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IP ACTION STATIONS FOR XANTIC

Xantic, formerly Station 12 and SpecTec – which is owned by KPN of the Netherlands (65 per cent) and Australia’s Telstra (35 per cent) – has signed an agreement with...

TRANSPONDER MONITOR

Interspace’s in Depth Study of European Satellite Activity, Compiled by Mike Fallon D – Digital A – Analogue 68.5 degrees E PAS-4 & 7 D: The Asian version of Zee...

NEWS BYTES

Money Channel CEO Tony Hobman says he wants to dispel the “daft” rumours that his service is about to seek an emergency rights issue from shareholders. Hobman, in a March...

EUTELSAT'S TRANSITION BOARD TAKES SHAPE

Eutelsat elected its supervisory 15-person board on March 21 for an initial three year term. Its four-person management directorate will be elected in May. The election was not without its...

SKYBRIDGE TURNS INSIDE-OUT

Two weeks ago Interspace reported that Alcatel affiliate SkyBridge had denounced reports that it was pla nning to abandon – or at least postpone – the launch of its planned...

GENERALI SOUNDS A WARNING

Generali Global’s biennial space insurance conference, held recently in Rome, tended to be a repeat of the wake-up call of two years ago in Florence. CEO Benito Pagnanelli said that...

TELPRESS AWARDS BROADBAND DEAL

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd’s subsidiary Gilat Europe has been awarded a deal to provide a broadband satellite communications network of up to 2,000 sites by Telpress SRL. Rome-based Telpress is...

NASA bins two reusable launchers

Satellite operators’ hopes of seeing a drastic drop in space launch costs – up to 90 per cent was the objective – through the introduction of Reusable Launch Vehicles (RLVs)...