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Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch’s Bulgarian TV (BTV) the first-ever private nationwide TV broadcaster in the country, will go on air June 1, initially for just two hours a day. The...

AssureSat Inc., a company established to provide satellites in orbit to step in when there is a launch failure or a satellite already in service fails, has awarded Space Systems/Loral...

GOES L, the fourth in the current generation of advanced, geostationary weather satellites, was launched May 3 aboard an Atlas 2A rocket. The launch was delayed about one year because...

In a move that will boost the GPS industry and worldwide confidence in the U.S. system at a critical time, President Clinton announced May 1 that he ordered an end...

The Japanese Ministry of Transport and the Japanese Meteorological Agency have begun their procurement of a second satellite in their new series of MTSat combined air traffic control and weather...

Raytheon Co. [RTNA] has won a contract to provide the Advanced Meteorological Imager for Japan’s MTSat 1R, a combined weather and air traffic control satellite for the Japanese Ministry of...

Business development executives seeking profits from the Internet-via-satellite marketplace need to focus on e-commerce opportunities in the right geographic locations if projections are accurate according to a new study. Currently,...

Air travel soon will become more pleasurable. At least that is the hope of The Boeing Co. [BA] officials who, on April 27, unveiled a new business segment. Called Connexion...

In the last issue of Mobile Satellite News, Dennis Billard, vice president at Telesat Canada was quoted as citing market estimations for broadband services to reach $37 billion in revenues...

Global VSAT Forum 2000: LATIN AMERICA will be this year’s only worldwide VSAT industry meeting devoted to examination of the VSAT industry’s growth and opportunities in Latin America. The meeting...