Satellite News

Iridium Satellite has expanded its value-added partner program, adding three manufacturers and a reseller, Iridium announced Oct. 25. The new value-added manufacturers are Fastwave Communications of Perth, Australia; Uplogix of Austin…

Nallatech, a manufacturer of high-performance field programmable gate array (FPGA) components, announced its development of a test…

General Motors of Canada Ltd. delivered its 50,000th vehicle with factory-installed XM Satellite Radio, the…

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has completed initial functional verification. and calibration and verification tests of the Advanced Land…

Investment firm Highland Capital Management LP has offered to purchase $300 million in Loral stock “on terms that are more beneficial than those offered” to another investment firm. Highland delivered a letter to Loral Space & Communications Inc. offering alternatives to a recently announced stock deal…

Sea Launch plans to perform its fifth mission of 2006, placing the XM-4 satellite into orbit for XM Satellite Radio Oct. 26. Liftoff of the Zenit-3SL vehicle from Sea Launch’s floating platform at the equator is scheduled for…

Charges related to the shut down of the Connexion satellite Internet unit pushed Boeing Co.’s profit lower in the 2006 third quarter, the company announced Oct. 25. Boeing posted a profit of $694 million in the quarter which closed Sept. 30, down from earnings of $1 billion in the same period in 2005…

Japanese satellite broadcaster Sky Perfect Communications Inc. will acquire satellite communications company JSAT Corp. and create a holding company next spring, the Nihon Keizai business daily reported.