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A Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT]-led team has completed an accelerated on-orbit checkout of the last Milstar II secure communications satellite and transferred full operational control of the spacecraft to the […]

General Dynamics [NYSE: GD] has agreed to buy Veridian Corp. [NYSE: VNX], an Arlington, Va.-based remote sensing and information processing firm, for $35 per share in cash. With the assumption […]

Canada’s Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness (OCIPEP) purchased 8,800 square kilometers of one-meter IKONOS satellite imagery for disaster risk assessment and emergency preparedness along the Canada-United States […]

Satellite telephone usage in post-war Iraq is on the rise as U.S. and coalition forces take control of the country, with thousands of users making more than 1 million calls […]

Hughes Network Systems (HNS) has signed an agreement to supply TM SAT, a privately owned Russian satellite service provider, with a DirecWay broadband satellite network. That network would include a […]

France’s Arianespace and Italy’s ELV have signed a collaboration agreement that would enable Vega rocket launches at Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. ELV, as industrial prime contractor, will be […]

Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems, a unit of Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], has been awarded a contract to build two communications satellites for SES Astra, a unit of SES Global […]

Alcatel Space received two contracts worth a combined $340 million to build communications satellites based on its Spacebus 3000B3 platform. One order, worth $190 million, was received from Brazilian satellite […]

Princeton, N.J.-based SES Americom officials contend that their aggressive schedule for deploying new and replacement satellites makes good business sense, despite the general industry view that there is excess satellite […]

By Jimmy Schaeffler The cable versus satellite battlefield was featured during a panel discussion at the recently held National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) conference in Chicago (see SN, June […]

The Inspiration Networks (INSP), a Christian content programmer, has agreed to use PanAmSat [Nasdaq: SPOT] to deliver its message nationwide. The Charlotte, N.C.-based programmer has signed a long-term transponder lease […]

Consumer groups and broadcasters took aim at News Corp’s [NYSE: NWS] proposed acquisition of Hughes Electronics [NYSE: GMH] last week by demanding that restrictions be placed on the combined organization […]

The International Telecommunication Union’s World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) wrapped up its second week in Geneva tackling an ambitious agenda of spectrum-related initiatives. Among the list of 48 agenda items is […]

Boeing [NYSE: BA] is revamping its aviation communications strategy, combining its Connexion by Boeing satellite broadband service with advanced avionics, the company announced during the Paris International Air Show last […]

Boeing [NYSE: BA] announced Monday that it had completed the integrated baseline review for the Global Positioning System (GPS) control segment. Boeing is responsible for the development of the new […]

The launch of the second Mars Exploration Rovers, named “Opportunity,” aboard a Boeing [NYSE: BA] Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla., has been delayed until “no earlier” than June […]

Hughes Network Systems (HNS), a Germantown, Md.-based broadband satellite unit of Hughes Electronics [NYSE: GMH], has agreed to provide Czech telecommunications firm GiTy with a DirecWay broadband satellite network, including […]

Alcatel Space and SkyBridge, subsidiaries of Paris-based Alcatel [NYSE: ALA], have agreed to take a combined 17.9 percent stake in SatLynx, a European satellite broadband venture formed by SES Global […]

Rio Grande Electric Cooperative (RGEC) is using satellite communications to monitor energy conditions across its rural energy distribution network. As part of its new enterprise energy management system, the Texas-based […]

William C. Pratt has been named chief information officer (CIO) at New York-based Sirius Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: SIRI]. Pratt joins Sirius from McGraw-Hill Education, where he served as senior vice […]

The delivery of Thursday’s and Friday’s issues of SATELLITE TODAY were delayed due to technical problems. We apologize for the inconvenience.

French launch service provider Arianespace has ordered 30 new Ariane 5 ECA heavy-lift rockets from prime contractor European Aeronautic, Defence and Space Co. (EADS). The two companies announced Friday at […]

Alcatel Space and Astrium have signed an agreement for the joint production and marketing of high-powered satellites that will use the European AlphaBus platform developed by the two companies with […]

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Trimble [Nasdaq: TRMB] has agreed to acquire privately held Applanix, an Ontario, Canada-based Global Positioning System (GPS) device maker, in a stock transaction valued at C$25 million (US$18.6 […]

Orbital Sciences [NYSE: ORB], a Dulles, Va.-based satellite manufacturer, said it expects to report second quarter revenues of between $152 million and $157 million, operating income between $1 million and […]

EMS Satellite Networks, a division of EMS Technologies [Nasdaq: ELMG], Nera Broadband Satellite and the Newtec Group have successfully demonstrated DVB-RCS open standard interoperability for their broadband satellite products. Each […]

EMS Technologies [Nasdaq: ELMG], through its Space & Technology/Montreal division, has completed delivery of the last of three Inmarsat-4 L-band antenna feeds to Astrium Ltd. located in Portsmouth, England. These […]

National Bicycle Industrial, an affiliate of Japan’s Matsushita Electric Industrial [NYSE: MC], has introduced the industry’s first electric bicycle equipped with a Global Positioning System (GPS) device linked to security […]

Due to a technical problem, Thursday’s SATELLITE TODAY was not sent out until today. We apologize for the delay.

The U.S. and European delegations are close to a compromise on lowering the minimum dish size for fixed satellite services (FSS) in the 13.75-14 GHz band in exchange for power […]