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NASA has awarded four small businesses 90-day contracts totaling $902,000 to develop concepts and requirements to provide access to the International Space Station on emerging launch systems. These contracts may...

Spacehab Inc. [SPAB] said it has finalized contract agreements to fly three additional experiments aboard the company’s Research Double Module on a Space Shuttle mission next year. The three new...

Slated For Launch Before The End Of The Year Arianespace launched the Nilesat 102 and Brazilsat B4 satellites aboard an Ariane 4 Aug. 17, in a perfect exercise from the...

Topcon, the $600-million Japanese supplier of optical instrumentation for construction and agriculture, recently announced its acquisition of Javad Positioning Systems, a developer of GPS products for the survey, construction, and...

Swales Aerospace has been awarded a contract by The Boeing Co. [BA] to develop, design, fabricate and test a suite of advanced two-phase thermal control components for NASA’s X-37 Reusable...

Two more modules and a cargo ship for the International Space Station ISS will hit the assembly lines at Russia’s Khrunichev space center.”We are now working on a unified docking...

Industry leaders are not pleased with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) final rules and regulations that go into effect Aug. 30 and will govern the entire remote sensing...

Stratos Global Corp. of Toronto [SGB], a supplier of remote and mobile communications, said it will provide telecom services for more than 600 fixed VSAT sites under a contract announced...

TMI Communications of Ottawa, the mobile satellite subsidiary of BCE Inc. [BCE], has been licensed by the Venezuelan government to market all of its mobilesat services in that country. Together...

Stratos Global Corp. [SGB] said it has signed a three-year agreement making it the exclusive supplier of mobile satellite services to Raytheon Marine Co. in the United States and Caribbean....