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Avail Media signed a contract to offer Intelsat’s MPEG-4 content aggregation and delivery service – Intelsat IPTV – beginning in the second quarter, Intelsat announced Feb. 20. Intelsat IPTV combines PanAmSat’s satellite fleet with Intelsat’s IPTV expertise. Avail Media will use the Intelsat IPTV service to provide telco operators, fiber-to-the-home providers and independent cable operators...

Sea Launch’sOdyssey Launch Platform returned to its home port in Long Beach, Calif., Feb. 16. Plans for repairs are proceeding along with the investigation into the Jan. 30 launch failure resulting in the loss of SES New Skies’ NSS-8 satellite.

According to Ondas Media, which plans to launch satellite radio services throughout Europe, 68 percent of potential users are interested in the satellite media and radio service. The survey of 7,000 potential users from seven countries also found that 86 percent said they felt Ondas Media’s service "was new and different." This is the third...

Turkish satellite pay-TV operator Digiturk has teamed with httv to broadcast a new range of interactive services. Digiturk will use httv’s B2Stream, a compact digital video broadcasting data streamer and real time multiplexer that allows network operators and content producers to deliver interactive content to set-top boxes in real time through a company’s existing digital...

DayPort, a content management solution specialist, has signed a fresh deal with U.K. satellite pay-TV operator, BSkyB. Europe’s leading satellite pay-TV operator with over eight million subscribers, BSkyB will use DayPort’s content management systems for all new media platforms. DayPort has secured an order from Sky to expand the current Carbon Publish solution at Sky...

Qinetiq has signed a deal with Sciemus, a U.K.-based space insurance company aiming to increase its standing after a promising start in 2006. The deal will see Qinetiq provide a new round of technical advice on spacecraft reliability and risk analysis. The deal covers the operation, licensing, maintenance and continued development of Qinetiq’s Space Risk...

Eutelsat has announced a significant move as it aims to boost its broadband presence in Europe. It is teaming up with ViaSat to jointly offer an “affordable, high-quality” consumer broadband service in underserved markets in Europe. The deal will see Eutelsat initially roll out in June a broadband service to each Germany, Switzerland, Spain and...

Boeing Co. has completed on-orbit handover of the MEASAT-3 satellite to MEASAT Satellite Systems, Boeing announced Feb. 19. The transfer of the Boeing 601 satellite to MEASAT followed on-orbit testing to ensure the spacecraft systems were functioning as designed. Launched on Dec.11, 2006, by an International Launch Services Proton/Breeze M rocket from Kazakhstan, MEASAT-3 will...

SES Global announced its full year results for 2006, which saw its overall revenues increase over 28 percent to 1.6 billion euros ($2.10 billion) for the year compared to 2005. In terms of its overall net profit for 2006, SES Global posted an overall profit of 435.8 million euros ($572.78 million), an increase of 14...

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