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Echostar Communications Corp. announced earlier this week it added NFL Network as part of the America’s Top 120 for its Dish Network direct-to-home satellite television service. NFL Network provides around-the-clock...

Boeing announced Sept. 13 that Howard Chambers was named vice president and general manager of Space And Intelligence Systems (S&IS), an operating division of Integrated Defense Systems. Chambers is responsible...

Orbimage Holdings Inc. agreed to acquire the assets of Space Imaging LLC, Orbimage announced Sept. 16. Dulles, Va.-based Orbimage, which operates the Orbview-3 high-resolution imagery satellite, will pay about $58.5...

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) appointed Ali Asghar vice president of corporate development. Asghar joins MSV from America Online where he led the company’s alternative broadband development. Previously, Asghar was with...

With a promise to boost Canadian content, Canadian Satellite Radio and Sirius Canada, the Canadian satellite partners of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio, respectively, had their licenses to...

Sprint announced Sept. 13 that its wireless customers will be able to listen to Sirius Satellite Radio programming via their mobile phones. The offer delivers 20 commercial-free music channels, plus...

The future for Internet protocol television (IPTV) services distributed by telecommunications service providers received a boost earlier this month when Gov. Rick Perry of Texas signed into law a bill...

The U.S. Air Force is completing the worldwide deployment of more than 280 tactical meteorological data collection systems that provide mission-critical weather data to war planners and decision makers via...

With the uncertain nature of the Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) market, a concern operators in that segment will not have to worry about is a shortage of spectrum, according to...

SES Astra and Dutch service provider Canaldigital announced an agreement for the provision of broadband Internet services via the Astra satellite system. Canaldigital, which has than 600,000 homes subscribers to...