Talat Hussain, news director for the Pakistani channel, Aaj TV, recently recounted how when the feed dropped, their provider Asiasat discovered it had been shunted by another feed fired from a state-controlled TV station in Pakistan.
Because Samir is profoundly averse to debt, the company did not make a serious bid in 1992, when AsiaSat, a satellite service owned by Li Ka-shing, of Hong Kong, put a transponder up for sale in India.
SES will own a fleet of 28 satellites and have access to 13 others through investments in smaller players like AsiaSat and Brasilsat.
AsiaSat was a client of Martin Marietta.
"How was Jon Corzine supposed to know about that if the federal government didn't know about it until the year 2000?" In a three-page news release about the AsiaSat deal, Mr. DeMarco said it was fair to judge Mr. Corzine, who has never held public office, on his business dealings over the years.
In June, Lockheed Martincoei agreed to pay the federal government $13 million for giving American satellite technology to AsiaSat in 1994, before Goldman Sachs helped AsiaSat go public.
The State Department later found that AsiaSat had illegally acquired secret American military information that eventually helped the Chinese government fix defects in its rocket technology, said Peter DeMarco, Mr. Franks's communications director.
Those transfers, officials say, raised more security concerns than Martin Marietta's help to AsiaSat.
Martin Marietta Aerospace, which was later acquired by Lockheed, provided help to AsiaSat, a satellite company based in Hong Kong with heavy financial ties to the Chinese government.
