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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, has a 10th launch on its manifest, the company announced. Late this year, SpaceX will use the Falcon 1 rocket in a launch for...

By Michael Sirak KEYSTONE, Colo.–The Air Force is drafting the design of a long- range strike missile that eventually would succeed the conventionally armed Trident D-5 submarine-launched missiles that the...

KEYSTONE, Colo.–Having determined that it intends to operate the nation’s Minuteman III nuclear-tipped ICBM fleet beyond 2020, the Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) has laid out the modernization priorities needed...

The Boeing Co. [BA] may win Canadian military contracts for more than US$7 billion of helicopters and transport aircraft because competing firms may not qualify for the work. As well,...

Myriad launches are keeping launch pads busy, according to announcements: In mid-July, there will be a missile defense test involving the Theater High-Altitude Area Defense system. On July 22, NASA...

Telefonica International Wholesale Services signed with Inmarsat to distribute the Broadband Global Area Network service to Telefonica Wholesaler’s own channels. The contract will allow Inmarsat access to the 19 countries...

Eumetsat, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, completed commissioning of the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG-2) satellite, Eumetsat announced. The spacecraft is being prepared for relocation to 0°...

Eutelsat‘s Hot Bird 8 satellite was delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan July 6, in advanced of a scheduled Aug. 5 launch aboard a Russian Proton rocket, International Launch...

MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) won a pair of contracts to provide components supporting regional satellite services in North America and Europe, the company announced July 6. The contracts...