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Österreichischer Lloyd Ship Management (ÖLSM) is fitting its fleet of ships with Iridium satellite terminals, Iridium announced March 15. One Net Ltd. is supplying and installing the Sailor SC 4000...

Hughes Network Systems LLC latest generation Hughes 9250 mobile satellite terminal has been approved to operate over Inmarsat’s Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN), Hughes announced March 15. The unit is...

Imagery satellite operator GeoEye has acquired M.J. Harden Associates Inc., a Mission, Kansas-based provider of digital aerial imagery and geospatial information products, GeoEye announced March 15. M.J. Harden, acquired from...

SES New Skies received a contract from the Office des Postes et Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT) to provide Internet trunking services to the 118 islands constituting French Polynesia, SES...

Digital TV penetration in the United Kingdom has reached 77 percent, according to a report from communications regulator Ofcom. In the fourth quarter, another million households went digital, bringing the...

Democratic and Republican members of both the House and Senate lavishly and repeatedly praised NASA Administrator Michael Griffin for his excellent leadership of the space agency, but the legislators were...

NASA could accelerate its Constellation program to get Americans back on the moon sooner than now planned, so as to beat the Chinese in their drive toward a manned mission...

The Airborne Laser (ABL) ballistic missile defense (BMD) system worked well in its first in-flight test of the laser targeting system, the Missile Defense Agency reported. In the test Thursday,...

Rep. Ike Skelton (D-Mo.), the House Armed Services Committee chairman, proposed a bill to reform defense contracting. It would curb use of sole source contracts while encouraging use of fixed-price...

Potential budget cuts for the next two years in the United States portion of funding for the U.S., German and Italian-funded Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) air defense missile...