Focus - Satellite Terminals - April - week 1 Q&A with Lars Jehrlander, CEO of SWE-DISH For this month’s Question and Answers (Q&A) session, Giovanni Verlini, Editor of Satellite Evolution Asia (SEA), spoke with Lars Jehrlander, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of SWE-DISH. Click here for the full story

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SES Astra announces new contract with French Pay TV Group
SES ASTRA, an SES GLOBAL company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg stock exchange: SESG), has announced today a new contract with French Pay-TV group CANAL+...

Eutelsat survey measures 2.8 million digital DTH Hot Bird homes in France
Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) today announced the topline results for France of its 2006 Survey on satellite and cable reception of television channels broadcast from its key video neighbourhoods for the French market...

Telenor Satellite Services and Addvalue Technologies sign satellite airtime agreement
Telenor Satellite Services, a subsidiary of Telenor of Norway (Oslo Stock Exchange: TEL and NASDAQ: TELN), and Addvalue Technologies Ltd, today signed a comprehensive BGAN satellite airtime agreement that will enable the two companies to bundle Addvalue's SABRE 1 BGAN terminal with Telenor airtime...

Irdeto supports the Coral Consortium DRM Interoperability Initiative
Irdeto, the proven expert in content security for Digital TV, IPTV and mobile and a subsidiary of the multinational media group Naspers (NASDAQ: NPSN and JSE: NPN), today announced it has joined Coral Consortium, an industry-wide technology initiative whose goal is to deliver an open, voluntary standard for interoperability between digital rights management (DRM) technologies for consumer devices and services...

Globecomm Systems awarded satellite infrastructure contract from a U.S. Government Agency valued at approximately $1.1 million
Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM), a global provider of end-to-end satellite-based communications solutions, today announced that the Company has been awarded a satellite infrastructure contract from a U.S. Government agency valued at approximately $1.1 million...

Alcatel to pursue the transfer of its satellite activities
Alcatel (Paris : CGEP.PA and NYSE : ALA) is pleased that the Board of Thales has approved the acquisition in principle of its satellite subsidiaries, its railway signalling business and its integration and services activities for mission-critical systems. Alcatel would strengthen its position as the reference shareholder of Thales, with a 21.6% stake, while Groupe Industriel Marcel Dassault will keep its 5% share and the French state will remain the majority shareholder with 27.1%. Furthermore, the industrial and commercial partnership between Alcatel and Thales will be strengthened...


U-Mark, a new teleshopping satellite channel to join ARABSAT
The Arab Satellite Communications Organization (ARABSAT) has signed an agreement to include U-Mark satellite channel within the Arabsat primary neighborhood of satellite TV channels...

Globalstar awards Alcatel Alenia Space a study contract to replace its satellite constellation
Globalstar has awarded Alcatel Alenia Space a study contract for the design of a new satellite constellation aiming at replacing Globalstar’s first generation satellites..


Arianespace's heavy-lift Ariane 5 ECA is fitted with its powerful upper stage
Preparations are continuing for Arianespace's second dual-satellite payload mission of 2006, with the Ariane 5 ECA heavy-lift launcher now fitted with its increased-performance ESC-A upper stage...

InterContinental Hotels Group adds new advanced network management services from Gilat's Spacenet subsidiary and extends satellite network contract
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. (Nasdaq: GILTF) today announced that Six Continents Hotels, Inc. (SCH), a member of InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) (LON:IHG, NYSE:IHG (ADRs)), the world's largest hotel group by number of rooms, has extended its enterprise network services contract with Spacenet Inc. through December 31, 2008. In addition to the extension of the contract for Spacenet's satellite networking services at more than 2,500 locations across the United States and Canada, SCH will also utilize Spacenet's SmartCare(TM) enterprise-grade network management services...


DIRECT 8, launched by France's Bollore Group, inks contract with Eutelsat
Direct 8, the new general entertainment channel launched on 31 March 2005 by the Bolloré Group through France's Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) network, has concluded a multi-satellite agreement with Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) for free-to-air broadcasting. The channel's objective is to consolidate its audience in France and initiate its international expansion into other countries in Europe and into Africa...


Sea Launch departs home port for JCSAT-9 mission
The Odyssey Launch Platform and the Sea Launch Commander departed Home Port in Long Beach, Calif., this week, in preparation for Sea Launch’s second mission of the year. The Sea Launch team plans to launch the JCSAT-9 communications satellite on April 11, at the opening of a 34-minute launch window, at 4:30 pm Pacific Daylight Time (23:30 GMT)...


SCOTTY wins Eurocopter order for satellite communication
SCOTTY’s video and data communication solution for helicopters will be implemented in 10 helicopters of the German Army. The system is currently being presented for the first time in South America at the International Air and Space Fair, FIDAE 2006 in Santiago de Chile, and end of April for the first time in Asia at the Defense Systems Asia in Kuala Lumpur...

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