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Virgin America airline and EchoStar Communications Corp. will offer an 18-channel programming package starting Aug. 8 to afford passengers live, in-flight satellite entertainment, the companies announced July 20. Programming will...

BT is rolling out a sports-content package which promises customers a low-cost option for watching Premiership soccer. BT hopes its offering will tap into a market unwilling to pay more...

Analyst: Satellite Industry Could Find Opportunity In Working With WiMax While many in the satellite industry fear the potential loss of some C-band spectrum to terrestrial providers, by working together...

Presidential candidates and officeholders of both parties roundly condemned as a serious threat moves by Iran to deploy advanced missiles and to produce nuclear materials, in statements from the solons...

NASA carefully studied the potential risks that might be created today when International Space Station (ISS) Astronaut Clay Anderson lobs hugely heavy, unneeded components into the void of space, deciding...

North Korea may become a permanent nuclear-power state by the time a newly elected U.S. president takes the oath of office in January 2009, some 18 months hence, according to...

A group of former Northrop Corp. engineers who worked on the Apollo moon landing program said exhaustive testing of failure causes, multiple redundancies in systems, and a driven desire to...

Congressional Democrats, as they criticize and cut budget funds for the U.S. ground-based midcourse missile defense (GMD) system planned for Europe, are playing into the hands of Russian President Vladimir...

The House approved a $30 million increase in funding for the Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) to $117 million in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2008, the Aerospace Industries Association...

An intense and long-running summertime dust storm has imperiled the Mars Rover Opportunity and, to a lesser degree, its sister rover Spirit, NASA reported. The craft already have lasted more...