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AsiaSat announces interim results for H1 2006
Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Limited, Asia's leading satellite operator, has announced its 2006 interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2006...

Telenor Satellite Services acquires Satellite Communications Business of Norse Technology AS
Telenor Satellite Services, a subsidiary of Telenor of Norway announced that it has purchased the satellite communications activities of Norse Technology AS and additionally has acquired the majority of stock in Norwegian-based Norse Electronics AS...

Boeing completes GOES-P Weather Satellite Thermal Vacuum Testing
Boeing has announced that GOES-P, the third of three Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) built for NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has successfully completed testing designed to ensure that the spacecraft will operate in the extremely harsh environs of space...

Verso and Shiron Satellite Communications announce cellular-over-satellite alliance
Verso Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRSO), a global provider of next generation network solutions, and Shiron Satellite Communications Ltd., a global provider of advanced broadband satellite solutions, announced the successful completion of interoperability tests between Verso and the Shiron InterSKY 2-Way Satellite IP Broadband platform. The companies also announced the successful joint deployment of a GSM Backhaul over Satellite solution for a leading cellular operator in Colombia...

Successful launch of Koreasat 5 hybrid communications satellite
Alcatel Alenia Space announced the successful launch of Koreasat 5, the hybrid military and civilian communications satellite for South Korea. Koreasat 5 is jointly owned by the Agency for Defense Development and KT Corporation of South Korea...

Orbital Ships Optus D1 communications satellite to South American launch site
Orbital Sciences Corporation has confirmed that the company-built Optus D1 geosynchronous (GEO) communications satellite has been delivered to the space launch complex in Kourou, French Guiana, where it is scheduled to be launched aboard an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket in September. The Optus D1 satellite is the first of two high-power satellites that Orbital is building for Optus Networks of Australia...

ST Electronics' US Satcom Company supports survey of India
Singapore Technologies Electronics Limited’s (ST Electronics) US satellite communications company, iDirect Technologies (iDirect), announced a new partnership with Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL) to offer improved communications capabilities via satellite networks to customers in the Indian market...

Heavy hitter line-up for CASBAA Convention 2006
The Cable & Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) has unveiled its conference program for the CASBAA Convention 2006 in Hong Kong, tagged “From Bandwidth to Brandwidth”...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. receives $2.8 million order for satellite communications equipment
Comtech Telecommunications announced that its Tempe, Arizona-based subsidiary, Comtech EF Data Corp., received a satellite communications equipment order for $2.8 million from a global systems integrator. The equipment will be utilized to support a U.S. government agency's communications infrastructure project...

Boeing-built, on-orbit commercial satellite proves technology proposed for future military satellite system
Boeing [NYSE: BA], in conjunction with Hughes Network Systems, LLC [HUGHES], has successfully demonstrated the space-based delivery of MP-3 files, a streaming video multi-cast and voice over Internet protocol services to a government audience, validating key elements of the Boeing communications approach for the Transformational Satellite Communications Space Segment (TSAT SS) program...

UDcast to outfit 1500 high speed connection sites via satellites for the Algerian State Banks
UDcast, a leading provider of solutions enabling full IP over broadcast and satellite media, announces the signature of a contract with Algérie Télécom as the Algerian operator deploys 1500 satellite sites over the Algerian territory...


SES AMERICOM expands HD-PRIME, provides cable operators with access to future HD programming
With consumer demand for high definition television accelerating, SES AMERICOM, an SES GLOBAL company announced that Comcast, Bresnan Communications, Brighthouse Networks, and Metrocast are among the first group of domestic US cable MSOs to participate in an innovative triple-feed antenna program, offering access to the next generation of HD channels...

Massive Lockheed Martin solar arrays to be launched to International Space Station
The second of four pairs of massive solar arrays and a Solar Alpha Rotary Joint (SARJ), built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] at its Space Systems facility in Sunnyvale, will be launched aboard the space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station (ISS) as early as August 27, 2006...