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EchoStar Communications [NYSE: DISH] announced that its DISH Network will add Si TV to its “America’s Top 150” programming package when the network launches this summer. Si TV is an […]

DirecTV Latin America (DLA) Chairman Kevin McGrath admitted to SATELLITE TODAY that the company has its work cut out to avoid going into bankruptcy protection. “I think the chance we […]

Satellite broadband hopeful WildBlue Communications has received $156 million in new investments. Liberty Satellite & Technology, Intelsat, National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC), Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and David Drucker, […]

Space Imaging, a satellite imagery provider, announced Thursday that John R. Copple, its CEO since 1995, has resigned from the company to pursue other opportunities. The board has negotiated an […]

Italy’s Alitalia has become the first airline to offer the Data3mail in-flight email service developed by ASI Entertainment [OTC: ASIQ]. Following the installation of ASI’s hardware and software platform, a […]

Medweb will provide a mobile medical communications and triage vehicle and an instant Internet-enabled field clinic for the “Shadow Bowl” initiatives this weekend at the Super Bowl in San Diego. […]

ORBIT/FR, a developer of microwave test and measurement systems for the aerospace industry, said Thursday that its shareholders approved a one-for-four reverse stock split of the company’s common stock. The […]

Liberty Satellite & Technology, a majority owned entity of Liberty Media [NYSE: L], has reached an agreement with Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], Northrop Grumman‘s [NYSE: NOC] Space & Mission Systems […]

XM Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: XMSR] has received tenders and consents from a majority of the outstanding 14 percent senior secured notes due 2010. In addition, XM has received the necessary […]

Aether Systems [Nasdaq: AETH] (Owings Mills, Md.) , in partnership with TransCommunications (Chattanooga, Tenn.), a provider of business telecom products for the transportation industry, and the Mobilacomm Eagle division of […]

TOMRA East, a division of TOMRA North America (Stratford, Conn.), a provider of automated recycling systems for collecting used beverage containers, will deploy Nexterna‘s (Omaha, Neb.) Clearview field service management […]

Space Imaging has been awarded a multi-year satellite imagery capacity contract by the U.S. Defense Department’s National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA). Under terms of the contract, NIMA would acquire […]

Starz Encore Group and its sister company, International Channel Networks, have renewed satellite capacity contracts with PanAmSat [Nasdaq: SPOT]. As part of the agreement, Starz Encore (Englewood, Colo.) and International […]

HONOLULU–Boeing Satellite Systems (BSS), the commercial satellite arm of Boeing [NYSE: BA], has used current global market circumstances to “look at what is really core to our business,” President Randy […]

HONOLULU–Asia represents one of the world’s largest markets for satellite products and services, with 67 commercial satellites transmitting to a third of the world’s population. Asian satellite operators “may be […]

NDS CEO Abe Peled outlined the challenges for conditional access vendors this year. NDS is trying to bounce back from a difficult 12 months. Last year, NDS became embroiled in […]

With the release this week of a “green paper” on the European Union‘s space policy, the European Commission and the European Space Agency are preparing to debate the future direction […]

Orbital Imaging (ORBIMAGE) has signed a non-binding agreement with its unsecured creditors and its parent, Orbital Sciences [NYSE: ORB], that will allow it to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. […]

NSI Global‘s [Toronto: NGL] Vistar unit has signed a value-added reseller agreement with Thermo King, a unit of Ingersoll- Rand [NYSE: IR], and has received an initial order from Thermo […]

HONOLULU–The Asian market will be good for up to six new commercial satellite orders over the next 24 months, according to projections from two key executives of Loral Space and […]

HONOLULU–As the world’s commercial expendable launch vehicle (ELV) companies struggle to regain their footing following a year of plummeting prices for their services and a series of high-profile rocket failures, […]

HONOLULU–Although the global march toward digital television continues, it has slowed down due to global economic woes, which are causing regional and global satellite operators to adjust their sales and […]

HONOLULU–Boeing Launch Services, operator of the Sea Launch and Delta launch vehicle families, has scheduled 20 launches for 2003, BLS vice president Jane Schnaars said here Monday. The 2003 run […]

Intelsat has signed an agreement with REACH, a joint venture between Hong Kong-based PCCW [NYSE: PCW] and Australia’s Telstra Corp. [NYSE: TLS], to lease teleport services from REACH’s Stanley Teleport […]

Serbian network BK TV, Hungarian broadcaster Duna TV, and Poland’s TVP3 have selected the GlobeCast WorldTV direct-to-home platform on Telstar 5 for subscription satellite distribution in the United States. GlobeCast’s […]

Week of January 13 – 17, 2003 Percentage Change Symbol Jan. 16 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.79 7.2 (3.2) […]

Globecomm Systems [GCOM], a provider of satellite-based communications, received a $15 million contract to provide satellite infrastructure to a European customer. Under the terms of the contract, Globecomm will modernize […]

A Boeing [BA] Delta II rocket has successfully launched the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s ICESat (ice, cloud and elevation satellite) and CHIPSat (cosmic hot interstellar plasma spectrometer satellite) from […]

Foundation Telecommunications Inc. (FTI) and SES Americom Inc., an SES Global unit, have agreed to a strategic partnership that will enable cable system operators to deliver broadband Internet connectivity. FTI’s […]

Analytical Graphics Inc. (AGI) has expanded its seven-year strategic alliance with Science Applications International Corp./Advanced Technology Group (SAIC/ATG) of Huntsville, Ala. AGI will assist SAIC/ATG’s business development efforts to define […]