operator announced late last week.     WorldSpace said the potential buyer of much of […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-29-09] Iran plans to unveil Toloo, its new national satellite, in early February, according to a statement released Dec. 22 by Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi.     Toloo […]

[Satellite News 12-29-09] Analysts made a wide range of predictions this year as the satellite industry adjusted to rapidly developing technology and emerging markets in a slow-moving global economy.     […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-24-09] ViaSat named Tom Moore president of its newly acquired WildBlue subsidiary, ViaSat announced Dec. 23.     His duties at Wildblue will include oversight of the construction and […]

[Satellite TODAY 12-24-09] Satellite service provider TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) has reached a legal settlement with mobile company Sybase 365 over patent infringement lawsuits filed by TCS against Mobile 365 in […]