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[11-07-07 – Satellite Today]  DirecTV Group Inc. has increased third quarter revenues 18 percent compared to the third quarter of 2006, the company announced Nov. 7.     The company reported...

[11-07-07 – Satellite Today] Premiere, the German pay-TV operator, saw strong subscriber growth in the three months to the end of September. This was one of the highlights of its...

[11-07-07 – Satellite Today]  Northrup Grumman Corp. has named John R. Landon its new vice president of missiles, technology and space programs, the company announced Nov. 7.     Landon joined...

[11-06-07 – Satellite Today] Boeing Co. has demonstrated its "one button” start-up U.S. ground station, which will be an essential element of its Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) offering, the...

[11-06-07 – Satellite Today] CVG Inc. will provide a satellite-based broadband communications solution for the U.S. Coast Guard, CVG announced Nov. 6.     CVG will install a pair of Ku-band...

[11-06-07 – Satellite Today] Five Northrop Grumman engineers received a patent for a payload positioning boom, the company announced Nov. 6.     The boom, which attaches the payload to the...

11-06-07 – Satellite Today]  The Skynet 5B and Star One C1 spacecraft have been fitted to their Ariane 5 launch vehicle in advance of a scheduled Nov. 9 mission, Arianespace...

[11-5-07 – Satellite Today]  DataPath Inc. has been awarded $2.9 million to upgrade DataPath terminals used in the U.S. Marine Corps Support Wide Area Network (SWAN) program, the company announced...

[11-5-07 – Satellite Today] Xtar LLC., a joint venture between Loral Space and Communication and Hisdesat, has received a contract from the U.S. General Services Administration to provide information technology...

[11-5-07 – Satellite Today]  Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) has officially broken ground to expand Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), which will serve as the primary launch site for SpaceX’s...