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EchoStar VIII,a direct broadcast satellite built for EchoStar by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L),was successfully launched on Aug.22.EchoStar VIII is located at the 110 degrees West longitude orbital position.It is designed to...

The third satellite owned and operated by Saudi Arabia will be launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in November.According to Prince Turki ibn Muhammed,who is in charge of the country ‘s...

The merger between Spanish satellite pay-TV platforms Via Digital and Sogecable moved a step nearer completion after the European Commission announced earlier this month that it was up to the...

Astrium is one of the main players in the European satellite manufacturing market. It has recently seen EADS take full control of the company. Astrium has undergone a widespread restructuring...

U.S. satellite radio operators are facing real funding problems right now. Interspace recently reported that XM Satellite Radio might need an extra $600 million to reach cashflow breakeven. It now...

Eutelsat has concluded an agreement with the InterSputnik International Organisation of Space Communications, under which InterSputnik will sell Eutelsat’s satellite capacity and satellite communications services. InterSputnik Director General Gennady Kudryavtsev...

Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 90 degreesE: Yamal 102 D Russia’s Radio Yunost (Youth Channel) has launched on 3530 MHz LHCP via APID 257 in clear MPEG-2. 83...

PanAmSat has launched a video-on-demand (VOD) and a digital store & forward (DSF) service that aims to reduce the costs involved in distributing video content. The two new services upgrade...

Canal Satelite Digital (CSD), the satellite pay-TV satellite platform of Spain’s Sogecable, gained less than 80,000 subscribers during the fiscal year ended June 2002. The poor performance of Canal Satelite...

D = Digital A = Analog 83 degreesE: Insat 2E & 3B D Jeevan TV has officially launched in clear MPEG-2 on 3645 MHz vertical, VPID 513, APID 660. This...