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11-06-07 – Satellite Today]  The Skynet 5B and Star One C1 spacecraft have been fitted to their Ariane 5 launch vehicle in advance of a scheduled Nov. 9 mission, Arianespace...

[11-5-07 – Satellite Today]  Sat-Ge will be providing satellite capacity for Indonesian telecommunications operator PT Telcom, Sat-Ge announced Nov. 1.     PT Telcom will use multiple transponders on the GE-23...

[11-5-07 – Satellite Today]  DataPath Inc. has been awarded $2.9 million to upgrade DataPath terminals used in the U.S. Marine Corps Support Wide Area Network (SWAN) program, the company announced...

[11-5-07 – Satellite Today] Xtar LLC., a joint venture between Loral Space and Communication and Hisdesat, has received a contract from the U.S. General Services Administration to provide information technology...

[11-5-07 – Satellite Today]  Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) has officially broken ground to expand Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), which will serve as the primary launch site for SpaceX’s...

[11-5-07 – Satellite Today] The GPS Block 2R satellite launched Oct. 17 has been declared fully operational following checkout by the U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin, the company announced...

[11-5-07 – Satellite Today]  Space Micro Inc. and DR Technologies Inc. have formed a partnership to develop radiation-hardened structures for the military and space market, Space Micro announced Nov. 2....

Space Shuttle Discovery is poised to wrap up the long 15-day STS-120 mission with a landing just after 1 p.m. ET Wednesday, capping a challenging spacewalk in which physician- astronaut...

House and Senate lawmakers are considering cutting only $85 million from a $310 million funding request by President Bush for the planned European Ground-based Midcourse missile Defense (GMD) program, a...

NASA Sorely Underfunded, Needs Far More Money: Douglass U.S. preeminence in space is fading because NASA is being starved of funding it urgently requires, and that may mean some other...