Satellite News

Eutelsat has confirmed that an Arabic version of the channel France 24 launched April 2 across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. French and English…

Comsat has activated a broadband satellite service in Venezuela through acquisition of its state-of-the-art Viasat Linkstar platform to operate…

Alcatel Alenia Space has been awarded a 9 million euro ($12.0 million) contract by Globalstar Inc. to upgrade the latter’s Control Network Facility, Alcatel Alenia Space announced April 3. The upgraded facility will enable Globalstar to…

Arqiva has completed its acquisition of BT Satellite Broadcast Services. Arqiva announced in November 2006 that it was going to acquire the company in a cash deal worth 25 million pounds ($49.32 million). The acquisition provides infrastructure to extend Arqiva’s operations – including…

EchoStar Communications Corp. and Google have entered into a partnership agreement to introduce the first automated system for buying, selling, delivering and measuring television ads on…

Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.), chairman of the House committee on science and technology, released an April 2 letter to President George W. Bush calling for the removal of Robert Cobb as inspector general of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Both Rep. Brad Miller (D-N.C.), chairman of…

Stating that the potential merger of Sirius Satelllite Radio and XM Satellite Radio “is the paradigm for why anti-trust laws and FCC competitive mandates were enacted in the first place,” Carmel Group…

Shareholders of News Corp. have approved a deal to swap the company’s stake in DirecTV Group Inc. with Liberty Media Corp. in exchange for US$550 million in cash and Liberty’s roughly US$11 billion stake in News Corp.