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The ITU did its best to please every last delegate at its World Radiocommunication Conference, writes Chris Bulloch The International Telecommunication Union held its first-ever World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) outside...

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 145 degreesE: Gorizont-21 & 33 D – The last of the Gorizont...

German public broadcaster ARD is to extend the interactive content on its free-to-air digital package. The Euro 2000 football competition will allow the approximate 70,000 households equipped with OpenTV digital...

British TV personality Noel Edmonds has revealed plans to launch a series of new channels kicking of with a business-to-business channel Biz4BizTV.com‚ that will launch in about a year. Edmonds...

Italian public broadcaster RAI has established a holding company that will combine its Internet and satellite TV units (Interspace 694). Announcing the initiative on May 8, RAI president Roberto Zaccaria...

Spot Image Corp., the U.S. subsidiary of Spot Image system, has licensed the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), formerly the Defense Mapping Agency, to release Spot Image’s older images...

A combined “national team” has been established by three major satellite manufacturers–the Lockheed Martin Space Systems subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT], the Hughes Space and Communications subsidiary of Hughes...

High-resolution satellite imagery could pose a realistic threat to U.S. national security. Industry companies currently commercializing these pixels claim no long-term adverse effects will occur. “After seven months of operations,...

Arianespace’s sales and net income for 1999 slipped slightly from 1998 levels, the France-led launch organization reported at its annual meeting May 30. Sales for 1999 fell to about $908.5...

Ames Research Center–Information technology development, flight research, experimental aircraft development, early aircraft design; Dryden Flight Research Center–X-plane flight tests, early Space Shuttle tests, early Space Shuttle landings, current X-craft flight...