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MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates [TSX: MDA], of Richmond, British Columbia, signed a multi-year, C$4.5 million contract with an unnamed customer to provide information products using RADARSAT-1 data. RADARSAT-1 uses synthetic...

DigitalGlobe, a Longmont, Colo.-based satellite imagery firm, said that its QuickBird satellite images were used recently by Alaska’s Forestry Division to help firefighters navigate wildfires. Fires began blazing through forested...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has scheduled an August launch for SciSat, a Canadian scientific satellite. The mission marks the first new Canadian scientific satellite to be launched since...

General Dynamics [NYSE: GD] has agreed to buy Veridian Corp. [NYSE: VNX], an Arlington, Va.-based remote sensing and information processing firm, for $35 per share in cash. With the assumption...

A Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT]-led team has completed an accelerated on-orbit checkout of the last Milstar II secure communications satellite and transferred full operational control of the spacecraft to the...

Canada’s Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness (OCIPEP) has purchased 8,800 square kilometers of one-meter IKONOS satellite imagery to be used for disaster risk assessment and emergency preparedness...

At the International Telecommunication Union‘s World Radiocommunication Conference now underway in Geneva, the U.S. government is looking for concrete action on a number of spectrum-related issues, U.S. Ambassador Janice Obuchowski...

105.5 degreesE: Asiasat 3S D The new domestic and international Pakistani TV channel, PTV National, has launched with a free-to-air service on 4108 MHz vertical, SR 6666, FEC 3/4, VPID...

Despite the fact that it is shifting an impressive 100,000 units a month, it appears UK digital terrestrial television (DTT) alternative Freeview is not having an impact on satellite pay-TV...

WorldSpace has high hopes for satellite radio in Europe. The success of XM Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: XMSR] and Sirius Satellite Radio [Nasdaq: SIRI] in the United States has shown that...