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Virgin Media, which competes against direct-to-home operator BSkyB in the United Kingdom, is…

The European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA signed an agreement in March that extends a long-standing cooperation agreement in the areas of satellite tracking, spacecraft navigation and mission operations, ESA announced April 2. The “Network and Operations Cross-Support” agreement covers…

Orbital Sciences Corporation celebrated the company’s first quarter-century in the space business today as it completed 25 years of operations since the enterprise’s founding on 2 April 1982.

The new Arabic version of FRANCE 24, which launched today at 14.00 UTC, is available through the Hotbird 8 broadcast satellite of Eutelsat Communications.

It is expected that the European Commission will issue a ruling this spring on use of the S-band spectrum which may pave the way to approval in Brussels.

General Electric company (GE) has become a major shareholder in AsiaSat holding approximately 34.1 percent of the issued share capital of the company subsequent to the completion of the Exchange Transaction and transfer of shares between GE and SES on 29 March 2007.

SES has closed the split-off transaction with GE signed on 13 February 2007 following satisfaction of the closing conditions.

ESA and NASA signed an agreement that extends the two agencies’ long-standing co-operation in the areas of satellite tracking, spacecraft navigation and mission operations.