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[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] Gilat Satellite Networks has been chosen by Ethiopia’s national telecom operator, Ethiopian Telecommunication Corp. (ETC), to provide satellite communications equipment for deployment as part of the country’s...

[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] CapRock CTO Philip Harlow has left the company to join Xtar LLC as president and COO, Xtar announced June 2.     Harlow succeeds Denis Curtin, who is...

[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] Orbit Technologies won a contract to supply its systems for tracking low orbiting civilian imagery satellites to an unnamed Israeli satellite imaging company, Orbit announced June 2....

[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] German VSAT Internet provider Level 421 has selected optimization technology from XipLink to implement a German government SCPC VSAT network, XipLink announced June 2.     The XipLink...

[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] Swedish Space Corp. (SSC) has been awarded a $200,000 contract to provide S-band ranging service to the Korean Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) for its Communications, Ocean and...

[Satellite TODAY 06-03-10] According to Satellite TODAY’s May 2010 Web poll results, 67.9 percent of respondents said they believe commercial launch capacity will increase in the future as a result...

[Satellite TODAY 06-02-10] Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has been selected to build the Anik G1 satellite for Telesat, the companies announced June 1.    The Anik G1 multi-mission spacecraft will be...

[Satellite TODAY 06-02-10] DigitalGlobe has secured a one-year Crisis Event Service (CES) imagery agreement with the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), DigitalGlobe announced June 1.     CES, launched by DigitalGlobe...

[Satellite TODAY 06-02-10] Eurovision has signed deals with SES World Skies and AsiaSat to provide satellite delivery of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, the operators announced June...

[Satellite TODAY 06-02-10] Intelsat’s Galaxy 15 satellite has safely passed SES’s AMC-11 satellite after Intelsat lost control of the spacecraft April 5 due to a solar storm anomaly, Intelsat confirmed...