Author: Staff Writer

Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has been awarded a contract by Japan’s JSAT Corp. to build an A2100 geostationary telecommunications satellite. Financial terms were not disclosed. The satellite, designated JCSAT-9, will...

Conexant Systems [Nasdaq:CNXT], a Newport Beach, Calif.-based provider of semiconductor system solutions for communications applications, has introduced a family of MPEG-2 audio/video decoders for cable, satellite and terrestrial set-top boxes...

Marlink has signed a three-year agreement with Kyma Ship Management, of Miami, Fla., to provide satellite communications onboard the TSS Topaz cruise ship. The vessel will be under charter for...

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates [TSX: MDA] announced Monday that an unidentified customer will purchase satellite imagery from MDA’s RADARSAT International subsidiary for land use mapping and monitoring purposes. The agreement...

SI International [Nasdaq: SINT], a Reston, Va.-based provider of information technology and space system products and services, has been awarded a contract with a potential value of $24 million to...

NSI Global [TSX: NGL], a Montreal-based supplier of satellite-based communication systems, announced Monday that its wholly owned subsidiary, Vistar Telecommunications, has licensed intellectual property to Aether Systems for net proceeds...

Dulles, Va.-based Orbital Sciences Corporation [NYSE: ORB] successfully launched the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite April 28 aboard the company’s Pegasus rocket. The 312-kilogram...

The Indian Space Research Organization will fire its experimental GSLV-2 launch vehicle on May 8 from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in India. The GSLV project has the objective of...

Launch of the AMC-9 satellite has been delayed by about 30 days after the April 26 planned lift-off was postponed due to a technical problem with a component on the...

New Skies Satellites [NYSE: NSK], a Dutch-based satellite communications company, and KMS/FalconStream, a Kuwaiti information technology firm that provides Internet connectivity services via satellite, have signed a long-term multi-transponder, multi-satellite...