Focus - Military Platforms vs Commercial Lease - May - week 3 Don't buy it, rent it! The military is increasingly looking at leasing privately-owned satellite capacity to meet its global communications needs. Giovanni Verlini, Editor of Satellite Evolution Global, spoke with Dr. Denis Curtin, Chief Operating Officer (COO) of XTAR, LLC, about the advantages represented by commercial lease. Click here for the full story

Arianespace to launch W2M satellite
Eutelsat Communicationsand Arianespace today announced the signature of a contract for the launch of the W2M satellite. The satellite will be launched by an Ariane 5 in the second quarter of 2008 from the Guiana Space Center, Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana...

SES ASTRA broadcasts German HDTV channel ANIXE HD
SES ASTRA has concluded a new contract with the German Anixe GmbH & Co KG for the transmission of its HDTV channel. The programme ANIXE HD starts to broadcast today in high resolution and unencrypted from the main orbital position 19.2(degrees) East...

Lockheed Martin receives US$28 million contract for ICBM re-entry system upgrade
Lockheed Martin has announced that it has received a $28 million contract modification from Northrop Grumman Corporation to provide hardware components for the full-rate production phase of the Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Safety Enhanced Reentry Vehicle (SERV) program...

Lockheed Martin appoints Ambrose to head new Surveillance and Navigation Systems organization
Lockheed Martin has named Richard F. Ambrose to be the lead executive of a newly formed Surveillance and Navigation Systems line of business within its Space Systems Company...

DIRECTV activates HD local channel service in the Phoenix DMA
DIRECTV, Inc has announced that it has begun offering local HD channels via satellite to customers in the Phoenix DMA. The following local TV channels will be available: NXV/ABC, KPHO/CBS, KSAZ/FOX, and KPNX/NBC...

Telenor Satellite Services appoints Robert M. Baker to head US operations
Telenor Satellite Services, a subsidiary of Telenor of Norway announced the appointment of Robert M. (Bob) Baker as president of Telenor Satellite Services' operations and holdings companies in the United States...


SWE-DISH and Saab demonstrate an affordable satellite communication on the move platform
SWE-DISH Satellite Systems AB and Saab AB, through its business unit Saab Systems, have merged existing technologies and commercial of the shelf components into a demonstrator for an affordable Satcom-On-The-Move platform...

Radyne's Tiernan division wins industry award
Radyne Corporation has announced that Broadcast Engineering Magazine had honored its Tiernan HE4000 SD/HDTV encoder with its Pick Hit award for 2006. The Pick Hit award is granted each year to the most innovative new products displayed at the annual convention of the National Association of Broadcasters in Las Vegas...


Globecomm Systems addresses the growing Enterprise Television Market
Globecomm Systems a global provider of end-to-end satellite-based communications solutions, has signed an agreement with Scientific Atlanta, a Cisco company, to address the rapidly growing needs for applications for the enterprise network market...


Gilat completes deployment of SkyEdge VSAT network for Telefonica Brazil
Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd has completed deployment of a SkyEdge broadband VSAT satellite network to Telecomunicacoes de Sao Paulo (TELESP), the largest subsidiary of Brazil’s Telefonica Group -responsible for fixed telephony and data services in the district...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. awarded a $6.4 million contract for communications jamming high power amplifiers
Comtech Telecommunications announced today that its New York-based subsidiary, Comtech PST Corp., has received a $6.4 million contract for broadband, solid state, high power RF microwave amplifier systems from a major international customer...

Telenor Satellite Services fuels BGAN sales with free airtime program
Telenor Satellite Services announced that all Telenor Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service activations made in May and June 2006 will earn users $1,000 of free airtime...


Shin Satellite Plc. announces a sharp rise in sales and service revenues
Shin Satellite Plc., Asia’s leading satellite operator, announced a sharp rise in sales and service revenues in the first quarter of 2006, attributed to increased sales of its conventional satellite business, rising sales of IPSTAR user terminals and improved performance of subsidiaries...


AAE Systems awarded teleport contract
AAE Systems has announced a major contract award for system and network architecture design services, as well as the supply, installation, and management of the first phase for a Teleport in the Persian Gulf region in September 2005...

VNPT awards Lockheed Martin contract to deliver Vietnam's first turnkey telecommunications satellite system
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has been awarded a contract by Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT) of Vietnam to provide a turnkey telecommunications satellite system with operations slated to begin in the second quarter of 2008...

CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum, 19 June 2006, Singapore
The CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum 2006, Asia's premier satellite event, will be held in Singapore on Monday, 19 June, one day before the CommunicAsia trade show in Singapore. The Forum will address the impact on satellite markets of mobile TV, IPTV services and the roll-out of HDTV while navigating a complex regulatory environment. DTH operators from some of the fastest growing markets in the world - India, Indonesia, Korea and Malaysia - will share their insights. For further information on speakers or regsitration please click here

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