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The newly established Florida Space Institute–a partnership between the Spaceport Florida Authority (SFA), several local universities and the NASA-sponsored Florida Space Grant Consortium–announced this month it won a $500,000 grant...

Odyssey Telecommunications, the Big Low-Earth-orbit venture backed by TRW Inc. [TRW] and Teleglobe Inc., announced its first local partnership this month, a memorandum of understanding with China Telecommunications Broadcast Satellite...

DirecTv Inc. [GMH] announced it is the first DBS operator to reach the Caribbean, with service launches this month in Barbados as well as Trinidad & Tobago. Caribbean Communications Network...

State-owned operator China Telecommunications Broadcast Satellite Corp. (Chinasat) selected Loral Space & Communications Ltd. [LOR] unit Space Systems/ Loral (SS/L) to build Chinasat 8, a hybrid satellite. The satellite, which...

Cambridge, Ontario-based Com Dev International Ltd. received a $5 million contract this month from Alcatel Espace to supply switches, multiplexers and related equipment for Alcatel’s Multimedia Asia (M2A) satellite payload...

HONOLULU–As long-awaited mobile satellite systems edge closer to enter- ing service and bringing telecommunica tions capabilities to even the most remote villages, a new challenge awaits: Combining local loop systems...

PanAmSat Corp. [SPOT] broadcast the 32nd Annual Pediatric Postgraduate Course Teleconference from Miami to more than 60 sites around Latin America, from Jan. 21-23. PanAmSat has been working with the...

Hot on the heels of last month’s launch of the third Inmarsat 3 satellite, the KPN Group, the Dutch telecommunications giant, has launched a worldwide campaign to promote its Altus...

The Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association (SBCA), working with a local retailer from Meade, Kansas, announced Jan. 15 it petitioned the FCC to preempt an "aggressive" Meade ordinance limiting satellite...

Haven’t seen enough DBS ads recently? Philadelphia-based Primestar Partners plans to uncork a $150 million marketing campaign this spring to lead up to its planned launch of 65 additional channels...