Author: Staff Writer

Report Urges Revamping Defense, Intelligence Space Acquisition, Assails Sole-Source Contracts Better Relations Needed Between Military-Intelligence Agencies And Commercial Satellite Data Firms "The United States is losing its preeminence in space,"...

NASA scientists have gone backwards to progress, finding an old Apollo spacecraft heat shield hidden away in Smithsonian Institution archives that can yield secrets for designing the next-generation Orion space...

With Space Program, China Sees Military, Economic, Political Gains; China Makes Careful But Large Moves China sees its space program as an investment, not as an unwelcome budgetary outlay, a...

Neither of the major-party U.S. presidential candidates is expected to press for aggressive U.S. policies in space or the procurement of anti-satellite weapons, a new report suggests. Thus no major...

The Department of Defense (DOD) is falling short in tracking the health of the defense supplier base, according to a new report from the nonpartisan watchdog agency, the Government Accountability...

But Kennedy Loss Now Seen As Less Than Earlier Estimate Of 5,000 Or More Thousands Of Space Workers To Lose Paychecks As U.S. Economy Begins Slipping Into Downturn Thousands of...

[Satellite Today 10-10-08] EchoStar Corp. appointed Joseph Clayton to the company’s board effective Oct. 7. This appointment increases the size of EchoStar’s board from seven to eight members.      Clayton...

[Satellite Today 10-10-08] Parallel, a satellite communications company, signed a contract with Ship Equip of Norway to supply the company with enterprise grade satellite network management software suite, SatManage.    ...

[Satellite Today 10-10-08] Office des Postes et Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT) signed a multi-transponder contract for capacity on Intelsat’s new satellite, IS-18.     The contract, which spans the 15-year...

[Satellite Today 10-10-08] International Datacasting Corp. (IDC), a satellite broadband multimedia content distributor, has been selected by The Radio Network (TRN) in New Zealand to modernize the broadcaster’s satellite distribution,...