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In a significant high-definition (HD) TV deal, Rainbow Media Holdings LLC has signed a deal with Sky HD to launch a number of Voom HD programming brands in Korea. The […]

Globalstar applied for authority from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to use its entire assigned Mobile Satellite Services spectrum for Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) services in the United States. […]

Hughes Communications Inc. rounded out its board with the appointment of three executives, the company announced June 22. Stephen Clark, a venture partner with Intersouth Partners; Gene Gabbard, a private […]

CanalSat CEO Guy Lafarge believes there will be a strong demand for high-definition (HD) services in France. The direct-to-home operator likely will be one of the leaders in bringing HD […]

Satelinx signed a contract to provide 2,500 personal tracking units to Algeria’s S.A.R.L Algeria Online, Satelinx announced June 22. The order for the PT 300 units is valued at more […]

Century 21 Real Estate LLC introduce a satellite mapping function to its Web site via its relationship with Microsoft Virtual Earth and Microsoft Map Point, Century 21 announced June 22. […]

Arianespace and CNES, the French Space Agency, awarded a contract to Alcatel Alenia Space to supply the switching and power feeder unit for the safety systems for Soyuz-Fregat rockets, Alcatel […]

A Boeing Delta 2 launch vehicle carried a pair of experimental payload into orbit June 21 for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), U.S. Air Force and U.S. […]

Jean-Jacques Dordain will continue to serve as director general of the European Space Agency (ESA) for another four years, the agency announced June 22. Dordain joined ESA in 1986 and […]

NDS will provide software for set-top boxes that Dutch satellite pay-TV operator Canaldigitaal will use for its expansion into Belgium, Canaldigitaal announced. Canaldigitaal will begin distributing new STBs incorporating NDS’s […]

Telecommunications Systems Inc. extended its satellite coverage over several Asia Pacific region countries, the company announced June 21. Telecommunications’ Swiftlink Global Satellite Service, launched in August 2005, provides high-speed communications […]

Globalstar Inc. ended a contract with Spectrum Signal Processing Inc. for asset tracking services support, Spectrum announced June 21. Under the agreement, Spectrum supplied hardware, software and engineering services for […]

PCI Geomatics received certification for its flagship software to be used with India’s Cartosat-1 satellite, PCI announced June 21. The satellite will use the Geomatica software to process stereo data […]

Members of SPATEA (Spar Professional and Allied Technical Employee’s Association) employed at MDA Space Missions are preparing to strike , MacDonald Dettwiler announced June 21. The employees have been working […]

ViaSat Inc. acquired Enerdyne Technologies Inc., a provider of video data link equipment and digital video systems primarily for unmanned aerial vehicles, ViaSat announced June 21. The acquisition will expand […]

Inmarsat, which took its Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service global by expanding the service into North and South America in May, is looking to make a different kind of […]

DirecTV Inc. will provide a new luxury programming and service package called DirecTV Titanium, the company announced June 20. The package, priced at $7,500 per year, includes unlimited access to […]

The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Stereo Airfield Collection program awarded Geoeye a $3.7 million contract to collect imagery of 365 airfields and produce mapping databases, Geoeye announced June 21. […]

Panamsat signed a deal with TVBI Co. Ltd. June 19 to distribute Chinese-language programming throughout the Asia Pacific region, the United States and Europe. The signal uplink from Hong Kong […]

Hughes Network Systems LLC introduced the HX System, a new broadband satellite platform, Hughes announced June 20. The system is intended to offer a cost-effective solution for smaller networks that […]

Boeing announced June 21 that the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES-N) satellite has reached its orbital slot and now is controlled by NASA. The satellite has been renamed GOES-13 and […]

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. began production June 20 of a full-scale trial unit of the upper and lower domes of the fuel tanks for the H-2B rocket, Japan’s next- generation […]

Loral Skynet partnered with Go2Call to provide Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services to Asia’s telecommunications and ISP/Broadband carriers, businesses and government organizations. The partnership will combine Skynet’s Telstar satellite […]

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a subsidiary of Nortel Government Solutions a contract with an estimated value of $3 million for systems engineering and software development […]

Ondas Media named Jon Filipek senior vice president for regulatory affairs and appointed a specialist consultancy, Access Partnership, to manage the day-to-day interface with national regulatory and licensing authorities across […]

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved Intelsat Ltd.‘s acquisition of Panamsat Holding Corp., and Intelsat expects to close the deal July 3, the company announced. “The transaction will be […]

Arianespace will launch Vietnam’s first telecommunications satellite in the first half of 2008, Arianespace announced June 20 Vinasat-1, being built by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems for Vietnam Posts and […]

Hughes Network Systems LLC received a contract from BP Corp. North America Inc. to provide Hughesnet managed network services to connect BP’s retail locations with headquarters. The four-year contract includes […]

SES Astra Techcom and partner Hitec Luxembourg will provide a pair telemetry, tracking and control antenna systems for Europe’s global satellite navigation system, Galileo, SES announced June 19. Under the […]

Boeing Co. completed of a series of tests demonstrating the interoperability of the Transformational Satellite Communications (TSAT) Next Generation Processor Router with a government reference ground terminal, Boeing announced June […]