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German satellite pay-TV operator Premiere, reported earlier this week it had more than 3.3 million subscribers at the end of June, a year-on-year increase of more than 14 percent. Premiere […]

The European Commission (EC) cleared the merger of the government launch operations of Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co. into the United Launch Alliance joint venture. According to an Aug. […]

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has shipped more than 30 Skyedge commercial hubs and more than 10,000 Skyedge VSATs worldwide, the company announced Aug. 11. The Skyedge system is based on […]

Xantic received a contract from NATO to provide Inmarsat services for deployed forces, the company announced Aug. 11. Under the agreement with the NATO Consultation, Command & Control Agency, Xantic […]

An Ariane 5 rocket lofted the long-awaited Shin Satellite Plc‘s IPStar satellite into orbit Aug. 11, Arianespace announced. The spacecraft, with a launch mass of 6,485 kilograms, is the largest […]

If the Chinese government is going to achieve its goal of analog signal switch-off by 2015, then satellite will play a key role, an industry analyst said. However, the satellite […]

Teles Wireless Broadband Managing Director Andreas Kruger believes the United Kingdom is a potentially lucrative market for satellite broadband services. The company hopes to exploit the success of BSkyB in […]

In an effort to counter potential terrorists, increasingly sophisticated pirates and smugglers, Zoca Container Security BV is gearing up for the commercial release of a new marine shipping container security […]

Conditional access technology vendor NDS will play a key role in developing the direct-to-home (DTH) market in India, Alex Gersh, the company’s chief financial offer, said. NDS will be providing […]

Preliminary analysis from a failure review board (FRB) examining the January Intelsat IS-804 failure suggests root cause of the failure is note unique to this satellite. Instead, there could be […]

After two delays for a combination of weather and technical reasons, NASA‘s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was successfully launched Aug. 12 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft […]

Spacehab Inc. said that John Satrom, senior vice president and general manager of its Astrotech Space Operations subsidiary, has decided to leave the company to pursue other interests. Jim Royston […]

Westar Satellite Services and Helius Inc. signed a strategic alliance agreement under which the two companies will offer a service that allows for the delivery of high-quality video streams to […]

BSkyB, the U.K satellite pay-TV operator, has continued its push to make its content available on different platforms. In its latest deal, BSkyB announced that Vodafone has teamed up with […]

Digital Angel announced late last week that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration approved its Outerlink subsidiary’s new satellite radio transceiver, the Commpoint 3 Satcom Data Terminal. The terminal received a […]

Three members of the Congressional Black Caucus have asked Sirius Satellite Radio to reconsider its decision to stop broadcasting The Word Network, a channel featuring African-American ministries and gospel music, […]

After two delays for a combination of weather and technical reasons, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was launched Aug. 12 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The spacecraft was […]

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. has shipped more than 30 Skyedge commercial hubs and more than 10,000 Skyedge VSATs worldwide, the company announced Aug. 11. The Skyedge system is based on […]

Xantic received a contract from NATO to provide Inmarsat services for deployed forces, the company announced Aug. 11. Under the agreement with the NATO Consultation, Command & Control Agency, Xantic […]

Intelsat Ltd. posted a net loss of $53.4 million in the second quarter 2005 on revenue of $289.8 million, the company reported Aug. 11. In the same period in 2004, […]

The launch of NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was postponed for the second time Aug. 11 due to a combination of weather and technical problems, NASA announced. The delay was called […]

An Ariane 5 rocket lofted the long-awaited Shin Satellite Plc’s IPStar satellite into orbit Aug. 11, Arianespace announced. The spacecraft, with a launch mass of 6,485 kilograms, is the largest […]

Intelsat Ltd. attributed the January failure of the Intelsat 804 satellite to a design problem with the satellite platform, Intelsat said in its second quarter 2005 financial release. The IS-804 […]

China is planning to launch a lunar probe in 2007, according to a report from the Xinhua news agency. The Aug. 9 report cited an official from the China Aerospace […]

New Skies Satellites Holdings Ltd. introduced Scott Schneider as the eighth member of the company’s board of directors, effective Aug. 7. He will serve as a member of the company’s […]

Spacenet Inc. earlier this week introduced a satellite backup solution to its Connexstar On-Demand suite of services. As an extension to Spacenet’s Connexstar VSAT and DSL offering, Connexstar Backup provides […]

Caprock Communications said earlier this week that BHP Billiton would use Caprock’s disaster recovery solution for its back-up communications system to ensure that constant communications are maintained during hurricane season […]

German satellite pay-TV operator Premiere, reported earlier this week it had more than 3.3 million subscribers at the end of June, a year-on-year increase of more than 14 percent. Premiere […]

The European Commission (EC) cleared the merger of the government launch operations of Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co. into the United Launch Alliance joint venture. According to an Aug. […]

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said Aug. 9 that on the previous day, it discovered an anomaly in one of three sets of onboard observation equipment, the X-ray Spectrometer […]