Month: April 2009

[Satellite Today 04-07-09] NewWave Broadband has ordered $2 million in satellite communications products from iDirect to expand maritime VSAT service and land-based market, NewWave announced April 6.     Under the...

[Satellite Today 04-07-09] Swe-Dish Satellite Systems received Xtar approval for the Swe-Dish SuitcasexAE CCT120, a portable satcom terminal that operates on Xtar’s X-band satellite system, Swe-Dish announced April 6.    ...

Raytheon Co. [RTN] will use the relatively low cost of the Network Centric Airborne Defense Element (NCADE) to help sell it to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Congress in...

Soyuz Lands Wednesday With Crew Space Shuttle Atlantis has arrived at Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., poised for a May 12 liftoff on the STS-125 Mission to...

Raytheon Co. [RTN] unveiled its Responder product, a rapidly deployable interchangeable, mission-specific sensor payload for satellites. The move comes as many military officers and analysts worry that some potential enemies...

Updated — April 2, 2009 – 11 a.m. EDT Legend:+ Targeted For | * No Earlier Than (Tentative) |** To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: April 28 * Mission: GOES-O...

The Aerospace Industries Association once again criticized export controls on sensitive technologies that might have military applications, saying those controls harm the space industrial base. AIA President and CEO Marion...

Robert W. Cobb, the long-embattled NASA inspector general, resigned under pressure from several Senate and House lawmakers who earlier had slammed his performance in office and requested that he be...

The Air Force gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a contract to upgrade guidance and control sections for the air-to-ground Maverick missile. "The military is successfully employing laser-guided Mavericks against moving targets...

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) criticized several space programs on cost and other criteria. They were among many defense procurement programs that have run a combined total $296 billion over...