Satellite News

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) won another in a series of patents issued to the company for its advanced Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC)…

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. will provide a Skyedge broadband satellite hub station and VSAT terminals to…

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued new grants of authority for three XM radios with FM transmitters…

The merger of Sky Brasil and DirecTV Brasil has been completed and DirecTV Group Inc. has acquired the interests of News Corp. and Liberty Media in Sky Brasil, DirecTV Group announced Aug. 24. DirecTV now owns about 74 percent of Sky Brasil, with Globo Comunicacao e…

Satellite radio service provider Worldspace has received a deficiency letter from Nasdaq indicating that the company is not in compliance with the minimum US$50 million market value for continued listing on the stock exchange.

Talks between BCE and potentials buyers of the company’s Telesat subsidiary have broken down, the Globe and Mail reports. BCE is now pressing ahead with an initial public offering, according to the report.

DirecTV has apparently silently put its DirecTV 6 satellite into graveyard orbit, tracking data show.

L-3 Communications announced that its Telemetry-West (L-3 Telemetry-West) division has been awarded a US$9.9 million contract by the U.S. Air Force to provide the next-generation, crypto-modernisation-compliant encryptor and decryptor for satellite telemetry, tracking and control (TT&C).