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Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) has launched its Satellite Mutual Aid Radio Talkgroup (SMART) system on the company’s nationwide push-to-talk satellite network for the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal […]

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. will provide several hundred additional SkyEdge VSATs for JSC Kazakhtelecom (KT), Gilat announced Aug. 6. With the new deployment, KT will operate four Gilat satellite hubs […]

Stratos Global Corp. has signed three separate strategic agreements to provide remote communications solutions to global offshore oil and gas industry clients, Stratos announced Aug. 6. The agreements are with […]

Iridium Satellite has sold satellite communications equipment for use in relief efforts by two International Red Cross members, Magen David Adom in Israel and The New Zealand Red Cross, Iridium […]

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) commissioned a new $44.4 million, 240,000-square-foot building at the von Braun Complex in Redstone Arsenal at Huntsville, Ala. Some 2,500 people will move to the […]

Boeing, Lockheed Submit Rival Proposals To Compete For TSAT As we reported last week, two rival teams, headed by The Boeing Co. [BA] and a Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT]/Northrop Grumman […]

Lander Spacecraft Streaks On Mission To Arctic Region Of Mars The Phoenix spacecraft lifted off at 5:22 a.m. ET Saturday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on a 422 […]

NASA selected four proposals focusing on astrophysics priorities in lunar science to facilitate an exploration program. Those proposed studies would help develop new opportunities to conduct important science investigations during […]

The plucky Mars rover vehicles still are clinging to life amidst a bitterly blinding dust storm on the red planet, but their health is touch-and-go. Even if the rovers take […]

Peering down at Earth from an orbit hundreds of miles high reveals a planet where there are no visible national boundaries, no identifiable strongholds or clearly-seen bitterly contested bits of […]

The launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour on its STS-118 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has been delayed a day to 6:36 p.m. ET Wednesday, so crews will have […]

Admiral Sees Iran As “Aggressive, Destabilizing;” He Backs European BMD The United States needs a ballistic missile defense (BMD) shield to guard against attacks involving missiles tipped with weapons of […]

Anticipation has been running high since the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said July 31 it will be revising its 700 megahertz band plan and service rules “to promote the […]

Navigation and communications devices manufacturer Garmin Ltd. has signed a letter of intent to acquire Synergy S.p.A., the distributor of Garmin’s consumer products in Italy, Garmin announced Aug. 3. Financial […]

SES Astra has signed two long-term capacity deals with top German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF, SES Astra announced Aug. 2. SES Astra will provide ARD and ZDF with an […]

Numerex Corp., a machine-to-machine solutions and wireless network services provider, has acquired the assets of Orbit One Communications Inc., Numerex announced Aug. 3. Numerex will pay $6 million in cash […]

German pay-TV operator Premiere has been seeing strong demand for its new Bundesliga (German soccer) packages in Germany. The company announced August 2 that it had sold 45,000 subscriptions in […]

Boeing, Lockheed Martin Teams Lodge TSAT Production Proposals Teams from each Boeing and Lockheed Martin with their respective industrial partners have lodged proposals to the U.S. Air Force for the […]

Abertis, a Spanish infrastructure company, has firmly set its sights on Spanish satellite operator Hispasat. In its results issued August 2, the company announced that its subsidiary, Abertis Telecom, “has […]

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications, has been awarded a contract from Sirius Satellite Radio to build Sirius FM-6, a high-power satellite designed to operate in […]

Inmarsat has teamed up with top Philippines wireless operator Smart Communications as the telco looks to expand the reach of its satellite phone offering, Smart Link, the companies announced August […]

Integral Systems Inc. has been awarded a cost-plus-award fee modification from the U.S. Air Force totaling $5.8 million to modify the Command and Control System-Consolidated (CCS-C) effort to support the […]

Showtime, the Middle East satellite pay-TV operator, is launching a new Video-on-Demand (VoD) service to its subscribers in the Middle East, the company announced August 2. With the launch of […]

Having earlier in the week submitted its proposal to the U.S. Air Force for the development and production phase of the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) Military Operations System, Boeing […]

BSkyB is planning to spend 125 million British pounds ($253.5 million) to acquire British set-top box vendor Amstrad, the operator announced July 31. Two days later, BSkyB reported that Sky […]

Northrop Grumman Corp. and three U.S. government agencies have completed a restructuring of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), the organizations announced July 30. As part of the […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has revised the 700 megahertz band plan and service rules “to promote the creation of a nationwide interoperable broadband network for public safety and to […]

Northrop Grumman Space Technology was awarded a contract modification including a cost-plus-award-fee with multiple incentives worth $2.35 billion in the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) acquisition and operations […]

Eumetsat, the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, gave further details of an anomaly on its Metop-A satellite, which it believes could now be “non-correctable,” the agency announced […]