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Cartoon Network is to launch a new channel featuring classic cartoons from the Hanna-Barbera library. The channel, Boomerang, will start broadcasting on May 27 from 0600-2400. It will be available...

Arab Radio and Television (ART) is planing to bring at least four Arabic language channels to 28.2 degrees East. An ART insider suggested that it has considered renting transponder space...

Spain’s leading digital pay-TV platform, Canal Satelite Digital (CSD), says it plans to reach one million subscribers and launch 20 new digital channels this year. Currently, the venture has 865,000...

Arianespace has successfully launched a dual payload on an Ariane 5 launcher. The craft put Worldspace’s AsiaStar and the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Insat 3B satellites into orbit. AsiaStar will...

With probable causes already streaming in from international assessment teams regarding the March 12 launch failure of The Boeing Co. [BA]-led Sea Launch consortium, the company began assembling the umbrella...

Denver-based Space Imaging signed an agreement to acquire Pacific Meridian Resources, of Emeryville, Calif., enabling Space Imaging to significantly expand visual Earth information products and to increase Pacific Meridian’s product...

Engineers at Lockheed Martin Corp. Space Systems [LMT], Boeing Co. [BA] launch managers and NASA officials were all smiles March 25 when the latest satellite for NASA lifted off from...

SpaceDev [SPDVE] and Wireless Future Inc. announced March 28 that they jointly will develop and market a next-generation, miniaturized, low-cost STDN- compatible transponder (the MST-21), for use on government and...

The U.S. Navy awarded Harris Corp. [HRS] a five-year contract that will provide the Multi-Band Shipboard Satellite Communications Terminal System for the Navy’s Arleigh Burke DDG-51 class destroyers. Naval officials...

Stratos Global Corp. [SGB] has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Datacom Inc. for $65 million. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and other undisclosed...