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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) finalized a previously announced satellite contract award to provide a new satellite to Intelsat. SS/L is ), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications [LORL]. "This will...

The Army gave Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] a $371.6 million firm fixed price contract for further work in the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) Full Rate Production IV initial...

The Mars rovers, which NASA designed to send spectacular pictures of the red planet back to Earth, are still going some five years after landing in the alien world. That...

NASA denied a news report that the White House killed a U.S.-China space cooperation deal. Contrary to a news report, NASA never asked the White House for a cooperative mission...

Liftoff Seen Soon A Falcon 9 rocket has been fully integrated at Cape Canaveral, Fla., poised for a liftoff early this year, Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, announced. The...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has advanced modeling and simulation for missile defense testing, the agency announced. MDA oversaw successful execution of Flight Support Ground Test 03b (GTF-03b). The GTF-03b...

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, completed thermal vacuum testing, NASA announced. Those tests simulate extreme hot, cold and airless conditions of space that LRO will experience after launch. This...

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] delivered the spacecraft bus subsystems for the emergent Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) satellite, Lockheed announced. It will be the second geosynchronous orbit (GEO-2) satellite in the...

Satellite connectivity while driving traditionally has been possible by using handheld, pay-by-the-minute satellite phones. More recently, always-on services have come to the forefront by using satellite tracking antennas installed on...

January marks the inauguration of President Barack Obama and offers a good moment to review what the space policy of the new administration likely will be. Clearly, any incoming president...