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Satellite telecom operator Globalstar announced it signed a preliminary 7.7 million euro ($9.66 million) agreement with Alcatel Alenia Space to study construction of a new network of 48 satellites. A […]

DirecTV will offer local high-definition (HD) broadcast networks to 67 markets, representing approximately 74 percent of U.S. TV households, after it rolls out 25 more local HD markets by year’s […]

Distributors have reached a deal to provide ABC News Now service via satellite TV available in India, the first time that the network’s 24-hour news carrier will be seen outside […]

Skyterra Communications Inc. announced Oct. 10 that it has executed an agreement with BCE Inc. to acquire BCE’s stake in Mobile Satellite Ventures LP (MSV). As part of the transaction, […]

Eutelsat has confirmed that operations of its W3A satellite have been fully restored to normal mode following an anomaly that occurred Oct. 9. Full commercial service on the satellite resumed […]

Raytheon Missile Systems and BAE Systems Bofors’ Excalibur team have delivered the first production Excalibur GPS-guided 155mm artillery rounds to the U.S. Army, Raytheon announced Oct. 9. These projectiles, designed […]

Harris Corp. Oct. 9 introduced the Falcon-3 multiband, multimission manpack tactical radio, which combines traditional multiband features with new capabilities such as commercial L-band satellite communications. The addition to the […]

Spacehab Inc., a provider of commercial space services, announced Oct. 9 that its common stock has closed for more than 30 consecutive days below the minimum $1-per-share requirement for continued […]

Radyne Corp. announced Oct. 9 that its Tiernan division won a contract valued at up to $2.5 million from the Naval Air Warfare Center for video-compression and satellite- transmission equipment. […]

Norsat International Inc. announced Oct. 6 that it won two contracts by the U.S. Army Central Command. Norsat will supply Newslink portable satellite terminals, audio-video kits, spares, training and maintenance […]

Wilson Ship Management announced Oct. 9 it will fit its fleet of more than 45 ships with Iridium satellite terminals to provide security and e-mail service. Dualog is supplying the […]

Italian cable operator Fastweb and Sky Italia have formed a partnership to combine their services into a single offering for the Italian pay-TV market. Under the terms of the agreement […]

Robert Bednarek is replacing Dan Goldberg as president and CEO of SES New Skies, the company announced Oct. 9. Bednarek joined SES Global in January 2002, initially serving as executive […]

A NASA scientist won the Nobel Prize for physics, NASA announced. The Nobel Prize Committee chose NASA scientist and Goddard Fellow John C. Mather to receive the 2006 prize. Mather […]

Missile defense funding accounts for only a minuscule fraction of total federal spending, the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA) stated. While MDAA expressed gratitude to President Bush and Congress for […]

The Air Force and The Boeing Co. [BA] recently conducted the world’s first firing of a laser using recycled fuel at the Air Force Research Laboratory Directed Energy Directorate, Boeing […]

NASA extended a previous contract action with ATK Thiokol of Brigham City, Utah, to continue design and development of the first stage for the Ares I crew launch vehicle. The […]

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin visited China, meeting with leaders of the Chinese space program and others. Griffin said China has impressive capabilities in space programs, adding that Chinese space personnel […]

The launch of a satellite on the Soyuz vehicle, which was to have lifted off Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, has been postponed for several days, according to Starsem. Cause […]

NASA ground crews discovered a hole in the Space Shuttle Atlantis right-hand payload bay door radiator. The hole, about a tenth of an inch in diameter, apparently resulted from something […]

Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] completed acoustic testing on the payload for the first Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO) satellite, the company announced. Northrop will provide the payload to […]

North Korea announced it detonated a nuclear weapon, drawing strong protest from the United States, with President Bush vowing “an immediate response by the United Nations Security Council.” But he […]

The Stennis Space Center marked the passing of an era, an end of one long story in the U.S. space program and anticipation of a new chapter. At the largest […]

NASA selected Science Systems and Applications, Inc. of Lanham, Md., to provide science, technology and research support services to the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. The cost plus […]

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) received a NASA contract worth up to $750 million, NASA announced. The five-year contract with APL, of Laurel, Md., with the possibility of […]

Some nations might be concerned that any conventional-warhead missile fired from a U.S. Navy submarine might actually be a nuclear device that could blind radars in those nations, analysts said. […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] and Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] won unanimous 5-0 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) permission to form a joint space launch alliance, Boeing, Lockheed and the FTC announced. […]

NASA gave a joint venture of The Boeing Co. [BA] and Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] a $1.1 billion cost reimbursement pact to run space shuttle program operations. The letter contract […]

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R series (GOES-R), which already has seen its price tag soar more than $5 billion, stands in danger of seeing further cost increases, missed schedules and […]