Gregg Daffner, President, Asia Broadcast Satellite Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) was established to meet the growing demands of broadcast and telecommunications operators in the Indian Ocean Region. In September 2006, ABS founders Mr. Thomas Choi and Mr. Gregg Daffner with major shareholder Citigroup Venture Capital International (CVCI), and the financial backing of Asia Debt Management (ADM) successfully acquired the Lockheed Martin Intersputnik (LMI) satellite operator from Lockheed Martin. Click here to listen to the audio
	The future shape of television On 21-22 November 2006, in the heart of London, the future shape of television was debated among the big and the good of Europe's broadcasting industry. Click here for the full story

Space Systems/ Loral to build satellite for Telesat Canada
Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) announced that it has been awarded a contract to manufacture Nimiq 5, a new high-power, direct broadcast satellite for Telesat Canada...

MEASAT and Astro sign transponder lease agreement for Measat-3 capacity
MEASAT Satellite Systems has signed an interim Transponder Lease Agreement ("TLA") with MEASAT Broadcast Network Systems Sdn Bhd ("Astro") for initial Ku-Band transponder capacity on the recently launched MEASAT-3 satellite...

Boeing GPS ground station test validates ability to command GPS fleet
Boeing has successfully completed a live demonstration of the Global Positioning System (GPS) ground station, which, when fully operational, will control the 32 GPS satellites now in orbit as well as those that will join the fleet in the coming months...

ARINC, world leader in aviation communications, first to introduce European service for business jets
Skylogic, Eutelsat's broadband affiliate, has teamed with ViaSat, producer of innovative satellite and wireless communications products, to provide in-flight communications to business jets flying over Europe. The new service has already been selected by ARINC, a world leader in aviation communications, which announces that passengers on over 40 business jets flying over European airspace are now benefiting from satellite-based in-flight communications. ARINC provides users with European coverage through Ku-band capacity on Eutelsat's ATLANTIC BIRD™ 2...

ViaSat LINKWAY VSATs provide networking for DataPath mobile military communications systems
ViaSat Inc has received an additional order from DataPath, Inc. for LinkWay® satellite communications networking equipment for mobile military communications...

SkyWaves 2007 Global Training Calendar announced to meet increasing demand for SkyWave
SkyWave Mobile Communications, the leading worldwide distributor of D+ satellite communications products and services, has announced its global application development training calendar for 2007, in response to increasing demands for SkyWave D+ technology. These interactive training sessions offer SkyWave’s expanding base of solution providers with advanced application development skills to accelerate their time to market and increase revenues...

Sirius meets subs projections and ponders XM Merger
Amid continued speculation about the possibility of a satellite-radio merger, Sirius Satellite Radio finished 2006 with 82 per cent more subscribers than in the previous year...

NDS to provide end-to-end content protection system for KT Mobile content service
NDS has announced that it has been selected by KT, the leading telecommunications company in Korea, to deploy a full end-to-end system including NDS VideoGuard Mobile and NDS VideoGuard PMP on the company’s new ‘toest’ mobile content platform...

Intelsat announces proposed redemption of floating rate senior notes due 2012
Intelsat has announced that Intelsat Subsidiary Holding Company, Ltd. intends to redeem all of its outstanding $1.0 billion Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2012 (the “Notes”)...

Globecomm Systems awarded contracts for multi-band auto-explorer portable satellite terminals from a repeat customer in the United States Government marketplace
Globecomm Systems has been awarded contracts for multi-band Auto-Explorer portable satellite terminals from a repeat customer in the United States government marketplace valued at $3.4 million...

Comtech Telecommunications receives $20.1 million in initial funding against a $26.8 million contract for satellite communications and network services
Comtech Telecommunications has announced that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corporation, received a letter contract with a not-to-exceed ceiling value of $26.8 million for satellite communications and network management services. Initial funding was set at $20.1 million, or 75% of the ceiling based on Comtech’s submission of a qualified proposal. The contract is expected to be definitized and funded to its final negotiated ceiling within the next few months...

Sat TV uplink sector crucial for media industry
The worldwide Satellite TV uplink industry is emerging as an important growth driver for a wide and expanding range of digital video production equipment and video management products, according to research specialist In-Stat, in a new report - Satellite Uplink Facilities for Professional TV Services. This market will experience solid, sustained incremental revenue growth, and have a value of US$306 million during 2010, the firm says...

HISDESAT awarded multi-year contract
HISDESAT Servicios Estratégicos, S.A. (HISDESAT) has entered into a contract with the BELGIUM MoD/Direction Générale Material Resources for the provision of X-band communications services using the XTAR-EUR and SPAINSAT satellites...