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Camping World will sell and service King Controls’  new King-Dome line of high definition-ready automatic and in-motion satellite television antennas, King Controls announced Jan. 15. King Controls is a Bloomington, Minn.-based manufacturer of mobile satellite antenna systems for the recreational vehicles industry. Camping World, of Bowling Green, Ky., is a direct marketer and specialty retailer...

Lockheed Martin has received a contract from Inmarsat to develop enabling technology for Inmarsat’s mobile satellite network, Lockheed Martin announced Jan. 15. Under the $36.5 million contract, Lockheed Martin will deliver and install three network control center/gateways that will provide connectivity to public terrestrial networks. Inmarsat plans to implement a global network in 2008 that...

Final preparations are underway for the launch of the NSS-8 satellite, SES New Skies announced. Sea Launch is scheduled to place the satellite into orbit Jan. 25 using a Zenit-3SL rocket. NSS-8 is a Boeing 702 spacecraft carrying 56 C-band and 36 Ku-band transponders and is designed to replace NSS-703 at 57° East longitude.

Inspired as a response to rumors of a potential merger between XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio, law students at George Washington University have created a consumer advocacy group dedicated to ensuring competition in the digital satellite radio industry. Announced Jan. 12, the Consumer Coalition for Competition in Satellite Radio was created on behalf...

Norsat International Inc. has issued 1 million common shares of stock and nearly 533,000 non-transferable common share purchase warrants in connection with its Employee Share Ownership Plan that was unveiled in December, the company announced. Norsat generated gross proceeds of nearly $480,000 through the transaction. Subscribers received one-half of one non-transferable share purchase warrant for...

Interstate Electronics Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of L-3 Communications Corp., has been awarded a pre-production contract by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for 3-dimensional locators using Integrated GPS Indoor Navigation Technology developed by Interstate Electronics, the company announced Jan. 10 . The contract, awarded by the by Advanced Research Project Agency, is an...

Ondas Media, a European satellite media company, has signed a deal with Dutch broadcaster Talpa Radio B.V as Ondas looks to build its satellite radio business in Europe. Talpa Radio is part of Talpa Media Holding, a privately owned group that also has a TV channel, content development and production facilities and a music publishing...

Virgin America will offer EchoStar Communications Corp.’s Dish Network on all flights, the airline announced Jan. 12. Pending government approval, the airline hopes to introduce domestic service this spring. The service will provide passengers with live Dish Network programming, pay-per-view movies, music entertainment, games and meals on-demand.

The Skynet 5A military telecommunications satellite has been delivered to French Guiana in advance of its launch aboard an Arianespace Ariane 5 in late February. Skynet, scheduled to be launched along with India’s Insat 4B telecommunications satellite, is the first in a series of next-generation secure communications satellites for the British armed forces, NATO and...

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) will provide a data reception and transmission subsystem that will be used in an advanced solution for two Yamal-300 satellites for Russian operator Gascom. The contract, valued at about $14 million, was awarded to MDA by Japan’s Sumitomo Corp., which is providing an antenna and repeater system for Gascom...