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BSkyB has reached a two-year agreement with the Rugby Football League (RFL) to screen live National League One and Two rugby leagues. Live coverage will begin in April. In Germany,...

SES Americom’s AMC-18 satellite completed in-orbit tests and has begun operations, the company announced Feb. 1. Built by Lockheed Martin and placed into orbit in December by an Arianespace Ariane...

NASA signed Space Act agreements with PlanetSpace Inc. and Transformational Space Corp. to support the companies’ development of commercial systems that could transport humans and cargo to low-Earth orbit, the...

SpaceDev has completed a series of three hot-fire tests of its hybrid upper stage motor, the company announced Feb. 1. The tests, conducted at the company’s test site in Orange...

Days after the catastrophic failure of Sea Launch’s Zenit-3SL vehicle carrying a satellite for SES New Skies, the launch provider is assessing the damage to the launch platform and looking...

DirecTV DirecTV Group will acquire Darlene Investments LLC’s share of DirecTV Latin America LLC, giving DirecTV Group full equity ownership of the Latin American satellite-TV provider, DirecTV announced Jan. 30....

BSkyB’s results released this week saw strong subscriber growth once again with the operator now at over 8.4 million subscribers. However, one of the main talking points among analysts was...

Contact:  Jenn Heinold Senior Tradeshow Marketing Manager 301-354-1813 jheinold@accessintel.com Photos available upon request. For Immediate Release Space Systems/Loral CEO Patrick DeWitt Named Via Satellite Magazine’s Satellite Executive Of The Year...

NASA unveiled a $17.309 billion budget for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2008, a 3.1 percent increase from the $16.792 billion that was requested for the current year. In...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) budget request for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2008, would continue some level of support for major ballistic missile (BMD) programs according to an...