Satellite News

Canal Digital, the Nordic direct-to-home operator, reported slow subscriber growth in the 2006…

Mercury Computer Systems Inc. received an $8.6 million contract from an unnamed company to provide a communication platform for a commercial ground-based satellite beam- forming…

Sarantel Group PLC dropped its revenue forecast for the company’s 2006 fiscal year after being informed by XM Satellite Radio…

Raytheon Co. and NASA completed data transfer and system compatibility testing for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite…

Trimble acquired and tracked the signal from Europe’s Galileo test satellite using a prototype receiver that can also receive signals from the U.S. GPS and Russia’s Glonass…

Iridium Satellite LLC reported revenues of $53.6 million in its 2006 second quarter, finishing the period with 159,000 subscribers…

XM Satellite Radio appointed Nate Davis to the newly created position of president and chief operating officer, the company announced July 24. Davis has been a member of…

France Telecom signed an agreement to sell its stake in France Telecom…