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Progress Freighter Lifts Off To Resupply Space Station A Progress freighter spaceship lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS), […]

JSOW Missile Engine Test Successful, Raytheon Announces The Joint Standoff Weapon Extended Range (JSOW-ER) missile moved one step closer to powered flight testing when Raytheon Co. [RTN] successfully conducted a […]

[Satellite Today – 2-8-08] Digital+, a Spanish direct-to-home platform, has launched its first high-definition (HD) channel on satellite, operators SES Astra announced Feb. 8.     Canal+ HD, is being broadcast […]

[Satellite Today – 2-8-08] Eutelsat has signed a deal with one of Germany’s biggest cable operators for a new digital platform in Germany, the satellite operator announced Feb. 7.     […]

[Satellite Today – 2-8-08] KVH Industries Inc. posted revenues of $19.7 million in its 2007 fourth quarter, an increase of 13 percent of the same period a year ago, the […]

[Satellite Today – 2-8-08] ViaSat Inc. has appointed Tom Moore, co-founder of WildBlue Communications, president of the ViaSat-1 Ka-band broadband satellite initiative, ViaSat announced Feb. 8.     In January, ViaSat […]

[Satellite Today – 2-8-08] EchoStar Corp. is among the companies that have agreed to invest $300 million into TerreStar Corp. to help fund the manufacturing and launch of TerreStar’s satellites, […]

[Satellite News – 2-8-08] SatLink Communications, which launched a new MCPC (multi channel per carrier) platform on Eutelsat‘s W2 satellite Feb. 4, is hoping to deal with generate stronger revenues […]

[Satellite Today – 2-7-08] Satellite’s prospects for playing a key role in the mobile TV market in Europe will be boosted by a high-profile demonstration at the Mobile World Congress […]

[Satellite Today – 2-7-08] Israel’s Aerophone Ltd. has developed a communications system that will allow airline passengers to make mobile telephone calls from aircraft using satellite links, the company announced […]

[Satellite Today – 2-7-08] Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) has been awarded a patent that protects technologies relating to the reduction of interference, the company announced Feb. 6.      U.S. Patent […]

[Satellite Today – 2-7-08] German pay-TV operator Premiere is fighting a major security breach in Germany, the company said Feb. 6.     The operator, which has around 3.5 million subscribers, […]

[Satellite Today – 2-7-08] The wholesale average selling price of GPS-enabled handsets will fall under $200 by 2010, according to a new report by ABI Research.     Currently, most handsets […]

[Satellite Today – 2-7-08] Iridium Satellite has upgraded the satellite phones used by Russian cosmonauts at the International Space Station, the company announced Feb. 7.     Russian authorities are replacing […]

Alan Baldwin President and CEO Peter Gaffney Executive Vice President for New Business and Technology [Satellite News – 2-7-08] Alan Baldwin has served as interim president and CEO of Integral […]

[Satellite Today – 2-7-08] Comcast Media Center, a business unit of Comcast Cable, has signed a contract with SES Americom to use 29 C-band transponders in the HD-Prime satellite network, […]

[Satellite Today – 2-7-08] Vislink Group has appointed Mather Al-Ali regional sales manager covering the Middle East and North Africa, the company announced Feb. 7.     Mather has more than […]

[Satellite Today – 2-7-08] Orbital Sciences Corp. has promoted Michael Larkin to executive vice president and general manager of the Space Systems Group, the company announced Feb. 7.     Larkin, […]

[Satellite Today – 2-6-08] Charlie Ergen, chairman  and CEO of Dish Network Corp. and EchoStar Corp., has replaced Carl Vogel as president of Dish Network, the company announced Feb. 5. […]

[Satellite Today – 2-6-08] BSkyB now has more than 8.8 million subscribers and more than 1.2 million broadband customers, the company announced Feb. 6. The U.K.-based pay-TV operator added more […]

[Satellite Today – 2-6-08] Spanish direct-to-home platform Digital+ added only 21,000 net subscribers in the fourth quarter to close 2007 with 2.1 million subscribers, the company announced Feb. 5.     […]

[Satellite Today – 2-6-08] Israel’s Starling Advanced Communications Ltd. and EMS Technologies Inc. signed an agreement to develop, manufacture and market a new satellite-based Ku-band airborne antenna system, Starling announced […]

[Satellite Today – 2-6-08] Hughes India has signed a contract to supply 10,000 broadband satellite terminals to Comat Technologies in India, Hughes announced Feb. 4.     The Hughes-Comat consortium won […]

[Satellite Today – 2-6-08] Bigelow Aerospace and Lockheed Martin are in talks to use Atlas 5 launch vehicles to supply crew and cargo to a Bigelow-built space complex, Bigelow announced […]

[Satellite Today – 2-6-08] The leaders of industry team that lobbied against international mobile telecommunications players seeking a global allocation of the C-band spectrum has been named Via Satellite magazine’s […]

[Satellite Today -2-5-08] Streambox Inc. promoted Brian Raine to vice president of business development, the company announced Feb. 5.     Raine, who has worked in high-growth technology companies for 12 […]

[Satellite Today -2-5-08] Indian direct-to-home operator Tata Sky plans to introduce a personal video recorder (PVR) by the end of the year, the company announced Feb. 5.         The […]

[Satellite Today -2-5-08] ViaSat Inc. reported record quarterly revenues of $152.1 million in its 2008 third quarter, an increase of 22 percent, the company announced Feb. 5.     The government […]

[Satellite Today -2-5-08] Digital pay-TV provider NDS has extended its relationship with Viasat Broadcasting for the provision of VideoGuard conditional access, NDS announced Feb. 5.     The two companies also […]

[Satellite Today -2-5-08] Colombia’s Avianca Airlines will be installing Iridium value-added service provider Avionica’s Iridium-based satLink communications module on its fleet, Iridium announced Feb. 5.     Avionica’s satLink Iridium system […]