Satellite News

British satellite TV broadcast provider BSkyB announced Jan. 2 that it has reached the 2 million customer mark following a year in which its number of Sky+ boxes had grown by more than 50 percent. The company reported that 2006 box…

Shin Satellite Public Company Ltd. announced Dec. 26 the completion of construction of IPStar gateways in the Chinese cities of Shanghai and Guangzhou. They join a previously completed gateway inaugurated in Beijing in May that will allow IPStar to launch its satellite Internet service…

Boeing received a $50 million contract for additional system design review work on the GPS 3 program from the U.S. Air Force, the company announced Jan. 2. The award…

TeleCommunication Systems Inc. (TCS) has received a U.S. government patent for technology that improves the ability of GPS to provide position information to users…

Audiovox Corp. unveiled its first portable XM Satellite Radio product, the company announced. The X2G100B Portable Satellite Radio and MP3 Player allows the user to listen to…

Measat Satellite Systems has taken control of the Measat-3 satellite following deployment of the satellite’s reflectors and solar arrays, the company announced Dec. 28. Measat’s Teleport and Broadcast Centre…

NDS, which supplies conditional access and middleware solutions to satellite pay-TV operators, has completed its acquisition of Jungo Ltd., NDS announced. NDS declared in December that it…