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International Launch Services is in final preparations for what will be the first Atlas 5 launch for the U.S. government. The company will be sending NASA‘s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter into […]

Following its ratification of the European Space Agency (ESA) Convention, Luxembourg became ESA’s 17th Member State, effective June 30. Cooperation between ESA and Luxembourg began with the signing of a […]

ViaSat Inc., which offers VSAT products for voice and data applications, broke a company record with revenues of $100 million during the fiscal 2006 first quarter, up from $84.2 million […]

International Launch Services (ILS) is in final preparations for what will be the first Atlas 5 launch for the U.S. government. The company will be sending NASA‘s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter […]

EMS Technologies Inc. announced last week it has executed non-binding letters of intent with unnamed strategic buyers for its Space & Technology/Montreal and Satnet divisions and currently is engaged in […]

Inmarsat CEO Andy Sukawaty confirmed to Satellite Today that everything is on track for the operator’s launch of BGAN (Broadband Global Area Network) services later this year. Based on Internet […]

The launch of Russia’s latest remote Earth-sensing satellite, Monitor-E, was postponed until Aug. 26 due to a problem with the satellite’s navigation system, according to reports from Itar-Tass. The launch […]

The total number of leased C- and Ku-band transponders should exceed 4,950 in 2010, up from 4,125 at the end of 2004, according to Northern Sky Research. While demand for […]

Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. (Asiasat) launched a new Kashmiri channel aboard Asiasat 2 in conjunction with Azad Jammu and Kashmir Television Station, Asiasat announced Aug. 4. AJK TV is […]

Worldspace Inc. closed its first day of trading on the Nasdaq market at $22.36. Worldspace’s debuted on the Nasdaq market Aug. 4 under the symbol WRSP with an initial public […]

DirecTV Group Inc. earned $162 million in its second quarter 2005, rebounding from a net loss of $13 million in the same period a year ago, DirecTV reported Aug. 4. […]

New Skies Satellites Holdings Ltd. reported revenue of $59.7 million in its second quarter 2005, the company said Aug. 4. The net loss in the second quarter 2005 was $13.2 […]

Starz Entertainment Group LLC (SEG), which provides premium movie content to cable and satellite television service providers across the United States, announced Aug. 2 that it would cease transmission of […]

With many mobile telecom operators having begun trials (or in the case of TU Media in Korea, launched commercial service), SES Global subsidiaries SES Americom and SES Astra entered the […]

Boeing Co. completed the sale of its Rocketdyne Propulsion & Power business to United Technologies Corp., effective Aug. 2. Rocketdyne builds engines for the space shuttle and Boeing’s Delta family […]

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. lost $500,000 on revenue of $51.4 million in its second quarter 2005, the company reported Aug. 3. In the same period a year ago, Gilat lost […]

Telesat Canada, a wholly owned subsidiary of BCE Inc., set quarterly records for revenue and earnings, the company reported. Operating revenues for the second quarter 2005 were Cdn. $137.3 million […]

U.K. satellite pay-TV operator BSkyB is closing in on its target of 8 million subscribers by the end of 2005. The operator announced Aug. 3 that it added 83,000 subscribers […]

Hughes Network Systems Europe (HNS Europe) received a contract to be the sole supplier of satellite broadband services to Provident International, a personal credit company. Provident required broadband connectivity from […]

The demand for satellite-enabled hardware for automotive manufacturers continues to grow. Sirius Satellite Radio announced that its hardware is available as both a dealer and post-production option for the 2005 […]

The New York Times Co. and XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. said Aug. 3 they signed an agreement for the satellite radio company to carry content from the recently created […]

Sirius Satellite Radio reported record revenues for its second quarter 2005, driven by increased subscriber numbers and low churn. However, the company also reported a widening net loss due to […]

The first satellite that will be part of Europe’s Galileo global satellite navigation system has been transferred to the Netherlands for testing. The European Space Agency announced that one of […]

Hughes Network Systems LLC will use Intelsat‘s newly launched IA-8 satellite to support HNS’ Direcway broadband satellite service. HNS will use an undisclosed number of Ku-band transponders on IA-8, launched […]

Spacenet Inc. earlier this week said it extended its services portfolio with the new Connexstar Enterprise Partition (EP) service, which provides a partitioned central hub infrastructure and dedicated network bandwidth […]

ITT Industries said it received a one-year base contract from Telos Corp. to provide operations and maintenance support for the AN/GSC-39D Standardized Tactical Entry Point (STEP) facility at Al Udeid […]

Glowlink Communications Technology Inc. said it received an order for additional Glowlink Model 1000 Satellite Monitoring Systems to be used in three Intelsat teleports. The Model 1000 monitoring product is […]

Optus has pushed back until 2006 the launch of two satellites – D1 and D2 – which would have replaced its aging B Series satellites, according to an Aug. 2 […]

Certain creditors seeking to force Satelites Mexicanos S.A. de C.V. (Satmex) to file for bankruptcy in the United States have agreed to withdraw their petition for an involuntary Chapter 11 […]

Iridium Satellite LLC had about 127,000 voice and data subscribers as of June 30, a 20 percent increase compared to its number of subscribers at the same time last year […]