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Officials from NovAtel Inc. [NGPS] said the European Patent Office upheld the company’s Narrow Correlator Tracking Technology patent (EP 0488739 B2), deeming the patent “valid.” Narrow Correlator tracking technology is […]

C-Com Satellite Systems Inc. [CMI] granted options to purchase 596,000 of the company’s common shares to its directors and officers last month. The options are exercisable at 22.3 cents per […]

DirecTV, the largest satellite TV service in the United States, filed suit against rival EchoStar Communications [DISH], claiming its competitor created “false and misleading” advertisements to distribute to customers in […]

The United States and the European Union (EU) have, according to wire reports, struck a deal that will make the U.S. GPS navigation system compatible with the EU’s planned Galileo […]

DigitalGlobe officials today highlighted several satellite image-based products that will be available to government and private-sector users during the upcoming Summer Olympic Games in Athens this August. DigitalGlobe is offering […]

SiriCOMM Inc. [SIRC] signed a five-year VSAT services agreement with ViaSat Inc. [VSAT]. The deal has ViaSat providing hardware, installation and services for SiriCOMM’s nationwide network. Financial terms were not […]

DirecTV Inc. [DTV] will begin offering local channels to its direct-to-home satellite television broadcasting service subscribers in the Charlestown, S.C.; the Greenville-New Bern, N.C.; and the Toledo and Youngstown, Ohio, […]

Sky PerfecTV, Japan’s largest digital satellite broadcaster, chose the DIVArchive from Front Porch Digital Inc. [FPDI] to manage its large centralized archive of digital content.

Officials with DirecTV and the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC) praised a federal judge’s ruling Monday that denied a request from Pegasus Satellite Television for a temporary restraining order that […]

A DirecTV Inc. [DTV] spokesman told Satellite Today today that the company will not challenge a recently proposed $87,500 fine by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The federal agency levied […]

Officials from DirecTV Inc. [DTV] and KVH Industries Inc. [KVH] said today that the companies have signed a multi-year agreement that allows customers to receive DirecTV satellite television services in […]

Officials from WildBlue Communications Inc. and KoSpace today said that the companies have signed an agreement under which KoSpace will produce Ka-band transceivers for WildBlue’s consumer and small office/home office […]

Officials from LG Electronics Inc. and LodgeNet Entertainment Corp. [LNET] today said they will be offering an end-to-end solution to deliver high-definition digital video to guest room television sets from […]

Officials from Laser Recording Systems Inc. and SCL Ventures Ltd. recently said the companies have completed a share exchange and the combined companies now are operating under the name Weida […]

Week of June 11 – 17, 2004 Percentage Change Symbol June 17 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.82 7.1 6.4 […]

BSkyB [BSY] has signaled its intention to be much more of a player in the lower-end segment of the U.K. digital television market. It will launch a Free-To-Air (FTA) satellite […]

There is little doubt India has the potential to be a huge market for satellite services — a major growth opportunity for numerous operators looking to boost their positions in […]

By Robert Bell, World Teleport Association There is an old joke in Washington, D.C., about the Department of Defense. The good news is that by 2010 (or another suitably distant […]

Longmont, Colo.-based DigitalGlobe’s high-resolution QuickBird satellite images and Native Communities Development Corporation’s (NCDC) proprietary remote-sensing technology will be combined to aid with wildfire risk-assessment and emergency-response planning in California. The […]

Startups offer special challenges that include developing a workable and practical business plan, installing a management team with the right skills and obtaining sufficient financing. All those ingredients are needed […]

A report released at our deadline by the House Appropriations Committee challenges the government to choose just one U.S. company to service federal launch contracts, partly due to financial considerations […]

Englewood, Colo.-based EchoStar Communications [DISH] achieved an enormous milestone last week when it reached the 10-million subscriber mark. However, the company’s praiseworthy accomplishment is clouded by rising competition that most […]

Dulles, Va.-based Orbimage assembled its top officials last week for a quarterly conference call that gave the clear impression they are looking toward the future with a bold sense of […]

Officials from SES Astra, an SES Global company, said the company, together with more than 60 of its European broadcast customers, hardware manufacturers and other industry partners, agreed on the […]

Stratos Global Corp. [SGB] launched Mobile Packet Data Service (MPDS) For Fleet F33 as part of the Fleet brand of solutions it offers that use the Inmarsat satellite network for […]

President and CEO Robert Sachs has advised the National Cable and Telecommunications Association that he will not seek to renew his contract, which ends in December. He did say in […]

According to Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [GILTF], Frisch’s Restaurants Inc. tapped Gilat’s U.S.-subsidiary Spacenet to provide a Connexstar broadband satellite network to 120 “Big Boy” and “Golden Corral” restaurants in […]

Motia Inc., a semiconductor company that has applied its smart-antenna technology to the mobile in-vehicle satellite television market, closed a third round of funding. The round, led by Prism Venture […]

Officials from Helius Inc. today said Pittsburgh International Telecommunications (PIT) has joined the Helius strategic alliance program. PIT’s teleport provides telecom transport, switching and satellite transmission technology with full-fiber connectivity […]

Zee Networks Chairman Subhash Chandra believes the digital television market in India will experience significant growth during the next few years. He told Satellite Today, “In the next two years, […]