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The launch of a pair of NASA spacecraft has been delayed until at least February due to an ongoing Boeing strike and launch range maintenance, NASA announced. NASA’s Cloudsat and […]

France Telecom submitted a proposal to sell its France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications unit to private equity firm Apax, according to the Web site of the Federal Cartel Office, which […]

As we approach the end of 2005, satellite pay-TV operators are faced with numerous challenges in their bid to improve subscriber numbers and average revenue per user (ARPU) figures, and […]

Sometimes, innovative applications are those that just take readily available information and package it in a way that serves a community of users. Such is the case of DiveSpots.com, a […]

Intelsat Ltd. and APT Satelite Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of APT Satellite Holdings Ltd., announced Dec. 2 a strategic cooperation agreement to work together using their combined satellite fleets. The […]

With its roots firmly planted in the broadcast industry, satellites are perfectly suited for offering enterprise distance learning applications that allow the training of employees at various sites simultaneously. And […]

Now that it has emerged from bankruptcy, Loral Space & Communications can focus on growing the company, with a return to the North American services market one of the possible […]

Penny Glover, managing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa for EMS Technologies Inc.’s Satellite Networks Division, and her diving partner were reported missing following a Nov. 21 deep-sea dive […]

Nordic Satellite AB (NSAB) will change its name to SES Sirius AB, citing that it no longer views itself as serving just the Nordic region. “Our organization has undergone great […]

Sirius Satellite Radio announced Dec. 1 that Mazda is offering Sirius receivers as a port-installed option in a variety of 2006 model year vehicles, including the Mazda 3, Mazda 6, […]

Nera Satcom received type approval from Inmarsat for the commercial launch of the new Nera Worldpro 1000 mobile broadband satellite terminal. The device, which weighs less than a kilogram, is […]

Intelsat Ltd. and APT Satellite Co. Ltd., a subsidiary of APT Satellite Holdings Ltd., entered into a strategic cooperation agreement to market each other’s satellite capacity and ground resources and […]

SDN Global earlier this week announced the hiring of Joseph Loftis as the company’s director of operations. Loftis will oversee the daily operations of the SDN Global network, including all […]

Protostar, which plans to provide direct-to-home satellite television services on a wholesale basis to the Asia-Pacific region, announced Dec. 1 that Steven Dorfman joined the company’s board of directors. Dorfman […]

DirecTV announced that its latest digital video recorder, DirecTV Plus, is available at retail locations nationwide. The recorder can store up to 100 hours of DirecTV programming, as well as […]

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) received a patent from European Patent Office for ancillary terrestrial component (ATC) technology that will be used in the formation of a hybrid satellite/wireless communications network, […]

Vision Technologies Electronics Inc. (VTEE), completed its acquisition of iDirect Technologies Dec. 1, iDirect announced. VTEE, a subsidiary of Vision Technologies Systems Inc., paid $165 million in cash for iDirect. […]

India’s Union Cabinet approved funding for the development and launch of the GSAT-6/Insat-4E satellite, the government announced Dec. 1. The spacecraft, which will be built by the Indian Space Research […]

The launch of a pair of NASA satellites has been delayed until at least February due to an ongoing Boeing strike and launch range maintenance, NASA announced. NASA’s Cloudsat and […]

Sirius Canada began broadcasting its 100-station satellite radio service Dec. 1, the company announced. Sirius Canada set the subscription price at $14.99 a month and $7.99 for each additional receiver […]

Echostar Communications Corp. introduced Nov. 30 Michael Dugan as the company’s chief technical officer. Dugan, the chief architect of the technological foundation upon which the Dish Network direct-to-home satellite television […]

Canada’s Department of National Defence deployed MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd.‘s (MDA) satellite surveillance and intelligence information solution for the Brigade Training Event 2005, MDA announced Nov. 30. The exercise […]

Kazakhstan Prime Minister Danial Akhmetov said the country, which plans to launch its first satellite, Kazsat, before the end of 2005, expects to launch its second satellite within two years. […]

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has scheduled the launch of the Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) for Jan. 19 aboard a H-2A launch vehicle. The rocket will be launched […]

France Telecom submitted a proposal to sell its France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications unit to private equity firm Apax, according to the Web site of the Federal Cartel Office, which […]

Eutelsat will issue more than 71 million new shares of stock through its initial public offering (IPO), raising about 860 million euros ($1 billion). Eutelsat set the price of its […]

People CSR Appoints Senior VP, Marketing And Sales Canadian Satellite Radio (CSR) announced that Colin Bettam was appointed senior vice president of marketing and sales. Bettam will be responsible for […]

By Owen D. Kurtin Last year, we predicted that 2004 might go down in history as the year that the satellite business started to rationalize itself, turned the corner of […]

By James Careless The satellite offices of the major news conglomerates are on the front line for regional, live news coverage that gets global exposure. Today, however, advanced equipment and […]

By Jason Bates As the makeup of the global satellite operators comes into focus, industry attention is shifting toward the regional operators. Industry executives and customers want to know which […]