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Orbital Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2005 Financial Results
Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB) today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2005. Orbital reported fourth quarter 2005 revenues of $199.6 million compared to revenues of $175.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2004. The company's fourth quarter 2005 operating income was $13.8 million as compared to $12.3 million of operating income in the comparable quarter in 2004...

International Datacasting provides Radio TelevisiÓn Unida in ECUADOR with DVB/IP Radio Network
International Datacasting Corporation (TSX:IDC) announced today that its customer Radio y Televisión Unida (RTU) in Ecuador has launched a new radio network using IDC’s SuperFlex satellite datacasting system. Last year IDC provided RTU with its initial MPEG4 television network—one of the first networks of its kind. The RTU network reaches cities across the country—even a remote station in the Galapagos Islands!...

Radyne Receives $1.3 Million Satellite Modem Order
Radyne Corporation (Nasdaq: RADN) announced today that its Radyne satellite electronics division received a new order of over $1.3 million for satellite modems and frequency converters from a major South Asian integrator...

ILS Proton to Launch ARABSAT 4A
The Proton launch vehicle will inject the satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit, using a four-burn Breeze M mission design. The first three stages of the Proton will use a standard ascent trajectory to place the Breeze M fourth stage, with the satellite, into a suborbital trajectory, from which the Breeze M will place itself and the spacecraft into a circular parking orbit of 173 km 107.5 miles), inclined at 51.5 degrees...

Eutelsat Revenue Up
Eutelsat Communications reported revenues 6.4 per cent up at 395 million Euro for the first half ended 31 December 2005. Excluding a one-off income from penalties related to Atlantic Bird, the revenue growth was 2.6 per cent...

Schlumberger Selects SatManage for Competitive Edge
Parallel has announced today that its network management suite, SatManage, has been selected by Schlumberger to manage both their global client and internal satellite networks. SatManage will consolidate data and integrate with the existing management infrastructure to provide a single interface for analyzing and reporting network status and performance...

Asia Pacific–20 February, 2006 – Irdeto, the proven expert in content security for digital TV, IPTV and mobile networks, announced today that it has successfully deployed its Irdeto Digital TV conditional access solution at RAI in Italy, allowing RAI to conduct a public demonstration of the quality of high definition to the Italian public and visitors to the Torino Olympic Games...

SES Delivers Growth, Creating Shareholder Value
Romain Bausch, President & CEO of SES, said, "SES' strategy is further validated by these strong results. Our market positioning has improved and we have achieved excellent returns for our investors during 2005. Strong cash flow generation has substantially exceeded the needs of our investment programme. This has allowed us to deliver outstanding total returns to shareholders, comprised of growing EBITDA, significantly increased dividends, and our share buyback and cancellation programme...

Land Launch Receives Contract Award from Israel Aircraft Industries
Space International Services and Sea Launch Company are pleased to announce the award of a firm launch contract with Israel Aircraft Industries, Ltd., utilizing the Land Launch system...

Boeing to Begin Work on Fourth Wideband Gapfiller Satellite
Boeing [NYSE:BA] has received a $148 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to begin work on the fourth satellite in the Wideband Gapfiller Satellite (WGS) system, a 13-kilowatt spacecraft based upon Boeing's 702 satellite model...

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