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Thuraya signed a service provider agreement making China Satellite Communications Global Ltd. the sole service provider and distributor of Thuraya products and services throughout China, Thuraya announced April 22. Thuraya...

International Communications Group (ICG) has been awarded a General Services Administration (GSA) contract to cover 197 individual ICG products including CTUs, data routers, Iridium Communications Systems, ground tactical equipment and...

Ericsson has received the go-ahead from competition authorities to acquire all outstanding shares in Tandberg Television, Ericcson announced April 23. All conditions in the terms and conditions set in the...

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) named Steve Soroka vice president of enterprise operations, the Reston, Va.-based company announced April 23. Soroka will be responsible for overall direction and management of MSV’s...

A Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) spacecraft scheduled to be placed into orbit in April 2008 has completed thermal vacuum tests at Lockheed Martin’s Sunnyvale, Calif., facility, the U.S. Air...

Orbital Sciences Corp. posted first quarter revenues of $228.2 million, up 19 percent from revenues of $192.2 million in the same period a year ago, the company announced April 19....

China’s ocean monitoring satellite, Ocean-1B, has completed on-orbit testing, Xinhua reported April 20. The satellite, which monitors the color and temperature of the ocean, was placed into orbit April 11...

A payload of 14 satellites was delivered on April 17 in the first launch of a Dnepr rocket since a July 2006 failure, Russian officials reported. Egyptian, Saudi and U.S....

Symmetricom Inc., a provider of precise-time and frequency technologies to accelerate deployment and enable management of next-generation networks, rolled out its 9900 series of hybrid space crystal oscillators comprised of...

GlobeCast successfully provided the first-ever live, high-definition (HD) contribution service from Saint Peter’s Square to Centro Televisivo Vaticano (CTV), the official television station of the Vatican, GlobeCast announced April 19....