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[Satellite Today – 4-17-08] Thales is undergoing a major restructuring of its management team, Chairman and CEO Denis Ranque announced April 16.     Pascale Sourisse, formerly the senior vice president...

[Satellite Today – 4-17-08] Orbital Sciences Corp. increased revenues and net income in the first quarter of 2008, the company announced April 17.     Orbital’s revenues increased by 30 percent...

[Satellite Today – 4-17-08] The first high-definition (HD) public broadcast channel to German speaking countries, ORF HD, will launch in early May, SES Astra confirmed April 17. After the launch...

[Satellite Today – 4-16-08] iDirect Inc.’s IP communications platform has been certified to be interoperable with Ericsson’s Abis over IP GSM satellite backhaul solution, iDirect announced April 15.     The...

[Satellite Today – 4-16-08] Shin Satellite has changed its name to Thaicom Public Company Ltd., the company said April 16. The name change became effective as of April 10. Thaicom...

[Satellite Today – 4-16-08] DigitalGlobe Inc. has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission relating to a proposed initial public offering of its common stock, the...

[Satellite Today – 4-16-08] SatelliteToday.com will feature the latest news from the 2008 NAB Show beginning April 14.     Be sure to check out the live Blog at www.SatelliteToday.com/blog for...

[Satellite Today – 4-16-08] The Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) has been launched and the first signals successfully acquired, the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) announced...

[Satellite Today – 4-16-08] Boeing Co. subsidiary Boeing Launch Services has been awarded a contract to launch DigitalGlobe’s second WorldView satellite, Boeing announced April 16.     A Delta 2 expendable...

[Satellite Today – 4-16-08] Viasat will launch direct-to-home (DTH) services in Ukraine at the beginning of next week, its parent company Modern Times Group (MTG) announced April 16. Viasat Ukraine...