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Ciel II launched successfully
The Ciel Satellite Group announced that its Ciel II communications satellite roared into space onboard an International Launch Services (ILS) Proton M/Breeze M launch vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 13:43:00 UTC/GMT/8:43 a.m. EST Wednesday. The Ciel II communications satellite will be providing high definition television services into the North American market; the anchor customer is DISH Network Corporation...

Integration of the HOT BIRD 9 payload is completed
The upper payload component for Arianespace's upcoming dual-satellite Ariane 5 mission is now complete at Europe's Spaceport, following the encapsulation of HOT BIRDT 9 inside the launcher's payload fairing...

Christmas broadcasts direct from the Holy Land
SatLink Communications Ltd. will make the 2008 Christmas holiday brighter around the globe with a full-array of production facilities and services located throughout the Holy Land, including coverage of the Church of the Nativity’s Midnight Mass and Manger Square...

Glowlink wins competitive contract from FAA
Glowlink has been awarded a competitive contract by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for a satellite Carrier Monitoring System (CMS) to manage FAA satellite communications traffic in Alaska and the continental United States...

ART renews capacity lease
The Arab Radio and Television (ART) Network has renewed for a further 12 years its capacity lease on the HOT BIRD™ 8 satellite operated by Eutelsat Communications. One of the leading producers of premium Arabic family programming and entertainment worldwide, ART has been an anchor client at Eutelsat's premium HOT BIRD™ video neighbourhood since 1998...

Arrowhead announces first X-band managed services
Arrowhead Global Solutions, the government services division of CapRock Communications, is launching the industry’s first managed network services based on commercial X-band satellites. The announcement is part of a strategic initiative to provide the next generation of advanced satellite communications services for the military and intelligence community...

SES ASTRA signs cooperation agreement with Dutch Agricultural Federation
SES ASTRA has signed a cooperation agreement with LTO Commerce, the sales division of the Dutch Federation of Agriculture and Horticulture, to provide its members with SES ASTRA’s satellite-based two-way broadband service ASTRA2Connect. The cooperation is supported by the Chairman of the Dutch Parliamentary Commission for Agriculture...

Gascom re-branding

Gascom has been renamed to Gazprom Space Systems. The new name of the subsidiary was approved by the Order of the Chairman of the Gazprom board Mr. Aleksey Miller...

Vizada and Eclipse join forces to provide superior mobile satellite service to aero community
Vizada and Eclipse have signed an agreement to jointly cater for the mobile satellite communications needs of the aeronautical community. The two partners have begun providing services to the French Navy, including the activation of the SwiftBroadband service on its Dassault Falcon 50M maritime surveillance aircraft...