Satellite News

SES Americom announced that it will cease providing its IPTV service in North America – IP-PRIME – by 31 July 2009.
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Satlynx, a provider of satellite communication services throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa, has agreed to a multi-year deal for the provision of 20 Mbps on the Africa IPsys/DVB platform aboard the NSS-10 satellite.
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SES Astra has signed a reseller agreement with the satellite equipment distributor Eurosat for the marketing and sales of its satellite based interactive broadband service Astra2Connect.

The Arab Radio and Television (ART) Network has renewed for a further 12 years its capacity lease on the Hotbird 8 satellite operated by Eutelsat Communications.
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Raytheon Company, Northrop Grumman Corp. and the U.S. National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Integrated Program Office successfully completed the next phase of compatibility testing for the NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP).

SES S.A.announced a multi-year agreement to provide satellite capacity to EchoStar Corporation.

Mobile Satellite Ventures LP (MSV) announced that the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has granted communications licenses for the two new MSV gateways in the U.S. being built to support the company’s next-generation integrated satellite-terrestrial communication network for North America.

Arrowhead Global Solutions has concluded a multi-year agreement for 90MHz of capacity on the upcoming NSS-12 satellite. Arrowhead will use the capacity to support U.S. government needs over the Middle East and East Africa.