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PanAmSat Corporation reported its third quarter and nine months results ended September 30, 2000 – with a 3Q downturn occurring due to a one-off payment incurred by a venture in...

The launch of the first satellite for the UAE-based Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Company, called Thuraya-1, is scheduled for tomorrow morning (October 19). The satellite will be launched by Sea Launch...

Caltiger.com, a leading ISP in India, will use Loral CyberStar’s high-speed, satellite-based WorldCast Premier Internet access service to speed up Internet content delivery to its end users. The contract will...

Pro Sieben intends to relaunch its promotion service for the six channel audio system Dolby Digital 5.1, in which the German general interest channel has been airing selected movies since...

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 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...

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 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 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 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,...