Transponder Monitor
Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: D – Digital A – Analogue E: 80 degreesE: Express-6A D – Three Russian radio stations have started...
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Italian pay-TV operator Stream has appointed Giancarlo Guastini as its new director general, a post previously occupied by Giovanni Minoli. Guastini, who was previously in charge of fiction at Mediaset...
Three Senior Executives Promoted As HSC Prepares For Purchase By Boeing
Hughes Space and Communications Co. [GMH] named three senior executives to new positions as The Boeing Co. [BA] completed the purchase of the satellite manufacturing operations for $3.75 billion in...
Eutelsat Arranges $484.33 Million Credit Line
Eutelsat has arranged a $484.33 million multicurrency, revolving credit facility to a establish more flexible line of credit in anticipation of its privatization next July “and its likely IPO within...
Orbital Launches NASA's HETE 2 Bird
Launch managers at Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] were all smiles Oct. 9 when its Pegasus rocket successfully launched NASA’s High Energy Transient Explorer 2 (HETE 2) satellite into its targeted...
InSight Telecommunications To Sell Ku-band Capacity On GE 2
InSight Telecommunications Corp. of Boston has agreed to sell, schedule and service the 24 Ku-band transponders on the GE 2 satellite that previously was used by Primestar. The agreement for...
StarBand Chooses Commtouch Software To Provide Messaging To Subscribers
StarBand Communications Inc., formerly Gilat-To-Home, which is building a DBS Internet service, will supply its users with e-mail and messaging through and agreement with Commtouch Software Ltd. [CTCH] of Mountain...
Orbital Sciences to Sell Fairchild Defense Electronics For $100 Million
Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] said that it has agreed to sell its Fairchild Defense electronics business, which supplies avionics for military aircraft, to a U.S. subsidiary of Smiths Industries plc,...
NOAA Launches Its Newest Polar-Orbiting Satellite
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) successfully launched its newest polar-orbiting weather satellite Sept. 21 from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Titan 2 rocket. NOAA L is the...
Eutelsat Opens Brazilian Subsidiary, Its First In Latin America
Eutelsat, the other pan-European satellite operator, has responded to the expansion of Societe Europeenne des Satellites (SES) into the South American market, by opening its first Latin American subsidiary, Eutelsat...