Month: April 2003

Boeing [NYSE:BA] is teaming with Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. to develop laser technologies that will be used for satellite communications. Under the terms of the agreement, Boeing and Ball...

As a first step in collecting space debris, the National Space Development Agency of Japan‘s (NASDA) satellite, mu-Lab Sat, last month captured images of a small target jettisoned from the...

NavCom Technology (Redondo Beach, Calif.) has signed a sales representation and distribution agreement with Navtech Seminars & GPS Supply Co. to make NavCom’s line of StarFire dual-frequency GPS receivers more...

Week of March 28 – April 3, 2003 Percentage Change Symbol April 3 Price One Week One Month Three Month Year to Date Operators APT SATELLITE HLDGS ATS 1.55 1.3...

L-3 Communications [NYSE: LLL] announced March 31 that its Communication Systems-West division has delivered the first two super-high frequency airborne satellite communication (satcom) terminals, the first airborne wide band data...

The European Space Agency’s Maxus 5 sounding rocket mission was launched April 1 at 6:00 GMT from Esrange, north of the Arctic Circle near Kiruna in northern Sweden. The rocket,...

Integral Systems [Nasdaq: ISYS] subsidiary RT Logic has won a follow-on contract with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to supply portable universal ground processing units for use in satellite...

David Sprechman has been appointed CEO of GlobeCast America, the U.S.-based arm of French satellite service provider GlobeCast. Sprechman will be responsible for overall direction and management of GlobeCast’s North...

Arnaud Lagardere has been named co-chairman of European aerospace giant EADS. He will replace Jean-Luc Lagardere, who died on March 14. French holding company Sogeade (which includes French high-tech firm...

Using Intelsat’s satellite capacity and Japan Telecom’s antenna facilities, Japanese broadcaster NHK is delivering programming from the Showa base in Antarctica to households in Japan. NHK has set up its...