Satellite News

News Corp.’s shareholders on April 3 approved a plan to give up the company’s 38.5 percent stake in DirecTV Group Inc. plus $550 million in cash in exchange for Liberty Media Corp. and its 16.3 percent stake in the media company. More than…

XM Canada and Rogers Communications reached an agreement to provide XM Canada content across the Rogers wireless, cable and Internet platforms, Rogers announced April 3…

Pending a meeting this week in Ukraine of the Sea Launch Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB), and based on company estimates, the launch provider is anticipating its return to flight in October, Sea Launch reported April 3. The company anticipates the FROB’s conclusion by June, with corrective implementation…

The European Commission (EC) has given the green light to the Thales acquisition of Alcatel’s stakes in Alcatel Alenia Space and Telespazio. “This merger creates a complex vertical structure in an…

Arianespace will launch the latest D-series satellite for Optus in 2009 on a Soyuz launcher, Arianespace announced…

Following the recent closing of a transaction between GE and SES, Satlynx is now a subsidiary of GE.

Vietnam’s Space Technology Institute, which is mainly involved in developing satellite technologies, equipment, remote sensing technology and application, and space dynamics, was inaugurated yesterday.

The European Commission has cleared under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition by Thales of Alcatel’s shareholdings in Alcatel Alenia Space (AAS) and Telespazio, currently jointly controlled by Alcatel and Finmeccanica.