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Alcatel Space plans to install a new acoustic chamber for satellite environment tests, and it should be operational in May 2005. The company decided to build this new test facility […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] said the Gravity Probe B that it built for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was launched into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California yesterday. […]

Harris [HRS], a communications equipment provider, rolled out a new plug-and-play module to support video-over-IP for rich-media- content distributors that range from satellite to telecom service providers. The NetVX Gigabit […]

V-One Corp. [VONE] officials said today their company will introduce its “on demand” VPN-over-satellite service through the via its broadband satellite resellers. According to V-One, the service is built around […]

Intelsat and TIBA formed a strategic partnership under which TIBA will act as the primary sales channel for long-term Intelsat video services provided by the IS- 805 bird, located at […]

XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. [XMSR] said its XM Satellite Radio Inc. subsidiary completed a $200 million offering of senior, secured, floating-rate notes due 2009.

Officials from PanAmSat Corp. [SPOT] and its 80.5-percent shareholder The DirecTV Group [DTV] today said they signed a definitive transaction agreement with affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) […]

LAS VEGAS–National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) President and CEO Edward Fritts verbally bashed satellite TV and radio providers at the group’s annual conference here yesterday. On the television front, Fritts […]

A Soyuz TMA-4 spacecraft carrying three astronauts is heading to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of an 11-day mission. The Delta mission lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] officials was awarded a contract to build a second A2100AX geostationary telecommunications satellite for JSAT Corporation of Japan. The bird, designated JCSAT-10, will provide communications services throughout […]

LAS VEGAS–High-definition television services (HDTV) offer an opportunity for satellite operators to fill part of their excess capacity during the next few years, said Robert Hedinger, Loral Skynet’s executive vice […]

BT Broadcast Services (BTBS) launched what it said was the industry’s first end-to-end, high-definition (HD) solution that fully integrates fiber and satellite. The new service aims to increase revenue opportunities […]

Week of April 9 – 15, 2004 Percentage Change   Symbol April 15 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.94 (1.0) […]

OpenTV [OPTV] CEO James Ackerman believes News Corp’s [NWS] entrance into the United States could usher in a new era of interactive television. Ackerman told Satellite News, “I think DirecTV […]

BT Broadcast Services (BTBS) achieved a measure of success by meeting its financial targets for its fiscal year ended March 31, said its Managing Director Mark Smith. The company, however, […]

By Maria Velez de Berliner It is useful to remember that Brazil was the country most responsible last year for the belief that Latin America was recovering economically. Cautious optimism […]

Houston-based CapRock Communications and Carlsbad, Calif.-based ViaSat [VSAT] combined their respective marketplace and technical strengths to form a global VSAT (very small aperture terminal) alliance to serve the oil and […]

By Paul Dykewicz, PBI Media LLC The inimitable Aretha Franklin used her booming and soulful voice to turn the song “Respect” into a huge hit. Respect is exactly what satellite […]

NEW YORK–The top executives at Washington, D.C.-based XM Satellite Radio [XMSR] and Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI] verbally sparred with each other last week about which company is pursuing the best […]

San Jose, Calif.-based Globalstar’s emergence from Chapter 11 protection last week offers new promise for the once debt-laden company to unlock the full value of its satellite- phone technology to […]

International Launch Services (ILS) officials said today the company secured contracts from SES Americon and SES Astra to launch three satellites in 2005 and 2006. Financial terms of the contracts […]

Digital+, the leading satellite pay-TV operator in Spain, ended the first quarter of 2004 with 1,732,000 subscribers. Sogecable (the owners of the Digital+ platform) launched the Digital+ service in July […]

El Segundo, Calif.-based DirecTV, a unit of The DirecTV Group [DTV], received welcome news last week when a federal jury awarded the satellite TV services provider $51.5 million in damages […]

Russian Satellite Communications Co. said its communications and broadcasting Express-AM11 satellite will be launched into geostationary orbit at 96.5 degrees East on April 27. The bird will be delivered into […]

Officials from Mercedes-Benz USA and Sirius Satellite Radio [SIRI] said today the satellite radio service will be available in most Mercedes- Benz models starting this year and moving forward as […]

Eutelsat, the U.S. subsidiary of satellite operator Eutelsat S.A., inked a deal between its parent company and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to deliver occasional-use capacity on three Eutelsat satellites […]

PanAmSat [SPOT] launched PASport, a global on-the-spot broadcasting service for the transmission of live breaking news. This new service gives broadcasters and video-content producers access to PanAmSat’s global hybrid network […]

GlobeXplorer, a subsidiary of Stewart Information Services [STC], a Walnut Creek, Calif.-based geographic data and publishing company that provides satellite images via the Internet, is using Dell [DELL] server technology […]

The Superbird-6 satellite lifted into orbit last night after a successful launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on an Atlas IIAS rocket provided by International Launch Services (ILS). Liftoff of the […]

Intuicom, a Boulder, Colo.-based wireless data company, yesterday released the Military II navigator data link with embedded Global Positioning System (GPS) capabilities for military and homeland- security applications. The Military […]