Month: September 2008

European Missile Defense Receives $465 Million In Defense Authorization, $246 Million Under Budget Request Congress, rushing to wrap up work for the year ahead of the Nov. 4 general election,...

A Galaxy 19 satellite for Intelsat was lofted to orbit by a Zenit-3SL rocket that lifted off the Sea Launch Odyssey platform at the Equator, Space Systems/Loral, the satellite provider,...

An emergency $700 billion financial industry bailout package that a worried, hurried Congress wrote to stave off a global economic disaster may serve to further tighten finances of many federal...

Russian saber rattling and belligerence against U.S. plans to build a European Missile Defense (EMD) system in the Czech Republic and Poland may, ironically, have so worried the Czechs and...

[Satellite Today 09-29-08] The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rejected a proposal by Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) that every handset in a national broadband network for emergency responders include satellite...

Atlantis Now Blasts Off At 10:19 P.M. ET On Oct. 14, While Endeavour Will Launch At 7:07 P.M. ET Nov. 16, NASA Announces NASA delayed its next two space shuttle...

[Satellite Today 09-29-08] EchoStar entered into an agreement with SkyWay USA to provide transponder service to support SkyWay USA’s satellite broadband Internet service with domestic Ku-band satellite bandwidth, EchoStar announced...

[Satellite Today 09-29-08] Tandberg Television is providing an MPEG-4 AVC high definition (HD) encoding system to a Spanish-based broadcast solutions provider, Overon, Tandberg announced Sept. 29.     Overon will use...

Launch Is A Win For Both SpaceX And NASA, Which Needs Commercial Transport Capabilities To Space Station Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, yesterday finally attained success in launching a...

[Satellite News 09-25-08] Christian Gates, vice president of strategy for Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV), spoke with Satellite News about his company’s partnership with ICO and Qualcomm to integrate satellite communications...