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[Satellite Today – 5-20-08] SpaceConnection signed a multi-year agreement with Telesat for the provision of occasional use satellite capacity on the Anik fleet of satellites, SpaceConnection announced May 20.     […]

[Satellite Today – 5-20-08] The U.S. Department of Homeland Security‘s National Communications System (NCS) is partnering with Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) to provide satellite priority services to the NCS priority […]

[Satellite Today – 5-20-08] Stratos Global Corp. has been selected as a global distributor of Addvalue Communications Wideye Sabre 1 Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) satellite terminal and accessories, Stratos […]

[Satellite Today – 5-20-08] MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) has been awarded a multi-million dollar upgrade contract to supply an unnamed customer with additional capabilities for a complete system […]

[Satellite Today – 5-20-08] Telespazio and Thales Alenia Space demonstrated a new satellite system for guiding and monitoring emergency service vehicles responding to fire or other incidents in tunnels and […]

[Satellite Today – 5-20-08] Northrop Grumman Corp. completed the system requirements review for the U.S. Air Force next-generation GPS (GPS) Control Segment (OCX), the company announced May 19.     In […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] through its Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program contributed more than $700 million to Alabama’s economy last year and supported nearly 5,600 direct and indirect jobs, according […]

Defense spending will plummet if either Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, or Sen. Barak Obama of Illinois, who seeks the Democratic presidential nomination, enters the […]

The Ames Research Center has created a lightweight heat shield that nonetheless can stand up to temperatures of 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit, NASA announced. As the weight of a spacecraft heat […]

But Huge Number Of Aging Workers Poised For Retirement; Engineers, Scientists, Mathematicians Needed Even as the U.S. economy slows, with some economists saying it is in a recession, employment in […]

NASA Clears Astronaut To Spend Months On Space Station, Rejecting Concerns About Russian Soyuz Vehicle As Emergency Escape Space Shuttle Discovery Gets Clean Review For Launch From Kennedy At 5:02 […]

An overseas defense contractor announced it will buy outright a U.S. defense-related company, even as a friendly nation vetoed a plan for just a portion of one of its defense- […]

U.S. controls on exports of products with militarily sensitive technology were written in the Cold War era and should be revised, perhaps by saying that a prohibition on export of […]

[Satellite Today – 5-19-08] The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) exercised an option for SpaceDev to continue work on the High Delta-V satellite program, the company announced May […]

[Satellite Today – 5-19-08] RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd. will distribute AXN SCI-FI, a science fiction channel from Sony Pictures Television International, into Russia, RRSat announced May 19. The agreement […]

[Satellite Today – 5-19-08] Integral Systems Inc. completed the initial phase of activities to integrate the Loral Skynet and Telesat Canada satellite fleet operations under Telesat, Integral announced May 19. […]

 

[Satellite Today – 5-19-08] Comtech EF Data Corp. initiated high-volume production of its CDM-625 Advanced Satellite modem, the company announced May 19. The new platform, which combines combine the low-density […]