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Raytheon Co. completed three testing milestones on an advanced sensor engineering development unit for the U.S. government’s National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS), Raytheon announced. Raytheon Space and Airborne...

Satellite operator Intelsat Ltd. has delayed indefinitely the release of its 2005 fourth quarter and full year earnings and may not meet the U.S. government’s March 31 deadline for filing...

EADS Space Services has purchased a 49 percent stake in the London Satellite Exchange, the Exchange announced. The acquisition will strengthen EADS Space Services’ one-stop-shop strategy of providing satellite capacity...

Russian Satellite Communications Co. (RSCC) will place the Express AM-11 communications satellite, damaged in a collision with space junk, into a disposal orbit, the company announced March 30. Express AM-11,...

SES Global completed its $1.2 billion acquisition of New Skies Satellites, SES announced March 30. With the addition of the New Skies fleet, SES and its affiliates will operate 43...

Globecomm Systems Inc., announced March 28 that the company received a contract modification from a U.S. Government prime contractor increasing the base contract by $3.8 million. Under the contract, Globecomm...

Lockheed Martin Space Systems won a preliminary design and concept study start-up contract from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the Mars Science Laboratory aeroshell system. Lockheed Martin will design and...

Euronews, announced March 29 that it is now available on the 3G offer of TMN mobile operator in Portugal. The TMN 3G mobile phone users have access to Euronews live...

Austar, an Australian communications and pay-TV provider, is teaming up with Soul to deliver wireless broadband services in regional Australia. Soul’s Internet Protocol (IP)-based data and voice network will provide...

Intelsat announced March 29 that the Agency for the Safety of Aerial Navigation in Africa and Madagascar (ASECNA) signed a long-term, multi-million dollar contract to expand its use of satellite...