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After nearly six years of operations, Worldspace Inc. became the fourth satellite operator to go public in 2005 and perform an initial public offering on the NASDAQ market in August....

African DTH operator Multichoice expects its DStv personal video recorder (PVR) to be available in retail stores in the fourth quarter, the company announced. The PVR decoder is the latest...

The Senate approved a $445 billion military spending bill Oct. 7 that cuts the funding request for several major space-related programs. Senate appropriators cut $7 billion in defense discretionary spending...

Echostar Communications Corp. and its Dish Network satellite TV service announced Oct. 4 an agreement to gain access to data provided by Nielsen Media Research. Nielsen, a provider of television...

Starsem announces Oct. 5 it received a contract from Globalstar LLC to launch a replacement spacecraft for the global satellite telephone operator. The contract call for Starsem to launch a...

SIRI Sirius Satellite Radio announced Oct. 4 it added more than 359,000 new net subscribers to its subscription satellite radio service in the third quarter 2005, bringing its total subscribers...

Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems received a contract from JSAT Corp. to build JCSAT-11, Lockheed Martin announced Oct. 3. The hybrid spacecraft will be based on Lockheed Martin’s A2100AX platform...

Inmarsat’s September filing with the U.S. government seeking authorization to provide mobile satellite services (MSS) in the 2-gigahertz (GHz) band has brought accusations that the satellite operator is looking to...

Telesat announced Oct. 3 that is began commercial service on its Anik F1R satellite. The satellite, which carries 32 Ku-band transponders, 24 C-band transponders and two navigation transponders, provides broadcasting...

Digitalglobe announced Oct. 4 that it is planning to launch a second next-generation imagery satellite that will be paired with the first Worldview satellite, being developed under a U.S. government...