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A week after the unveiling of the proposed merger of Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio, consensus about its prospects and possibilities remained muddled as federal officials prepare to...

Alcatel Alenia Space CEO Pascale Sourisse believes the market for satellites will be very strong throughout the next few years and hoped the company could maintain a strong position. According...

Boeing Co. is designing a smaller, more versatile spacecraft platform intended to appeal to the commercial and military markets, company spokeswoman Diana Ball confirmed. The new offering, first reported by...

[2/19/07 edition] Iridium Satellite will spend more than $2 billion to build and deploy its second-generation satellite constellation, dubbed Iridium Next, the company announced Feb. 15. Plans call for the...

[2/19/07 edition] SES Global has agreed to repurchase 103.1 million shares of SES from GE in a transaction valued at 1.2 billion euros ($1.6 billion), SES announced Feb. 14. In...

What was supposed to be a banner start to 2007 has turned into somewhat of a challenge for SES New Skies CEO Rob Bednarek. The company’s NSS-8 satellite was destroyed...

XM Satellite Radio XM Satellite Radio agreed to sell its XM-4 satellite to a trust owned by Satellite Leasing LLC and will lease back capacity aboard the spacecraft, XM said...

[2/19/07 edition] Eutelsat CEO Giuliano Berretta believes 2007 will prove to be a good year for the Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) sector, with continued strong performance fueled by possible regional...

DirecTV Group Inc. DirecTV Group Inc. posted a profit of $1.4 billion on revenues of $14.8 billion, the company announced Feb. 7. In 2005, DirecTV attributed the revenue gains to...

Despite initially losing the key soccer (Bundesliga) rights in Germany, pay-TV operator Premiere has bounced back in style, ending 2006 with a subscription base totalling just shy of 3,410,000 million....