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China Satellite Communications Corp. (China Satcom) completed its deployment of about 1,000 Gilat Skyedge VSATs, Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. announced April 11. The VSATs will provide rural telephony services in […]

ViaSat Inc. received a contract from DirecTV Inc. to supply four antenna systems to for use with high-definition TV services, ViaSat announced. ViaSat will provide four 9.1-meter Ka-band earth station […]

World Communication Center (WCC), a provider of global satellite voice and data communications, announced April 10 the addition of three business experts to its board of directors Ed Gorman, founder […]

Ultra Electronics-DNE Technologies released its new secure digital voice order wire interface option module for the CV-MCU product line, the company announced April 11. The new module, dubbed the CV-FOM-D/OW, […]

Arianespace received a contract from Mitsubishi Electric Corp. to launch the Superbird-7 communications satellite in the first quarter of 2008, Arianespace announced April 10. Superbird-7 is being built by Mitsubishi […]

Arrowhead Global Solutions Inc. signed a master service contract with Xtar LLC to market and lease X-band capacity to U.S. and allied government agencies, Xtar announced April 10. Xtar, a […]

Wildblue Communications added five additional value-added resellers to its list of providers in the enterprise market, Wildblue announced April 10. Dove Digital Services, based in Louisiana; Horizon Technical Services Inc. […]

Sweden’s Saab Ericsson Space and Austria’s Austrian Aerospace have been selected to develop and manufacture onboard equipment for the first four satellites for Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system, the companies […]

SES Global added New Skies CEO Dan Goldberg to its executive committee, SES Global announced. The move follows the completion of SES Global’s acquisition of New Skies in March. Goldberg, […]

Hughes Network Systems LLC unveiled April 10 its HughesNet High Availability Networks, the first new offering under the company’s recently announced HughesNet Managed Network Services. The service, targeted for enterprise-level […]

GMPCS Personal Communications, a subsidiary of Telenor Satellite Services, announced April 10 that it has begun supplying the Hughes 9201 broadband satellite IP terminals to customers. Inmarsat hasgiven the terminal […]

NASA has selected Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, Md., for the Laboratory for Atmospheres Scientific and Technical Support Services contract. The award is a five-year cost-plus award fee, indefinite […]

Northrop Grumman Space and Mission Systems Corp., Redondo Beach, Calif., is being awarded a $16.6 million cost plus award fee contract modification to provide for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental […]

The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, Mass., is being awarded a $26.9 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to provide repair and recertification of MK-6 guidance systems, including pendulous integrating gyroscopic accelerometers, inertial […]

Raytheon Co., Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $29.5 million cost-plus-award-fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-03-C-5330) to provide engineering and technical services in support of the Standard Missile-2 Guided […]

Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems and Solution, Santa Maria, Calif., has been awarded a $408 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract. This contract is basic ordering period for four years and ten […]

The Missile Defense Agency is awarding the Raytheon Co., of Woburn, Mass., a cost-plus-award-fee letter contract. This contract is to upgrade the early warning radar at Thule Air Base, Greenland. […]

BY KEITH STEIN The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Space Vehicles Directorate (VS), announced last week they are ready to accept detailed cost and technical proposals for a Flight Demonstration […]

BY RICHARD MULLEN The lack of a "viable strategic plan" at the Pentagon for developing and acquiring unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has resulted in a wide range of problems in […]

If a large asteroid such as the recently identified 2004 VD17 – about 500 meters (1,640 feet) in diameter collides with the Earth it could spell disaster for much of […]

Globalstar has awarded Alcatel Alenia Space a study contract for the design of a new satellite constellation aiming at replacing Globalstar’s first generation satellites. In the frame of this study, […]

BY KEITH STEIN A developing and growing economy in China has caught the space bug and is dedicated to a "slow" but bold space exploration program, according to the Center […]

BY KEITH STEIN A developing and growing economy in China has caught the space bug and is dedicated to a "slow" but bold space exploration program, according to the Center […]

Despite the projected delay of at least several years in the first launch of the United States’ next-generation weather satellite, the availability of current environmental sensing spacecraft should prevent a […]

XMSR XM Satellite Radio added more than 568,000 net new subscribers during the first quarter of 2006, bringing its total number of subscribers to more than 6.5 million, the company […]

Turksat CEO Osman Dur believes satellite communications will play a vital role on the Turkish communications landscape, and the government-owned operator is involved in many projects to bring higher quality […]

An international team of scientists are working at a rapid pace to study environmental conditions behind the fast-acting and widespread coral bleaching plaguing Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Data from NASA […]

Thales agreed to acquire Alcatel‘s 67 percent stake in satellite manufacturer Alcatel Alenia Space, the companies announced April 5. Thales will issue 26.7 million shares of stock to Alcatel and […]

LEO or GEO? That’s the question being pondered by Globalstar, as its first-generation fleet of 40 low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites ages. With the fleet designed to last into 2010, "we […]

As of January, 6.7 million homes in France received channels from Eutelsat Communications‘ Hot Bird neighborhood, the company announced April 6. The findings are included in Eutelsat’s 2006 Survey on […]