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[Satellite TODAY 08-06-09] AsiaSat expects to launch the AsiaSat 5 satellite on an ILS Proton launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Aug. 12, the company announced Aug. […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-05-09] Stratos Global deployed an Inmarsat FleetBroadband mobile satellite system onboard the tall ship Bark Europa to broadcast coverage of the final leg of the Tall Ships Atlantic […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-05-09] Aerojet, a U.S. supplier of satellite propulsion systems and NEC Corp. have partnered to explore the feasibility of jointly supplying low power ion propulsion systems, used for […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-05-09] Interorbital Systems (IOS), a U.S.-based rocket and spacecraft manufacturing company, is marketing the launch and orbit of personal-use satellites to the general public, the company announced Aug. […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-05-09] Astrium Services delivered the first set of secure satellite communications equipment to Aselsan for MILGEM, a Turkish Navy program, Astrium announced Aug. 3.     The Astrium delivery […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-05-09] Mohamed Youssif has been appointed CEO of YahLive, a partnership between SES Astra and Yahsat offering satellite capacity for DTH services to the Middle East, North Africa […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-09] Sky Deutschland has appointed Wolfram Winter senior vice president of distribution and development, the company announced July 31.     Winter will be responsible for further developing co-operative […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-09] SkyTerra has added the Infrastructure Satellite Mutual Aid Radio Talk-group (I-SMART) to its family of SMART talk-groups, the company announced Aug. 3.     I-SMART, created by Seattle […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-09] Gilat Satellite Networks subsidiary Spacenet introduced its Prysm Pro application, the company’s second-generation integrated and off-the-shelf IP networking solution, Spacenet announced Aug. 3.     Spacenet said Prysm […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-09] GlobeCast has signed a deal with China Central Television (CCTV) to distribute CCTV’s newly-launched Arabic channel to the Middle East and North Africa via Arabsat’s BADR-6 satellite, […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-09] Hughes Network Systems signed an agreement to supply Bentley Walker with its new HX mesh satellite network technology for delivering broadband services in the Middle East and […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-09] The U.S. Department of Defense awarded Raytheon $9.9 million to perform concept studies for the U.S. Navy’s Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) suite, the company announced […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-04-09] ProtoStar has reached an agreement with its principal lender groups after filing July 29 for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States and Bermuda, the company […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-03-09] Beyond DSL, Ten Haaft and Conrad Anderson have formed a mobile satellite broadband Internet technology partnership in the United Kingdom, the companies announced July 31.     The […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-03-09] Integral Systems has reached a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over fraud charges filed against the company in 2008, Integral Systems announced July […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-03-09] Eutelsat increased its yearly revenues by more than 7 percent to 940.5 million euros ($1.3 billion) at the end of June, compared to 877.8 million euros ($1.2 […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-03-09] SES reported operating profits of 359.9 million euros in the first half of 2009, an increase of 9.2 percent over the first half of 2008, according to […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-03-09] BSkyB is planning to launch a 3-D TV channel in 2010, the company announced July 31.     The service will be broadcast across Sky’s existing HD infrastructure […]

[Satellite TODAY 08-03-09] Raytheon has elected Stephen Hadley to its board of directors, effective immediately, the company announced July 31.     Hadley previously served as the principal White House foreign […]

TECHNOLOGY C-Com Unveils Inclined Orbit Satellite Tracking C-Com Satellite Systems has developed a proprietary inclined orbit satellite-tracking algorithm intended to provide customers with the ability to use inclined orbit satellites […]

The U.S. government’s plans to distribute $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus funding became clearer when the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and the U.S. National Telecommunications and […]

There are very few satellite executives that have worked as intimately with the U.S. military and government sectors as Intelsat General President Kay Sears, who has spent the past several […]

[Satellite Today 08-01-09] Satellite industry officials and analysts believe the post-bankruptcy sale of ProtoStar satellites will draw interest from multiple parties.     AsiaSat CEO Peter Jackson told Satellite Today that […]

[Satellite Today 07-31-09] SES Astra signed a capacity deal with German satellite service provider InSat, SES Astra announced July 30.     InSat will use a transponder on Astra 2C to […]

[Satellite Today 07-31-09] Orolia, a developer of precision timing, positioning and synchronization electronics systems, signed an agreement with Airtek Capital Group to acquire Kannad SAS, a French supplier of maritime, […]

[Satellite Today 07-31-09] BSkyB has hit a five-year annual subscriber net growth high in 2009, according to its full-year results, released July 30.     The U.K. operator expanded its customer […]

[Satellite Today 07-31-09] Norsat reported revenues of $4.5 million in its 2009 second quarter, a 23 percent increase from the $3.6 million mark the company hit in the same period […]

[Satellite Today 07-31-09] DEV Systemtechnik has re-designed its L-band signal distribution system, DEV 2180 to include a controller and SNMP/Ethernet interface and hot-pluggable amplifiers as standard features for the appliance, […]

[Satellite Today 07-31-09] Comtech AHA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications, released AHA367-PCIe, a high-speed data compression board based on the open standard GZIP data compression algorithm, Comtech announced July […]

[Satellite Today 07-30-09] Eutelsat has signed a capacity deal with GlobeCast for a transponder to broadcast channels by Romanian public broadcaster TVR, the operator announced July 29.     Eutelsat said […]