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BSkyB Teams Up With Vodafone
U.K. satellite pay-TV operator BSkyB has teamed up with Vodafone to launch Sky Mobile TV to deliver broadcast video services to Vodafone mobile phone customers. There will be two Sky […]
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SUIRG Launches Interference Tracking Matrix Database
The Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group (SUIRG) launched an online, interactive database to consolidate and tracks incidents of satellite radio frequency interference within the geostationary arc, the organization announced. The […]
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Delphi Delivers Modem For Asset Tracking
Delphi Corp. delivered the first shipment of the new DS300 satellite transceiver modem to Stellar Satellite Communications, Delphi announced Nov.2. The modem, aimed at the asset-tracking market, delivers data via […]
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Harris Unveils New Function for Satellite Command and Control Product
Harris Corp. introduced a new XTCE database converter for the company’s OS/Comet satellite command and control suite of products. The new database allows users to translate databases in XTCE to […]
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Spacedev Closes $2.5 Million Financing Round
Spacedev Inc. closed the sale of $2.5 million of securities to Laurus Master Fund Ltd., the company announced Nov. 2. The proceeds from the sale will provide working capital, including […]
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Executive Q&A: Thuraya CEO Prepares Company For Busy 2006
Since being founded by a consortium of national telecommunications operators in 1997, Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Co. has built itself into a $1 billion regional mobile satellite telecommunications satellite system. Nearly […]
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Spotlight: Saving Wetlands With Satellite Imagery
The European Space Agency (ESA) is leading an initiative to help preserve the Earth’s wetlands using satellite-based observation data. Global wetlands, which sustain the most biologically diverse ecosystems around the […]
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Mitsubishi Electric Captures SCC’s Superbird-7 Contract
No one is ready to call Space Communication Corp.‘s (SCC) awarding of the Superbird-7 contract to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Melco) the beginning of a major shift in the satellite manufacturing […]
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Machinist Strike Threatens To Delay At Least Three Boeing Launches
Boeing Co.‘s government launch services business faces short-term and potentially long-term delays as the company’s union machinists went on strike Nov. 3. The strike could push back the three remaining […]
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Venezuela Buys Satellite From China
Venezuela signed an agreement Nov. 1 to buy a satellite from China, the Venezuelan Ministry of Science and Technology announced. The Simon Bolivar Satellite will provide telecommunications services such as […]
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Radarsat-1 Marks 10 Years Of Operations
The Canadian Space Agency‘s Radarsat-1 satellite celebrated its 10th anniversary Nov. 4. The satellite, launched Nov. 4, 1995 and expected to operate only five years, has flown nearly 2.4 million […]
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MSV Appoints Donald Stout To Lead Patent Management Strategy
Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) announced Nov. 3 that it had reached an agreement with Donald Stout to lead MSV’s patent licensing and enforcement efforts. Stout brings to MSV an extensive […]
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Digitalglobe, Valtus To Offer Satellite Imagery On Web
Digitalglobe and Valtus Imagery Services, a division of Northwest Geomatics Ltd., entered into a three-year data distribution partnership to offer Digitalglobe’s high-resolution commercial satellite imagery to Valtus customers. Valtus customers […]
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Sirius Canada Announces Service Price, General Program Offerings
Sirius Satellite Radio announced Nov. 3 its Canadian affiliate, Sirius Canada, will offer 100 channels of programming for Cdn. $14.99 ($12.66) per month when it begins broadcasting in December. Sirius […]
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Boeing Becomes Third GOES-R Contract Recipient
A Boeing-led team received a $10 million, six-month contract to define a next-generation weather satellite for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boeing announced Nov. 3. The Program […]
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Consumer Broadband Terminals, Mobile Products Drive ViaSat Growth
ViaSat Inc. posted a profit of $6 million on revenue of $104.1 million in its second quarter 2006, the company announced Nov. 3. In the same period a year ago, […]
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Thuraya CEO Examines African Opportunity
Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Co. CEO Yousuf Al Sayed said generating stronger revenues from the African communications market is one of the company’s key challenges in 2006. “The major challenges are […]
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Delphi Delivers Modem For Asset Tracking
Delphi Corp. delivered the first shipment of the new DS300 satellite transceiver modem to Stellar Satellite Communications, Delphi announced Nov.2. The modem, aimed at the asset-tracking market, delivers data via […]
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Harris Unveils New Function for Satellite Command and Control Product
Harris Corp. introduced a new XTCE database converter for the company’s OS/Comet satellite command and control suite of products. The new database allows users to translate databases in XTCE to […]
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B4U Global Music Channel Now Available On Dish Network Satellite TV Service
Echostar Communications Corp. announced Nov. 2 that its Dish Network satellite television service now offers B4U Music, a 24-hour global music TV channel. The channel features musical hits from the […]
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Worldspace Satellite Radio Lights Up Ahmedabad
Worldspace Satellite Radio announced Nov. 3 availability of its service in Ahmedabad, India, the seventh largest city in the country. Ahmedabad has a population of nearly 4 million, including more […]
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Globecomm Revenues Up On Continued Government Demand
Globecomm Systems Inc. reported revenue of $29.6 million in the company’s first quarter 2006, up 16 percent from revenue of $25.5 million in the same period a year ago, Globecomm […]
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Spacedev Closes $2.5 Million Financing Round
Spacedev Inc. closed the sale of $2.5 million of securities to Laurus Master Fund Ltd., the company announced Nov. 2. The proceeds from the sale will provide working capital, including […]
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DirecTV Posts $95 Million Profit In Third Quarter
DirecTV Group Inc. recorded a profit of $95 million on revenue of $3.2 billion in the third quarter 2005, the company reported Nov. 3. In the third quarter 2004, the […]
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SUIRG Launches Interference Tracking Matrix Database
The Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group (SUIRG) launched an online, interactive database to consolidate and tracks incidents of satellite radio frequency interference within the geostationary arc, the organization announced. The […]
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SES Americom Endorses Direcway DW7000 Platform
Hughes Network Systems (HNS) said Nov. 2 that SES Americom has endorsed HNS’ DW7000 platform and the Internet-protocol-over-satellite standard upon which it is based. The standard is used by the […]
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Iridium, Impeva To Provide Container Monitoring Solution To PANYNJ
Iridium Satellite LLC and Impeva Labs Inc. said Nov. 2 that they would expand their collaboration to implement a real-time container monitoring, tracking and security system on behalf of the […]
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Nissan North America Selects XM Satellite Radio
Nissan North America Inc. selected XM Satellite Radio as the factory-installed satellite radio solution for Infiniti and Nissan vehicles beginning with the 2008 model year, the companies announced Nov. 2. […]
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Telesat Reports Third Quarter Results
Telesat Canada reported third quarter 2005 earnings of Cdn. $25.3 million ($21.5 million) on revenues of Cdn. $112.2 million ($95.5 million), the company announced Nov. 2. In the third quarter […]
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Venezuela Buys Satellite From China
Venezuela signed an agreement Nov. 1 to buy a satellite from China, the Venezuelan Ministry of Science and Technology announced. The Simon Bolivar Satellite will provide telecommunications services such as […]