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SES Global has added Robert Ross and Ashok Ganguly to its board of directors, the company announced. Ross served as CEO of New Skies Satellites…
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Inmarsat is teaming with Instituto Ilhas do Brasil (the Institute of Brazilian Islands) to bring modern communications to some of Brazil’s most isolated offshore communities. Inmarsat is offering use of its Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service to monitor 1,000 islands off the coast of Brazil…
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Mobile Satellite Ventures passed a critical design review milestone for its MSV-1 satellite that had been set by the…
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Alcatel-Lucent will provide network integration services as well as equipment, engineering and implementation services for a trial of mobile interactive media services that ICO Global Communications Ltd. plans to begin in 2008, ICO announced July…
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Minority shareholders of ImageSat International N.V., which operates the EROS commercial imaging satellites, have filed a claim in the U.S. Court for the Southern District of New York against ImageSat, Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd., Elbit Systems and certain current and former officers and directors of ImageSat.
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Satelites Mexicanos recently suspended its sale after it received only two takeover offers, both for less than the US$500 million that the company had hoped for.
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NASA’s Stardust and Deep Impact spacecraft, both of which successfully completed their primary missions to two different comets, have been assigned new tasks.
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Nigcomsat-1, launched in May, has successfully completed in-orbit testing (IOT), which started on 1 June.
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