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Thrane & Thrane Airtime A/S has signed the first customers for Inmarsat’s Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service. Thrane & Thrane Airtime, a BGAN distributor for Inmarsat, will provide Explorer Terminals and BGAN airtime to Geowireless, a South Carolina-based wireless Internet systems and disaster recovery provider, and Caribwebstar, a Cayman Islands-based provider of remote communication...

International Communications Group (ICG) announced Nov. 20 its appointment of Techstart LLC as authorized distributor for its Iridium-based satellite communication products in the defense and aerospace sector.

Newsat Ltd., a Melbourne, Australia-based satellite communications provider, has opened its new international sales office in Dubai’s Internet City.

A Russian Federation military satellite was deorbited and burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere Nov. 20 after its mission was completed, according to Xinhua. The latest of three Cosmos satellites launched by Russia this year, Cosmos-2423 was placed into orbit in September and accomplished its mission before burning up, according to a quoted Russian spokesman...

Boeing Co. has shipped the Measat-3 communications satellite to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a scheduled Dec. 11 launch aboard an International Launch Services (ILS) Proton rocket, Boeing announced Nov. 24. The 601 HP satellite was manufactured for and Measat Satellite Systems by Boeing Satellite Systems International and will carry 24 C-band and 24...

SES Astra has revealed details of its latest contract for a new satellite, stating that it has awarded the contract for the design and construction of its Astra-3B spacecraft to Astrium. Astra 3B will be a Ku- and Ka-band satellite designed to distribute both direct-to-home (DTH) broadcast services and two-way broadband services across Europe. Astra...

NASA announced Nov. 21 that its Mars Global Surveyor has likely finished operations after a 10-year mission, the longest one sent to the red planet. The spacecraft has not communicated with Earth since Nov. 2, days short of the anniversary of its Nov. 7, 1996, launch. Its camera had returned more than 240,000 images to...

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. announced Nov. 21 that it and a selling stockholder plan to sell 7 million ordinary shares of stock in an underwritten public offering. In a registration statement to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company planned to sell up to 4,666,667 with up to 2,333,333 ordinary shares offered by York...

The United States Air Force has awarded Boeing Co. with a $674,116,428 cost-plus-award fee contract providing for Delta 4 launch capability for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) rocket program. The plan includes launch and range operations for Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.; mission integration, mission unique development...

Orbital Sciences Corp. announced Nov. 20 its selection by Netherlands-based SES New Skies to design, build and deliver the NSS-9 commercial communications satellite. Slated for location at 183 degrees East longitude, the satellite will be capable of deployment to other locations in the SES fleet. The NSS-9 satellite order is the 18th Orbital geosynchronous commercial...