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In the first Italian crackdown on digital TV piracy, police from Genoa have broken up an illegal ring that sold as many as 500,000 cloned digital decoders and smart cards...

Media company CLT-UFA doesn’t want to sell its shares in German general interest channel Vox to Rupert Murdoch. A CLT-UFA spokeswomen said that the company was unfazed by News Corp’s...

PanAmSat Corp.’s [SPOT] newest satellite, the PAS 8, last week became the company’s latest bird to malfunction due to a manufacturing flaw. Space Systems/Loral [LOR] engineers are trying to identify...

Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Atlas IIA rocket launched the U.S. Navy’s Ultra High Frequency Follow-on F9 satellite last Wednesday (10/21) into intermediate transfer orbit from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Fla. The...

EchoStar Signs Pact To Purchase Media4, Inks OpenTV Deal For Interactive Services EchoStar Communications Corp. [DISH] took two key steps last week to further its involvement in two major growth...

The tension will be high this Wednesday for Arianespace officials as they try to prove their next-generation Ariane 5 rocket is ready to become a workhorse in the France-based organization’s...

As pioneer Little low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite operator Orbcomm Global L.P. continues to develop its data messaging system, the Dulles, Va.-based company has decided to make some big changes at the...

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ADC Telecommunications Inc. [ADCT] is angling to exploit new business opportunities in Europe through the formation of a U.K.-based subsidiary that will concentrate its efforts on providing microcellular systems solutions...

Weekly Update: Last week we highlighted Orion Network Systems, PanAmSat, and Comsat as stocks that might react favorably to the dramatic increase in satellite usage because of the Princess Diana...