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[Satellite Today 02-09-09] Raytheon Company is hoping to win a lucrative ground segment contract from The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The company, announced Feb. 6, that it had […]

[Satellite Today 02-09-09] Two key organizations in Asia have teamed up to resolve broadcasting frequency spectrum issues in the region. The regional body of the national frequency spectrum regulators in […]

[Satellite Today 02-09-09] Sky Italia added just over 320,000 subscribers in the year to the end of December. This was one of the highlights of parent company’s News Corp’s latest […]

[Satellite Today 02-09-09] Newtec CEO Serge Van Herck expects the company to perform strongly in the Middle East. The company, a satellite solutions vendor, could generate around 20 percent of […]

[Satellite Today 02-09-09] Premiere, the German pay-TV operator, has appointed Hans Seiler to its supervisory board, the company announced Feb. 5. Premiere, is the leading satellite pay-TV operator in Germany. […]

[Satellite Today 02-06-09] Avanti Communications signed contracts with companies to supply wholesale broadband services in Spain and France, Avanti announced Feb. 4.     Digisat Media S.A of Spain, a satellite […]

[Satellite Today 02-06-09] Gazprom Space Systems signed a contract for Thales Alenia Space to design, manufacture, test and deliver the Yamal-401 and Yamal-402 satellites, Thales announced Feb. 5. The deal […]

[Satellite Today 02-06-09] The Ciel-2 satellite has entered commercial service, Ciel Satellite Group announced Feb. 5.     The satellite, located at 129 degrees West, carries 32 Ku-band transponders and features […]

[Satellite Today 02-06-09] GeoEye Inc. initiated commercial operations for the GeoEye-1 Earth-imaging satellite and submitted imagery from the satellite to the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) for certification, GeoEye announced […]

[Satellite Today 02-06-09] NDS, a supplier of conditional access and middleware solutions to satellite pay-TV operators, is now a fully private company, NDS announced Feb. 5.     Under the new […]

[Satellite Today 02-06-09] Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) Vice President, Space Systems, J.P. Stevens told Satellite Today, that he does not believe that a change in the ruling party of the […]

[Satellite Today 04-05-09] Arabsat signed commercial deals with Thales Alenia Space, Astrium and Arianespace to manufacture and launch two new satellites, Arabsat 5C and Arabsat 6B, Arabsat announced Feb. 4. […]

[Satellite Today 04-05-09] Japan’s Broadcasting Satellite System Corp. (B-SAT) selected Integral Systems to deliver a turnkey satellite control system for the BSAT-3b and BSAT-3c satellites, Integral Systems announced Feb. 4. […]

[Satellite Today 04-05-09] Boeing shipped the second Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite, WGS-2, from its El Segundo, Calif., facility to Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida, where it will be […]

[Satellite Today 02-05-09] The RapidEye constellation is ready to begin operations, RapidEye AG announced Feb. 4.     The constellation was launched in August, and prime contractor MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates […]

[Satellite Today 04-05-09] SingTel’s vice president of satellite, Titus Yong, told Satellite Today that the operator, one of the biggest telcos in the region, sees satellite as a vital component […]

[Satellite Today 02-04-09] Arianespace signed a contract with Hispasat to launch the Hispasat 1E satellite, Arianespace announced Feb. 3.     The satellite will be built by Space Systems/Loral using an […]

[Satellite Today 02-04-09] Telecommunications Consultants India selected Gilat Satellite Networks for a contract to provide Nepal Telecom with a SkyEdge VSAT broadband satellite communications network covering hundreds of sites, Gilat […]

[Satellite Today 02-04-09] AsiaSat signed a capacity deal with France 24 to distribute the international news channel throughout the Asia-Pacific region using AsiaSat 2’s C-band platform at SatLink Communications, AsiaSat […]

[Satellite Today 02-04-09] Iran launched Omid, its first domestically made satellite, Feb. 2, Iranian state radio reported.     The satellite, designated to monitor natural disasters and earthquakes, was taken into […]

[Satellite Today 02-04-09] Thaicom signed a deal with Real Metro Co. to distribute seven channels across Thailand, the company announced Feb. 3. The channels are operated and run by Real […]

[Satellite Today 02-04-09] Xicom Technology unveiled a new line of lightweight high-power traveling wave tube amplifiers for domestic and international satellite communications, the company announced Feb. 3. The amplifiers operate […]

[Satellite Today 02-04-09] Integral Systems reported increases in revenue and gross profit despite unusually high legal and auditing costs in its first quarter 2009 financial report released Feb. 3.      […]

[Satellite Today 02-04-09] Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS) sold and installed its first Iridium-based compliant Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) system to a French flag ship, CLS announced Feb. 3. […]

[Satellite Today 02-03-09] SkyDelta unveiled a new satellite Internet platform based on DVB-S2 technology from Efficient Channel Coding, SkyDelta announced Feb. 2.     Dubai-based Sky Delta intends to provide a […]

[Satellite Today 02-03-09] Eutelsat Communications and partners Numeo and Sat2Way launched a broadband access service in France, Eutelsat announced Feb. 2.     The initiative is consistent with action one of […]

[Satellite Today 02-03-09] Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement retained an Inmarsat FleetBroadband system from Stratos Global to manage merchant vessel Marianne Schulte’s daily operations at sea, Stratos announced Feb. 2.     The […]

[Satellite Today 02-03-09] The board of directors at Gateway Broadcast Services, which runs the GTV DTH service in sub-Saharan Africa, approved a plan to liquidate the company, Gateway announced Jan. […]

[Satellite Today 02-03-09] SES New Skies signed a capacity deal with Caprock Communications, the company announced Feb. 2.     CapRock Communications, a provider of enterprise satellite communications to oil, mining, […]

[Satellite Today 02-03-09] In its current form, the U.S. House of Representative‘s version of President Obama’s nearly $6 billion proposed Broadband Stimulus Bill mentions satellite applications only twice in its […]