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Cathy Zhai, CFO of satellite solutions provider Norsat International Inc., resigned…
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High-definition coverage of the 2007 Tour de France will be provided by Orange Group subsidiary GlobeCast to French broadcaster France…
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In a major blow to its pay-TV aspirations, Sogecable, which operates the Digital+ direct-to-home satellite platform, has lost the blue-chip Spanish soccer rights in Spain to Mediapro, a Spanish audiovisual rights company. The broadcasting rights through the 2008-2009 season are held by AVS, which is 75…
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Orbcomm Inc. added 28,000 net billable subscribers in the 2007 second quarter, the company announced July 5…
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The European scientific community has submitted proposals for 50 new scientific missions following a call for proposals issued in March by the European Space Agency (ESA), the agency announced…
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Irdeto, a provider of conditional access services to direct-to-home operators, has acquired IDWay, Irdeto announced July 6. The companies began working together in 2006, and the acquisition of IDWay, which provides open software…
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Rocket: Proton M/Briz M; Payload: DirecTV 10; Date: 7 July 2004, 0116 UTC; Site: Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The mission lasted 9 hours and 8 minutes, before the Briz M upper stage placed the DirecTV 10 satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
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NASA’s Terra (EOS AM-1) spacecraft was moved recently in order to avoid a collision with a piece of debris that resulted from from China’s anti satellite test in January.
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