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Lockheed Martin completed development of the Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO) Interim Operations software for the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS), the company announced. SBIRS is designed to provide early warning […]

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) signed a memorandum of understanding with four specialty hospitals to further expand the space agency’s satellite-based telemedicine network. The network, launched in 2001 on […]

Boeing Co. has agreed to pay the U.S. government $615 million to settle charges of ethical misconduct surrounding the U.S. Air Force’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle 9 (EELV) competition and […]

Spacedev Inc. reported revenues of $7.2 million in the first quarter of 2006, up nearly 300 percent from the same period a year ago, primarily due to the acquisition of […]

Premiere has chosen NDS middleware to help power the German pay-TV operator’s new interactive platform in Germany and Austria. Premiere will deploy NDS Mediahighway middleware, which will enable Premiere to […]

The Australian government will extends its program for subsidizing the purchase of satellite phones for people living or working in remote parts of the country through 2009, the minister for […]

Telenor Satellite Services, a subsidiary of Telenor of Norway, has appointed Robert Baker president of Telenor Satellite Services’ operations and holdings companies in the United States, the company announced May […]

Swe-Dish Satellite Systems AB and Saab AB unveiled a demonstrator for an affordable satcom-on-the-move platform based combining the companies’ existing technologies and commercial -off-the-shelf components. The platform integrates Swe-Dish’s satellite […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Avanti Screenmedia Group PLC signed a contract to begin work on the Highly Flexible Satellite (Hylas) program, a Ka-/Ku-band satellite that will provide broadband […]

A pair of Democrats on the House Science Committee have called for Conrad Lautenbacher, administrator of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to be fired due to problems […]

Eumetsat, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, has signed an agreement with CNES, the French space agency, concerning the European contribution to the Jason-2 Program, an Earth […]

Spacenet Inc. has unveiled its Connexstar SE On-Demand, a new service designed to provide satellite-based mission critical backup and business continuity solutions. The service, based on the Gilat Skyedge VSAT […]

Telenor Satellite Services will offer customers who activate Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service in May and June $1,000 of free airtime, the company announced May 15. This Free Airtime […]

A Northrop Grumman Corp. team completed a series of tests that proved a key element of NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can function in space, the company announced May […]

The Air Force gave Raytheon Co. a $21.8 million firm fixed price contract change to move toward providing advanced medium range -to-air missiles (AMRAAM). Raytheon Missile Systems, of Tucson, Ariz., […]

The Navy awarded Lockheed Martin Corp. a $61.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for work on the fleet ballistic missile (FBM) program. Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space Co. of Sunnyvale, Calif., will […]

Canada and the United States renewed the North American Aerospace Defense (NORAD) agreement, broadening the pact to include guarding against potential attacks from the sea in addition to detecting missile […]

The Pentagon gave Northrop Grumman Corp. a $60.6 million price incentive, firm target contract to acquire long lead parts/advance procurement items for RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). Northrop […]

The Lockheed Martin Corp. Thermobaric Hellfire missile completed two shots at the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) land test ranges in southern California. Both air launches were executed from an […]

The Space Shuttle Discovery moved from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center, Fla., to prepare for launch July 1, or in a window […]

Alcatel and Lucent Technologies filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on their planned trans-Atlantic merger. The statement includes the Alcatel preliminary prospectus outlining the deal, […]

Boeing [BA] tested modified underground silo and launch system components for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) interceptor, the company announced.This opens the way for the silo system to engage in […]

The final report of the NATO Missile Defense Feasibility Study was delivered yesterday to the North Atlantic Council, the alliance’s senior political governing body. Marshall Billingslea, NATO’s assistant secretary general […]

Substantial cuts that congressional authorization panels are making in authorizations for the Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) will delay the anti-ballistic-missile program and limit U.S. choices for defensive systems, Lt. Gen. […]

By Dave Ahearn Members of a House committee lambasted the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program, citing soaring costs, schedules missed and performance fees paid to the contractor […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said the integrated flight test of Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) element met […]

By George Cahlink The House overwhelmingly passed a more than half a trillion-dollar defense authorization bill for 2007, after resisting an attempt to slash spending on some missile defense programs. […]

Four teams are competing for a U.S. Air Force contract to develop an advanced launch vehicle that consists of a reusable first stage and an expendable second stage booster. The […]

DISH Echostar Communications Corp.‘s first quarter profit was nearly cut in half, hampered in part by a charge related to a lawsuit from Tivo Inc. over digital video recorder technology, […]