Month: May 2007

The U.S. Department of the Interior is seeking nominations for membership on the new National Geospatial Advisory Committee (NGAC), Interior Deputy Secretary P. Lynn Scarlett announced on May 14. The...

Access Intelligence has named Scott Chase as chairman for the SATELLITE 2008 Conference and Exhibition. Active in the satellite industry since 1981, for the past four years Chase has been...

Modern Times Group (MTG), owner of the Viasat DTH platforms in the Nordic and Baltic regions, has sold one of its direct-shopping channels to a German company, MTG announced. MTG...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has furnished Novatel Inc. with a 10-year license for the company to sell precise-positioning receivers for tracking Galileo signals, Novatel announced May 14. Galileo is...

In the first weather forecasts for planets outside the solar system, NASA researchers have found a giant gas planet likely covered with high winds, while another orb has the highest...

A new report on how global warming may precipitate crises forcing military action is eliciting extensive reactions among members of Congress, and discussions later this week at think tanks. For...

The Department of Defense asked the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington think tank, to study export controls on military items. CSIS will examine current U.S. export...

DataPath, Inc. has joined the Satellite Industry Association (SIA) as an executive member. The company provides satellite and wireless communications networks around the world. SIA is a U.S.-based trade association...

NASA plans to build a new stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi to test the future Ares lifter rocket engines, propulsion units in the Constellation Program to take...