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PanAmSat Corp. [SPOT] said Paraguayan Internet service provider (ISP) Planet Internet tripled its leased capacity aboard PanAmSat’s PAS 3 satellite over the Atlantic Ocean Region. The additional bandwidth will allow...

In a Feb. 24 speech before the National Association of Broadcasters‘ State Leadership Conference, FCC Chairman Reed Hundt reiterated previous calls for emerg ing satellite and terrestrial programming providers–including digital...

Israel-based Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [GILTF] announced it will supply 1,600 VSAT terminals for use in Brazil’s national lottery. The contract was awarded by Racimec Informatica Brasilia SA, a subsidiary...

Next week, Washington law firm Reed, Smith, Shaw & McClay will hold a one-and-a-half-day symposium on the legal, business and technical implications of orbital debris. The symposium will cover risk-minimization...

Middletown, R.I.-based KVH Inc. [KVHI] released last month a lighter, cheaper maritime phone designed for Inmarsat’s third-generation satellites. KVH’s system, Inmarsat Tracphone, is derived from similar hardware it builds for...

Abstracts for papers to be submitted to the International Astronautical Federation’s upcoming IAF Congress, in Turin, Italy, this October, are due to the organization by March 1. The IAF is...

ICO Global Communications Ltd., the London-based global mobile satellite consortium, announced a preliminary service distribution agreement with its Japanese investor syndicate. The group, Satellite Phone Japan Ltd., will be ICO’s...

Japan Satellite Systems Inc. selected Lockheed Martin Corp.’s [LMT] Atlas 2AS rocket to launch its upcoming JCSat 6 satellite, from Cape Canaveral in mid-1998. JCSat 6 will be a Hughes...

Decades-old shortwave radio is giving way to satellite technology when it comes to the distribution of the U.S. government’s Voice of America (VOA) service, officials of the federal agency said...

SPOT Image Corp. signed a licensing agreement with Radarsat International (RSI) for Radarsat to distribute and market in the United States remote sensing imagery from the Radarsat satellite. British Columbia-based...