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Norsat International Inc. announced Oct. 6 that it won two contracts by the U.S. Army Central Command. Norsat will supply Newslink portable satellite terminals, audio-video kits, spares, training and maintenance...

Radyne Corp. announced Oct. 9 that its Tiernan division won a contract valued at up to $2.5 million from the Naval Air Warfare Center for video-compression and satellite- transmission equipment....

Spacehab Inc., a provider of commercial space services, announced Oct. 9 that its common stock has closed for more than 30 consecutive days below the minimum $1-per-share requirement for continued...

Harris Corp. Oct. 9 introduced the Falcon-3 multiband, multimission manpack tactical radio, which combines traditional multiband features with new capabilities such as commercial L-band satellite communications. The addition to the...

Raytheon Missile Systems and BAE Systems Bofors’ Excalibur team have delivered the first production Excalibur GPS-guided 155mm artillery rounds to the U.S. Army, Raytheon announced Oct. 9. These projectiles, designed...

Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) announced Oct. 5 that it will close its civil space operation in Goleta, Calif. — also known as Santa Barbara Remote Sensing (SBRS) –...

Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Co. has enhanced its high-speed data product Thuraya DSL to increase the speed of the offering. The terminal’s preliminary design was approved in May, and Thuraya plans...

The European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat) delayed the launch of its Metop satellite to Oct. 17. The announcement came three days after a mechanical incident at...

Global Scan Technologies (GST), a company providing remote sensing and GIS technologies in the Middle East, signed an agreement with Antrix Corp. Ltd. to distribute imagery collected by India’s Cartosat-1...

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced Oct. 5 that the upper composite of Vega, its new small launch vehicle, passed vibration tests at ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre....