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Panel Adds $350 Million To Transformational Satellite, $100 Million To Aegis, $115 Million To THAAD, And An Extra $28 Million To Short-Range BMD Bill Adds $30 Million For Follow-On To […]

[Satellite Today – 5-5-08] SES New Skies has contracted 40 megahertz of capacity on the NSS-7 satellite to Lebanese Internet service provider (ISP) IDMI, SES announced May 5.     IDMI […]

Ranking Republican Says Anti-BMD Hearing ‘A Fraud’ Obering Asks, If An Enemy Launches A Missile From An Unmarked Ship, How Could U.S. Forces Retaliate? Democratic legislators lacerated and lambasted the […]

[Satellite Today – 5-2-08] The Jason-2 satellite has left the integration center in France and is being shipped to its California launch site, Thales Alenia Space announced April 30.     […]

[Satellite Today – 5-2-08]  Loral Space and Communications has regained compliance with the Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. and no longer is in danger of being delisted, Loral announced May 1. […]

[Satellite Today – 5-2-08] EMS Technologies Inc. CFO Don Scartz is retiring and will be succeeded by Gary Shell, the company announced May 2.     Scartz, worked for EMS for […]

[Satellite Today – 5-2-08] A sensor for monitoring global climate has been restored to the first satellite scheduled to fly in the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), officials […]

[Satellite Today – 5-2-08] The Russian Satellite Communications Co. (RSCC) has received the payloads for the Express-AM44 and Express-MD1 satellites, the organization announced.     The Express-AM44 payload was delivered to […]

[Satellite News – 5-2-08] Spanish satellite operator Hispasat is targeting a strong performance in its core markets in Europe and Latin America throughout the next year, with the 2009 launch […]

[Satellite Today – 5-1-08] Glowlink’s Wideband Global Spectrum Monitoring System has begun monitoring traffic carried on the first U.S. Department of Defense Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite, Glowlink announced April […]

[Satellite Today – 5-1-08] Lockheed Martin has completed a baseline integrated system test (BIST) on the first Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit spacecraft, the company announced April 30.     […]

[Satellite Today – 5-1-08] Radarsat-2 has been commissioned and is ready for commercial operations, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) announced May 1.     Launched in December, the satellite completed […]

[Satellite Today – 5-1-08] The cameras aboard the Cartosat-2A and Indian Mimi Satellite-1 (IMS-1) satellites have been turned on and are transmitting images, the Indian Space Research Organization announced April […]

[Satellite Today – 5-1-08] ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Ltd. has signed an agreement with Discovery Communications LLC for content for the alpha trials of ICO mim, ICO announced April 29. […]

[Satellite Today – 5-1-08] Digital technology and services provider NDS Group PLC posted revenue gains of 20 percent for the third quarter of 2008, the company announced May 1.     […]

[Satellite Today – 5-1-08] BSkyB has nearly  9 million subscribers in the United Kingdom and Ireland, the company announced April 30.     High-definition (HD) growth remains robust, with 465,000 subscribers […]

[Satellite Today – 5-1-08] SES Astra has launched new high-definition (HD) bouquet of channels has launched in Holland and Belgium, the operator announced April 30.         Dutch satellite TV […]

[Satellite Today – 5-1-08] India is setting up a satellite-based information system using Inmarsat’s maritime network to enable vessel tracking for maritime security and permit faster search and rescue of […]

[Satellite News – 5-1-08] Media Partners Asia believes the direct-to-home (DTH) market in Asia will grow to around 44 million customers throughout the region by 2012.     Satellite pay-TV services […]

Astrium Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Astrium, offers a one-stop shop in the satellite services market, targeting secure communications, Earth observation services and navigation services. The company has posted […]

Is the satellite industry green? The issue of the environmental impact of satellites was raised by Eutelsat CEO Giuliano Berretta at the SATELLITE 2008 conference in February. “It’s the only […]

When a Proton Breeze M rocket suffered a second launch failure in six months, it provided yet another reminder of how difficult placing a satellite in orbit can be and […]

Thousands of e-mails honoring the life and works of Sir Arthur C. Clarke, who passed away on March 19 in a hospital near his home in Colombo, Sri Lanka, have […]

Satellite industry experts pretty much agree that satellite-delivered TV and video, including direct-to-home services, direct broadcast services and the distribution of digital and high-definition TV are the star performers in […]

Consolidation, consolidation, consolidation. It always has been a buzzword in the satellite industry, but after an intense round of activity that produced some significant transactions among satellite operators, are other […]

TECHNOLOGY SpaceDev To Develop Seals For NASA SpaceDev Inc. has been awarded a contract to develop next-generation seal technologies for instrument covers for NASA, SpaceDev announced. Under the six-month Phase […]

There has been plenty of gloom in the first months of 2008 stemming from the credit crisis born of the subprime mortgage meltdown and the end of easy and cheap […]

Rapid advances in wireless communications and display technologies are transforming how, when and where people receive and consume information, and these changes are creating booming demand for bandwidth that promises […]

When introduced, Connexion by Boeing was hailed as a breakthrough productivity tool, but the service lost millions of dollars before being grounded after a few short years. Today, other providers […]

[Satellite Today – 4-30-08] By 2013, Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) end-user devices and systems will generate yearly revenues of $240 billion, according to a research study by ABI Research. […]