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Orbimage Inc. said Sept. 22 it received new orders totaling $6.1 million under its Clearview contract with the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). These new orders represent an increase in […]

Skyterra Communications Inc. announced Sept. 22 it plans to separate into two publicly owned companies by early 2006, with a group of companies led by Motient Corp. set to acquire […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. said Sept. 23 it launched a satellite for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency aboard a Minotaur 1 rocket. The rocket was launched Sept. 22 from […]

Paul Guyardo has been named executive vice president and chief marketing officer of DirecTV effective Oct. 17, the company announced Sept. 22. Guyardo will be responsible for all aspects of […]

Satellite Lynx added another radio network broadcast by SES Americom‘s AMC-1 satellite, SES Americom announced. Satellite Lynx delivers transmitter-ready programming to FM radio stations throughout America. The company provides content […]

Globalstar LLC has begun construction of a satellite gateway in Wasilla, Alaska, the company announced. The gateway, which is scheduled to become fully operational in mid 2006, is intended to […]

France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications is set for a busy year with the launch of BGAN (Broadband Global Area Network) services, Erik Ceuppens, the company’s CEO, said. Inmarsat selected the […]

Viasat Inc. received an add-on order from the U.S. Navy for the company’s Multifunctional Information Distribution System terminals. The $5.2 million order from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command […]

SES Global will broadcast five digital TV channels provided by Polish public broadcaster TVP (Telewizja Polska SA), SES announced Sept. 22. TVP is one of the biggest public television broadcasters […]

Digitalglobe announced Sept. 21 that Thomas Henning was named the company’s new senior director of U.S. defense business development. Henning will interact with senior U.S. Department of Defense and intelligence […]

Tachyon Networks Inc. said Sept. 21 it is donating secure, carrier-grade broadband satellite services system to the Naval Postgraduate School arm of Joint Task Force Katrina. The system will help […]

SAT Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems Inc., announced Sept. 21 that it has delivered its digital spectrum analyzer, SAT-DSA, to Northrop- Grumman. SAT-DSA is a digital spectrum […]

Glowlink introduced its Webaccess product, which uses Internet browser technology to provide a web-based access overlay to the company’s spectrum monitoring system, the company announced. Customers using Webaccess will have […]

Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) received a $170 million contract from Spacecom to build the Amos 3 communications satellite, IAI announced. The satellite will be manufactured at IAI’s Systems Missiles & […]

EMS Technologies Inc. said Sept. 21 that the U.S. Department of Defense is equipping ground operators of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in Southeastern Asia with video capabilities from EMS DVB-RCS […]

Noorsat, a new entrant on the Middle East satellite communications landscape, is expecting strong growth in the satellite broadcast market. The company predicts the number of television channels broadcasting to […]

SBC Communications and Echostar Communications Corp. agreed to continue marketing co-branded SBC/Dish Network direct-to-home (DTH) satellite television services but modified the original agreement signed in July 2003. Under the new […]

Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. announced Sept. 21 they withdrew their filing with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding the formation of the United Launch Alliance. The companies […]

New Skies Satellite Holdings Ltd. announced Sept. 20 its board of directors declared a quarterly cash dividend for the third quarter of 2005 in the amount of $0.463125 per share, […]

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) said Sept. 20 that Mark Faris will take over as the company’s chief operating officer. Faris, a 30-year veteran network operator, will be responsible for design, […]

Eumetsat, the European Organisation for The Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, announced further measures to improve hurricane detection. The organization has announced that the High Resolution Visible (HRV) Channel on Eumetsat’s […]

Internet protocol television, or IPTV, via satellite is a niche market offering, accounting for a relatively small percentage share of the market potential that terrestrial- based platforms are likely to […]

The Joint Systems Integration Command (JSIC) has completed a successful first delivery and integration of a mobile broadband satellite system from ViaSat Inc. for command and control on-the-move (C2OTM) applications […]

Globecomm Systems Inc. announced Sept. 20 it won multiple contracts from Digicel Group (Digicel), a mobile telecommunications company in the Caribbean. Globecomm will design and install satellite infrastructure in Trinidad […]

Arinc Inc. announced Sept. 20 that Finnair, the national carrier of Finland, has selected Arinc to provide a full suite of satellite communications services. Arinc will provide passenger and cockpit […]

Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. (Asiasat) announced Sept. 20 that it signed an agreement with Airwaves Media (Pvt) Ltd. of Pakistan for the lease of C- band capacity on the […]

Telenor ASA and Orbital Sciences Corp. announced Sept. 20 that they signed a satellite manufacturing contract for a satellite that will replace Telenor’s Thor 2 spacecraft. It is the third […]

Lack of awareness remains high regarding satellite-enabled broadband solutions for ruralsmall businesses seeking connectivity, according to industry and government leaders. Representatives from the Federal Communications Commission, United States Department of […]

In the Sept. 19 issue of Satellite Today, we reported that Quake Global Inc. said its new Q1000 modem was delivered to Orbcomm for final U.S. Federal Communications Commission testing. […]

XM Satellite Radio will be the exclusive live radio broadcaster of the “From the Big Apple to the Big Easy” concert for Hurricane Katrina relief, taking place at New York’s […]