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Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.’s [GILTF] subsidiary Spacenet Inc. has signed multiple agreements with global lottery services provider GTECH Corp. to install more than 10,000 Gilat Skystar Advantage broadband satellite communications...

Inforetech Wireless Technology Inc., a supplier of Global Positioning System technology for the golf industry, announced that Satellite Golf Inc. had acquired distribution rights for its products in Nevada and...

Space Imaging has signed up Raytheon Australia, a unit of U.S.-based Raytheon [RTN], as a master reseller of Space Imaging’s products and services, including imagery from its earth imaging satellite...

Lockheed Martin [LMT] and General Dynamics [GD] have added Boeing Satellite Systems to their team competing to develop the U.S. Navy’s next generation narrowband tactical satellite communications system, known as...

SES Astra, a unit of SES Global, signed a new long-term agreement for Kinderkanal (KI.KA) to use transponder capacity for analog broadcasts and prime time transmissions in Europe. KI.KA can...

C-COM Satellite Systems Inc., an Ottawa, Ontario-based supplier of satellite Internet technology, reported a 57 percent increase in fourth-quarter revenues from $484,146 in 2001 to $759,719 in 2002. Total revenues...

L-3 Communications’ [LLL] Communication Systems-East division has received a $52 million contract modification for the U.S. military’s secure global communications system via the advanced extremely high frequency communications security (COMSEC)...

The one-of-a-kind Rosetta satellite that was developed to become the first spacecraft to rendezvous with a comet will need to chase a different comet than originally planned. The change in...

Paul E. Jacobson, vice president of corporate communications for Starz Encore Group LLC, has been named deputy communications director for U.S. Senate Majority Leader Senator Bill Frist (R-Tenn.). Jacobson joined...

XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] officials expect the company’s subscriber numbers to top 1.1 million by the end of this year. The outlook is buoyed by General Motors [GM] offering XM...