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MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. signed a strategic long-term agreement with Rocketplane Kistler to participate in the Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS) program, MacDonald Dettwiler announced Oct. 31. Rocketplane Kistler is one of the two finalists selected recently by NASA to develop a COTS demonstration model. The program is intended to demonstrate the viability of...

NDS, a supplier of middleware and conditional access services to direct-to-home operators, posted a 14 percent increase in revenues to $164 million in the third quarter, the company announced. Operating profits for the quarter, which closed Sept. 30, reached nearly $45 million, an increase of about 25 percent compared to the 2005 third quarter. The...

Iridium Satellite has announced two new initiatives aimed toward the U.S. military market. The company has approval to provide its 9601 data modem to the U.S. Department of Defense and other approved users through its contract with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). Based on the company’s short-burst data messaging service, the modem is already...

C-Com Satellite Systems Inc. announced Oct. 31 it has signed a sales partnership agreement with Ottawa-based OrbitIQ, which will assist C-com in identifying strategically located global sales partners for the C-com-manufactured Inetvu mobile platforms. "Many of OrbitIQ’s existing sales partners are ideally suited for reselling our Inetvu mobile satellite-based Internet products," Leslie Klein, president and...

Glowlink, a provider of satellite ground equipment, announced Oct. 31 that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office was granting its patent for satellite uplink power control (UPC) technology. The technology achieves fast and accurate control of transmit power for satellite traffic without causing transponder compression or saturation. Built into the company’s Model 3010 and Model...

GPSFlight, a provider of miniature wireless GPS telemetry, has been selected as a technology provider to Edwards Air Force Base for tracking base personnel and vehicles as they travel in and around the practice bombing range, the company announced Oct. 31. The GPSFlight tracking system is a combination of base stations, tracker units, and software...

Iridium Satellite LLC announced Oct. 30 that it has launched products and service offerings in Brazil through an alliance with Omnilink. Anatel, the Brazilian telecommunications agency, has confirmed operational authority for the full suite of Iridium products and services throughout the country. Omnilink, a maker of vehicle tracking systems based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, will...

Terrestar Networks Inc., a provider of 4G mobile communications networks, announced Oct. 30 a cooperative research and development agreement with the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), part of the U.S. Department of Defense. Under the agreement, which covers Terrestar’s developing North American Emergency Response Communications Network, Terrestar and DISA will conduct joint research and...

Porsche Cars of North America Inc. has signed a deal with XM Satellite Radio, while Bentley Motors Inc. has added Sirius Satellite Radio, in a pair of exclusive deals announced separately by Sirius and XM Oct. 30. XM has been available as a factory-installed feature for Porsche’s Cayenne models since 2005 and now will become...

Rainbow Media continues to expand the global reach of its Voom high-definition (HD) channel, signing a distribution agreement with Zonemedia (Zone Vision Networks) to sell Voom throughout much of Europe, Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia. Voom HD offers a lineup of programs selected from the company’s HD channels available in the United...