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Raytheon Co.‘s Space and Airborne Systems delivered the first flight-ready GPS system for the U.S. Air Force‘s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter test aircraft, Raytheon announced July 21. The system, which...

The June 21 failure of a Volna rocket that destroyed the Planetary Society‘s solar sail experiment was caused by premature shut-down of the first-stage engine. In its report to the...

Astrata Group Inc. signed an agreement with Denmark’s North Securities ApS to provide a GPS-based vehicle tracking system, Astrata announced July 20. Under the $3 million contract, Astrata will provide...

More than 50 percent of all worldwide digital set-top boxes will be produced in China by 2010, according to IMS Research. In 2004, China produced more than 17 million digital...

DirecTV Inc. added ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp.‘s Filipino entertainment and services package to DirecTV’s lineup. DirecTV also acquired ABS-CBN’s current direct- to-home satellite service subscribers. The deal between the two companies...

SES Astra awarded the manufacturing contract for the Astra 1M television broadcasting satellite to EADS Astrium, SES Astra announced July 21. EADS Astrium will supply the payload and the platform,...

MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. received a contract from the Canadian Space Agency to continue work on the Canadian contribution to a NASA Mars mission, the company announced July 20....

Garmin International, a unit of Garmin Ltd., recently released details on the GPSMAP 376C, a portable GPS navigator designed for maritime use that displays graphical weather data directly on the...

SES Americom announced July 19 it signed a deal to provide satellite distribution services to G4, a television channel dedicated to video games. G4 programming will be delivered to cable...

Encore Networks, a developer of virtual private network (VPN) security solutions, said July 20 that Italian service provider Netdish deployed Encore’s VSR-30 broadband routers to provide satellite backup for terrestrial...