Author: Staff Writer

NASA ground crews discovered a hole in the Space Shuttle Atlantis right-hand payload bay door radiator. The hole, about a tenth of an inch in diameter, apparently resulted from something...

Comtech EF Data Corp., received a $1 million order for satellite communications equipment to support a satellite-based cellular backhaul network in Southeast Asia. Included in the order are bandwidth-efficient satellite...

The launch of a satellite on the Soyuz vehicle, which was to have lifted off Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, has been postponed for several days, according to Starsem. Cause...

The Optus-D1 telecommunications satellite for Australia’s Optus has been mated to its Ariane 5 launcher in preparation for an Oct. 12 launch aboard an Ariane 5 rocket, Arianespace announced. The...

ND Satcom announced Oct. 5 that it has earned a contract for VSAT systems from France VSAT service provider LCDC Telecoms. LCDC will supply end customer Maurel & Prom, an...

Russia and India will share use of Glonass, a 24-satellite navigational and global positioning system, the Russian Federal Space Agency announced Oct. 4. Glonass is designed for military and civilian...

Decarta, a supplier of software platforms and services for the location-based services industry, and Globexplorer, a provider of a commercial library of aerial photos, satellite imagery and geographic maps, have...

Eagle Broadband Inc.’s new super headend facility at Newcom International’s Florida teleport is operational, Eagle announced Oct. 3. The headend gives Eagle the ability to collect and digitize TV content...

Two scientists who helped create the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Oct. 3....

GMV Space Systems Inc. received a contract from Orbital Sciences Corp. to provide flight-dynamics software for the Thor 2-R telecommunications satellite, GMV announced. Orbital received a contract from Telenor ASA...