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The Senate approved a $445 billion military spending bill Oct. 7 that cuts the funding request for several major space-related programs. Senate appropriators cut $7 billion in defense discretionary spending...

Starsem announces Oct. 5 it received a contract from Globalstar LLC to launch a replacement spacecraft for the global satellite telephone operator. The contract call for Starsem to launch a...

Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems received a contract from JSAT Corp. to build JCSAT-11, Lockheed Martin announced Oct. 3. The hybrid spacecraft will be based on Lockheed Martin’s A2100AX platform...

Telesat announced Oct. 3 that is began commercial service on its Anik F1R satellite. The satellite, which carries 32 Ku-band transponders, 24 C-band transponders and two navigation transponders, provides broadcasting...

Digitalglobe announced Oct. 4 that it is planning to launch a second next-generation imagery satellite that will be paired with the first Worldview satellite, being developed under a U.S. government...

Americom Government Services (AGS), a subsidiary of SES Americom, announced Oct. 5 it received a five-year contract to support the Center For Disease Control and Prevention‘s (CDC) Global Disease Detection...

Talkswitch, a company specializing in the design and manufacture of telephone systems for small and multi-location businesses, announced Oct. 5 that it has teamed with Ramtelecom to provide a satellite-based...

Caprock Communications announced Oct. 4 it opened of a new operations center in Ciudad Del Carmen, Mexico. The facility will serve as a regional sales office and technical support center...

Shipping company Maersk Sealand completed a field evaluation of Inmarsat‘s Fleet F77 128 kilobits per second services, Inmarsat announced. “Throughout the trial we found the 128 kbps Fleet F77 service...

Thrane & Thrane said Oct. 5 the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) awarded the company a five-year schedule contract through which government agencies can procure and deploy Thrane & Thrane’s...