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Herb Satterlee, the former CEO and chairman of Digitalglobe, has been named CEO of Novariant, which supplies GPS-based positioning products for industrial users, Novariant announced Feb. 14. “It is an […]

Global Marine Networks LLC unveiled an automatic vessel tracking service that uses the Iridium satellite system to transmit location reports from ship to shore, Iridium announced Feb. 14. The XGate […]

Euronews is available to mobile phone users in Spain after being added to the 3G television service of Amena, Euronews announced. Euronews‚ Live TV service also is available in Austria, […]

Intelsat has been granted rights by the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency to operate the Intelsat Americas-8 (IA-8) satellite in the Brazilian market, the company announced Feb. 15. IA-8, launched in […]

Emercomsat, a civil protection satellite network built by Telespazio, began operations with the opening of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Telespazio announced. The system provides secure broadband communications and […]

EMS Satcom appointed Peter Zalizniak account manager of military, government and maritime sales, the company announced Feb. 14. Zalizniak will focus on the company’s government and military businesses, particularly on […]

Michael Neuman resigned as president and COO of Echostar Communications Corp. effective Feb. 13, the company said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Vice Chairman Carl […]

Jean-Yves Le Gall, CEO of Arianespace, and Anatoly Perminov, director general of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, signed the supply contract Feb. 14 for the first four Soyuz vehicles that […]

BTV+ received a multiyear contract valued at more than $40 million to supply and operate a digital signage network that will serve more than 3,600 sporting and retail locations, BTV+ […]

Bellsouth extended its marketing alliance with DirecTV Inc. another five years and also created a new sales channel, Bellsouth announced Feb. 14. Under the marketing agreement, Bellsouth is able to […]

German pay-TV operator Premiere ended 2005 with nearly 3.6 million subscribers, up nearly 10 percent compared to the 3.3 million subscribers reported at the end of 2004. The operator also […]

Arabsat has teamed up with Cetel Germany, a provider of teleport and satellite services, to launch a satellite broadband initiative in the Middle East and Africa. The new service, which […]

Sea Launch delayed the Feb. 12 launch of a direct broadcast satellite for Echostar Communications Corp. for undisclosed reasons. This was the second launch delay for Echostar 10, which originally […]

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) released a solicitation for proposals to provide commercial satellite communications solutions to the U.S. government, the agency announced Feb. 10. The GSA will award […]

Shareholders of New Skies Satellites Holdings Ltd. approved the acquisition of the company by SES Holdings Ltd., New Skies announced Feb. 10. Antitrust reviews in the United States and Germany […]

Radyne Corp. reported record sales for the year and the fourth quarter ending December 31, 2005 of $103.3 million and $36.8 million respectively. Sales for the full year of 2005 […]

Subaru of America will offer both U.S.-based satellite radio services as options in some of its 2007 models, the companies announced Feb. 9. Subaru will offer XM Satellite Radio on […]

DirecTV Group Inc. earned $336 million in 2005 as revenues improved 16 percent to 13.2 billion, the company reported Feb. 8. In 2004, DirecTV lost $1.9 billion on revenues $11.3 […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) has begun working with several large multinational businesses to integrate satellite data into the companies’ corporate sustainable development (CSD) efforts, ESA announced. The practice of […]

From Feb. 6-9 in Washington, D.C., The SATELLITE 2006 Conference and Exhibition played host to more than 7,400 attendees and 245 exhibiting companies. Held annually by Via Satellite magazine and […]

XM Satellite Radio signed an three-year, $55 million agreement to carry content provided by Oprah Winfrey’s radio company, XM announced Feb. 9. Under the agreement with Harpo Radio Inc., XM […]

IMS Research estimates that by the end of 2005, more than 2.6 million households in Europe were using a digital video recorder (DVR). By 2010, this market is forecast to […]

Telenor Satellite Services and Addvalue Technologies announced that the two companies have entered into a strategic business agreement to provide satellite communications services for the terrestrial, maritime and aeronautical markets. […]

Alcatel Alenia Space will provide the Defense User Ground Segment for the Cosmo-Skymed earth observation program to the French Ministry of Defense, Alcatel announced. The 32 million Euro ($38.3 million) […]

Eutelsat subsidiary Skylogic Italia won a contract to provide satellite broadband access to public administrators in Tuscany, Italy. Under the contract awarded by the region of Tuscany, Skylogic will provide […]

BSkyB, the U.K. satellite pay-TV operator, has restructured some key management roles as it targets 10 million DTH customers in 2010. The new roles have been created as Sky looks […]

NTU, the Ukrainian public broadcaster, has become a shareholder in EuroNews. It has become the 20th shareholder of EuroNews with its acquisition of 1 percent of share capital in SECEMIE […]

Globecomm Systems Inc., a global provider of end-to-end satellite-based communications solutions, announced the company’s fiscal 2006 second quarter increased 2.3 percent to a record $29.9 million, compared to $29.2 million […]

International Datacasting Corp. announced yesterday at the SATELLITE 2006 Conference and Exhibition in Washington, D.C., that ProfLine B.V., their wholly owned subsidiary and base of operations in Europe, received a […]

Alcatel Alenia Space will provide the Defense User Ground Segment for the Cosmo-Skymed earth observation program to the French Ministry of Defense, Alcatel announced. The 32 million Euro ($38.3 million) […]