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Northrop Grumman Corp. shipped the 23rd and last satellite in the long-running Defense Support Program (DSP) series to the U. S. Air Force’s Cape Canaveral Air Station, FL, for launch...

Globecomm Systems Inc. won two infrastructure contracts from a pair of unnamed international customers valued at approximately $2.1 million combined. The first contract is with a new competitive service provider...

Telesat signed a multiyear agreement with ViaSat Inc. to purchase DOCSIS-for-satellite Ka-band consumer terminals. The terminals, which use a networking technology that utilizes satellite bandwidth more efficiently to lower the...

Iridium Satellite LLC selected Cambridge Consultants as a strategic wireless technology development consultant. In this role, Cambridge will help Iridium evolve the design of its ground-based terminal equipment. Cambridge is...

Xtar LLC said May 11 that the U.S. Department of State‘s Diplomatic Telecommunications Service Program Office awarded the company a five-year contract to provide X-band communications services to U.S. embassies...

Intel, the Institute for Defense Analyses, and SRI International have joined the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC), an international collaborative forum comprised of 65 companies and organizations committed to...

Sanswire Networks LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GlobeTel Communications Corp., said its prototype stratellite, Sanswire One, recently completed an early round of testing. Sanswire One was filled with lifting gas...

Singer/songwriter/author Jimmy Buffett and Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) announced an agreement to broadcast Radio Margaritaville via the Sirius Satellite Radio network. The new 24-hour channel, featuring a wide variety of...

Spacehab Inc. lost $500,000 in its 2005 third quarter as revenue dipped slightly due to delays in NASA‘s space shuttle program, the company reported May 10. Spacehab, which provides space-related...

Lockheed Martin submitted a proposal to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for the definition and risk reduction phase for the agency’s next generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite(GOES-R)...