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Thuraya releases new portable
A new A-5 sized 444 kbps broadband terminal with advanced video streaming capability is the new competitive product launched by Thuraya, world leading mobile satellite operator, this week, as part of its ongoing products innovation strategy. The new terminal, among the smallest in the satellite broadband category, is considered to be the most efficient for its size in terms of speed offering and video streaming capability...

SES ASTRA signs first deal at new orbital position
SES ASTRA has signed a long-term agreement with a company representing the independent German cable operators to transmit digital Free-to-Air TV to their networks...

Globecomm Systems awarded infrastructure contract from Canadian mobile operator FIRST Networks
Globecomm Systems has been awarded a mobile infrastructure contract from First Networks Operations Inc. (FIRST), a Canadian mobile telecommunications operator...

EchoStar XI deploys solar arrays
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) announced that the EchoStar XI satellite, built for DISH Network, deployed its solar arrays early this morning, following its successful launch last night from Sea Launch's Odyssey Launch Platform on the equator in the Pacific Ocean...

Advanced experimentation and analysis capability meets MOD and industry needs
Since the opening of The Portal in July 2007, QinetiQ and The Boeing Company have conducted a broad spectrum of training events, demonstrations and classified experiments in support of numerous UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) and industry programs. The Portal has successfully supported more than 130 separate activities ranging in scale from half-day workshops to multi-week experiments, and has met all requirements...

SES ASTRA orders new satellite
SES ASTRA has awarded the construction of a new satellite, ASTRA 1N, to the European satellite manufacturer Astrium. The spacecraft is scheduled for launch in 2011 and will be positioned at ASTRA`s prime orbital position 19.2 degrees East. It will mainly serve the German, French and Spanish markets, and provide customers with continuous operating and back-up satellite capacity at this key location...

NSSL appointed Tier one distribution partner for ThurayaIP

NSSL, the international satellite communications service provider, has been selected as one of the first Tier one providers of the new ThurayaIP services...

Intelsat announces proposed offerings of senior notes and repayment of loans
Intelsat announced that its subsidiary, Intelsat Corporation (“Intelsat Corp”), intends to offer an aggregate principal amount of approximately $658.1 million of 9¼% senior notes due 2014 and an aggregate principal amount of approximately $580.7 million of 9¼% senior notes due 2016 (together, the “notes”), the net proceeds of which, together with cash on hand, will be used to repay in full Intelsat Corp’s outstanding senior unsecured backstop loan credit agreements (the “Backstop Loans”)...

Chinese satellite market to generate 5.3 percent rate of growth despite regulatory and business hurdles
NSR today released its newest market survey and forecast report: China Satellite Markets: Assessment of Commercial Satellite Transponder Demand in China, Hong Kong and Macau. This study offers the most in-depth and detailed assessment of commercial C- and Ku-band transponder demand in China available to the industry and drills down into the details of the major market and application trends in the region...

BANTEL installs a network of iDirect Series 3000 routers
VT iDirect announced that TELECOMUNICACIONES BANTEL (BANTEL) has installed a network of iDirect Series 3000 Remote Satellite Routers, enabling Corporacion Digitel (Digitel) to expand cellular access within Venezuela by backhauling GSM traffic over satellite. BANTEL, a leading service provider in Venezuela, installed the new network on its existing iDirect Series 15000 Universal Satellite Hub...