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Network integration firm Core180 Inc. received a subcontract from Virginia-based Arrowhead Global Solutions Inc. to provide bandwidth management for a project for the Defense Information Systems Network (DISN), Arrowhead announced...

Modern Times Group (MTG), owner of the Viasat direct-to-home platform, has completed its acquisition of 50 percent of Balkan Media Group, boosting MTG’s position in Central and Eastern Europe, MTG...

NewCom International has signed a marketing agreement to add SES Americom’s Redisat to NewCom’s communications offerings available across the Southeast United States, SES Americom announced March 21. NewCom, a Miami-based...

Lockheed Martin delivered the eighth and final GPS 2R-M satellite to the U.S. Air Force, Lockheed Martin announced March 21. Each satellite in the series includes a modernized antenna panel...

DCC Satellite & Networks Ltd. is using Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.’s SkyEdge platform to expand its network in Nigeria, Gilat announced March 20. DCC will use the platform to provide...

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) appointed John Mattingly to the position of president, satellite services, the company announced March 20. Prior to joining MSV, Mattingly served as president, satellite services, for...

SAT Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Integral Systems, Inc., will deliver a digital spectrum analyzer to IAI/MBT for its Europe-based teleport, SAT announced March 20. The SAT-DSA unit provides...

DMC International Imaging Ltd. will add an imagery satellite to the Disaster Monitoring Constellation in 2008, the company announced March 20. The UK DMC-2 microsatellite will be built by Surrey...

MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) has taken a controlling interest in Orbital Optics Ltd., MDA announced March 20. MDA will pay 900,000 British pounds ($1.7 million) to Rutherford Appleton...

Direct-to-home operator Sky TV New Zealand is increasing the number of widescreen channels available to customers, as the National Geographic Channel will begin broadcasting in 16:9 widescreen in early April,...