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In collaboration with Hakusan Corp. and JSAT Corp., Advantech Satellite Networks has demonstrated the industry’s first DVB-RCS VSAT terminal operating in a mesh topology where each VSAT terminal relays data […]

Boeing Co. has completed end-to-end testing of the Wideband Global SatCom (WGS) payload command and control system in preparation for the launch of the first WGS satellite this summer, Boeing […]

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) completed its baseline design review for a geostationary mini-satellite platform, the company announced June 5.   The 2.28 million euro ($3.1 million) pre-development project receives […]

Northrop Grumman Space and Mission Systems Corp. and General Dynamics C4 Systems have both been awarded multi-million, firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modifications, the U.S. Department of Defense announced June 4. […]

The U.S. Navy awarded ViaSat an undefinitized, firm-fixed-price delivery order for multifunctional information distribution system-joint tactical radio system (MIDS-JTRS) production transition terminals (PTTs), the U.S. Department of Defense announced June […]

Globecomm Systems Inc. has been awarded a $20.7 million contract from General Communication Inc., Globecomm announced June 5. General Communication provides voice, video and data communication services to residential, commercial […]

Rick Howe has been named vice president of business development for Ensequence, the interactive video company announced June 4. Howe will represent Ensequence with cable, satellite and IPTV operators, working […]

Alan W. Baldwin, a director of Integral Systems Inc., has been named its interim CEO, the company announced June 1. Bill Lewis was named the interim chief financial officer (CFO). […]

Worldspace Satellite Radio closed the refinancing of its $155 million in convertible notes, redeeming $50 million of the existing notes for cash and issuing new notes and warrants in exchange […]

DRS Technologies Inc. has demonstrated its X-band satellite communications-on-the-move (COTM) capabilities with an Xtar satellite during the U.S. Navy’s  annual Trident Warrior exercise, DRS Technologies announced June 4. DRS Codem […]

Shin Satellite is teaming with Asia Mobile Holdings (AMH) as Shin aims for a better performance in Cambodia and Laos, the company announced June 4. The satellite operator said it […]

Pace Micro Technology expected its performance for the year ending June 2 to be slightly ahead of current market expectations, the company announced June 4. The technology vendor, which works […]

Lockheed Martin completed a successful system design review (SDR) of the TSAT Mission Operations System (TMOS) with the U.S. Air Force, the company announced June 4. In January, the company […]

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) has signed a contract worth 2.8 million Canadian dollars ($2.6 million) with the Canadian Department of National Defense to conduct the definition phase for […]

Raytheon Co. has been awarded the U.S. Navy’s Multiband Terminal (NMT) contract with its combined lifetime development and production value in excess of $1 billion, Raytheon announced June 4. Raytheon […]

Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) took a spacewalk to install panels to help shield a service module from micro-meteoroids. ISS Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg […]

If it can work for missile defense interceptors, why not on manned spaceships? NASA gave Aerojet, a GenCorp Inc. company, a five year contract to develop technology for a rocket-powered […]

PAC-3 Missile Variant Unsuccessful In Recent Test By Ann Roosevelt A development test last month of a new Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] Patriot PAC-3 missile variant experienced an anomaly in […]

NASA and other space agencies released a plan for coordinated exploration of space. The American space agency was joined by those of 13 other nations as they continued space exploration […]

U.S. missile defense and space efforts, along with a vast array of defense programs, are being shortchanged unrelentingly by a government starved of the income it requires to meet critical […]

Russia claims it has a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that can penetrate any ballistic missile shield, after a test launch of the new weapon went zooming across the Eurasian […]

Launch Set For 7:38 ET Friday Evening NASA leaders expressed confidence that repairs to the storm-damaged Space Shuttle Atlantis external fuel tank are sound, and the spaceship likely will have […]

The BBC/ITV-backed Freesat direct-to-home platform, set to launch in 2008, will be critical in helping the United Kingdom become an all-digital nation, according to Emma Scott, project director for Freesat. […]

Is eight enough? That’s the question facing Globalstar Inc. even as the first four of the handheld satellite phone service provider’s eight planned 2007 satellites were placed into orbit on […]

After a delay of approximately two years, a new Freesat service is likely to launch in the United Kingdom early next year. The BBC and ITV, two of the U.K.’s […]

NASA astronomers using the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite and ground-based telescopes, have discovered the properties of a rare, extremely massive, and young binary star system at sizes dwarfing […]

Showtime, the Middle East DTH operator, is unlikely to have an initial public offering (IPO) this year as CEO Marc-Antoine d’Halluin admitted that an IPO "is not part of our […]

Norsat Norsat International Inc. made a final payment on its $1 million short-term debt, the company announced May 31, marking the first time since 1983 that the company had been […]

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) notified TerreStar Networks Inc. that delivery of the TerreStar-1 satellite has been delayed by 10 months, with a new delivery date scheduled for August 2008, TerreStar announced. […]