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Delta Air Lines‘ [NYSE: DAL] new low-fair airline Song plans in October to begin offering satellite TV service to passengers. Song is partnering with Matsushita Avionics Systems and EchoStar Communications […]

SATELLITE TODAY invites you and your team to join us on Tuesday, April 29, from noon-1:30 PM EST for an exclusive Webinar: “From Broadcast To Broadband: Seizing the Next Satellite […]

Don’t miss the International Space University‘s 8th Annual International Symposium: “Satellite Navigation Systems: Policy, Commercial and Technical Interaction” to be held in Strasbourg, France, May 26-28. The symposium will differ […]

PanAmSat, the Wilton, Conn.-based fixed satellite services provider, is placing greater emphasis on the market for U.S. government satellite services, as well as on integrated satellite and fiber offerings. These […]

The Italian pay-TV operator Telepiu is at the top of the tree in terms of growing subscribers among digital satellite pay-TV providers in Europe. Telepiu increased its subscriber base by […]

France’s Canal Satellite has already received over 20,000 orders for its new Pilotime service, which uses a next-generation set-top box (STB), even before the start of its nationwide TV advertising […]

While consolidation among satellite pay-TV operators is accelerating in southern Europe, the colder regions of Europe have stimulated robust competition in the satellite TV market. In the Nordic region, Modern […]

The International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO) has launched an initiative to bring broadband via satellite to less developed regions of the globe. ITSO was formed during the privatization of Intelsat […]

Alcatel Space has concluded a deal to provide a new weather satellite, worth 135 million euros ($146.9 million), to Eumetsat, an intergovernmental organisation that operates meteorological satellites for 18 European […]

SES Americom got a shot in the arm recently with announcement of a deal with EchoStar Communications to provide satellite capacity to the U.S. direct broadcast satellite (DBS) operator on […]

A = Analogue D = Digital 122 degreesE: Asiasat 4 D Asiasat 4 was launched successfully aboard an Atlas IIIB rocket from Cape Canaveral on April 12 at 00:47. It […]

Stanford University and QuakeFinder are developing a satellite that will detect earthquake activity in California by monitoring a network of ground-based sensors. The micro-satellite, called QuakeSat I and weighing about […]

Hughes Network Systems Europe (HNSE), a unit of Hughes Network Systems, has agreed to provide its DirecWay broadband satellite service to PHC Poland for resale to small and medium-sized businesses […]

Within 18 months, the number of U.S. homes able to receive interactive television through cable and satellite systems will drive an increase in the number of advertisers using interactivity. This […]

Columbia, Md.-based Impact Labs and London-based AOS are demonstrating a system for compressing, securing, transmitting, and viewing DICOM-compliant medical images through the use of satellite terminals at the American Telemedicine […]

General Dynamics C4 Systems will deliver GPS-equipped PDAs, along with other hardware and software, to U.S. armed forces under modifications to existing contracts. These contract modifications total $39 million and […]

WildBlue Communications announced Tuesday that Liberty Satellite & Technology [OTC:LSTTA], Intelsat, National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC), Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and David Drucker, WildBlue’s chairman, have finalized their $156 […]

PanAmSat [Nasdaq: SPOT]COO Jim Frownfelter is optimistic market conditions will turn around in 2004, although he concedes this year is likely to be tough. PanAmSat recently issued some encouraging first […]

Tyco Telecommunications, a Morristown, N.J.-based business unit of Tyco Electronics, has been selected by a subsidiary of the Norwegian Space Center (NSC) to supply the Svalbard undersea cable system linking […]

IONA [Nasdaq: IONA], a Waltham, Mass.-based provider of integration software, and Connexion By Boeing, a business unit of Boeing [NYSE: BA] that provides communication services to aircraft, have announced that […]

Yukon Telephone, the incumbent provider for the rural Alaskan communities of Whittier, Tanana and Ruby, has selected MetaSwitch‘s VP3500 next-generation class 5 switch to replace its existing Mitel and Redcom […]

Australian private-equity investment firm Castle Harlan Australian Mezzanine Partners (CHAMP) has completed the acquisition of a majority interest in Austar United Communications [Sydney: AUN.AX], in line with a plan announced […]

Week of April 11 – 17, 2003 Percentage Change Symbol April 17 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.33 9.9 (11.9) […]

Geospatial engineering company I-cubed has developed a satellite image mosaic of the Middle East for use by the media covering the Iraq conflict. The mosaic includes Bahrain, Iraq, Israel/the West […]

Equant [NYSE: ENT], a provider of data and IP services for multinational businesses, will deploy an IP virtual private network for EUMETSAT to process weather data gathered from international meteorological […]

DigitalGlobe’s QuickBird satellite imagery is being used to support a wildlife observation study in Bristol Bay and the Bering Sea, Alaska. The imagery, purchased by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife […]

A passenger onboard a recent bmi flight from Chicago to Manchester, England, became the first commercial airline passenger to have an electrocardiogram (ECG) in flight with data from the procedure […]

EMS Technologies [Nasdaq: ELMG] has signed up UK-based NSSL as a master distributor for its suite of Inmarsat satellite products and services. NSSL will provide service to customers worldwide in […]

The Allied Defense Group’s California-based SeaSpace subsidiary has signed a long-term collaborative agreement with Taiwan’s National Space Program Office (NSPO). Under the agreement, SeaSpace and NSPO will collaborate initially on […]

Boeing Integrated Defense Systems has awarded ITT Industries’ [NYSE: ITT] Aerospace/Communication Division (A/CD) a contract with a potential value $31 million to upgrade 12 Global Positioning System (GPS) Block IIF […]