Satellite News

GCI, the largest telecommunications company in Alaska, announced that it successfully transitioned all of its rural telecommunication services to the Galaxy 18 satellite.
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Eutelsat Communications and TelDaFax Communications GmbH announced an agreement for the immediate distribution of the Tooway bidirectional satellite broadband service in Germany.
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Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) announced plans to further extend its current generation network voice and mobile data services through 31 December 2012, and will offer these services on its next generation hybrid satellite-terrestrial communications network slated to be launched in 2010.
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SES Astra announced that its subsidiary ND SatCom has been selected as a prime contractor for the U.S. Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR) in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Intelsat General Corporation has been awarded a contract by DRS Technologies Inc. to provide X-band satellite connectivity, fibre and teleport services in the Middle East using Intelsat infrastructure and the Skynet satellite fleet owned and operated by Paradigm Secure Communications.
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NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter again received information from the Phoenix Mars Lander Tuesday evening and relayed the information to Earth after an earlier glitch with the orbiter’s UHF radio system.
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SES New Skies said it has renewed its support – through the provision of satellite capacity – of The Nature Conservancy, a conservation organisation working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters.
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Thaicom PCL (formerly Shin Satellite) reported a rise in the number of television channels and telecommunication services during the first quarter of 2008.
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