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Comsat Corp. [CQ] has won a three-year, $9 million contract to provide Internet access at 90 megabits per second – the equivalent of about 500 pages of text per second...

GlobeCast, the worldwide broadcasting arm of France Telecom [FTE], plans to launch a broadband service providing Internet access to the Indian subcontinent from the Europe*Star 1 satellite later this year....

Telia Mobile, the cellular carrier subsidiary of Sweden’s largest telecommunications company, has signed an agreement with Globalstar Northern Europe Ltd. that will extend Globalstar’s satellite-based telephone service throughout Sweden. Subscribers...

EMS Technologies Inc. [ELMG] which recently won a contract for more than 15,000 broadband, Ka-band, two-way VSAT terminals for service with SES/Astra’s 1H satellite, has subcontracted with Norsat International Inc....

Leo Mondale, 41, has been named president of Arianespace Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of the European launch company, and hopes his hard-learned lessons at Iridium LLC will help him in...

Motient Corp. [MTNT], formerly American Mobile Satellite Corp., has formed a new subsidiary, Motient Satellite Ventures LLC, and announced a $50 million investment from an investment group consisting of Columbia...

Shrewd Financing Move Provides Cash Until Next Spring It looks like Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] will be in business until at least the first quarter of next year. In a move...

While the insiders of the satellite industry talk the talk about the power of broadband services via satellite, equipment manufactures remain in a holding pattern. “The satellite broadband end user...

Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] can’t seem to catch a break. For years, the company struggled to solve a variety of accounting issues. Now, with those issues in the past, problems...

It was a good week for the two competing digial audio radio service (DARS) providers. Sirius Satellite Radio’s [SIRI] first satellite launch was successful and XM Satellite Radio Inc. [XMSR]...