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The new race to space is steaming full speed ahead as competition grows within the X Prize family. Canada’s first entrant–The da Vinci Project–was approved July 17. Bran Feeney, the...

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. won a $3.9 million contract from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center and the U.S. Air Force to develop and test lightweight mirror segments for ultra-light...

Amsterdam-based MirCorp and GPC International have signed an agreement that opens the Russian space station for sponsorship and advertising opportunities. “This agreement is a historic step in space commercialization,” Andrew...

Exigent International Inc. [XGNT] has been awarded a contract for software engineering services from Lockheed Martin Management Data Systems [LMT] in support of the U.S. Air Force’s Space-Based Infrared System...

The U.S. Air Force officially authorized production of the first EELV launch mission July 11, mobilizing The Boeing Co.’s [BA] Delta 4 officials into high gear. A Delta 4 Medium...

Comsat Corp. [CQ] has won a three-year, $9 million contract to provide Internet access at 90 megabits per second – the equivalent of about 500 pages of text per second...

GlobeCast, the worldwide broadcasting arm of France Telecom [FTE], plans to launch a broadband service providing Internet access to the Indian subcontinent from the Europe*Star 1 satellite later this year....

EMS Technologies Inc. [ELMG] which recently won a contract for more than 15,000 broadband, Ka-band, two-way VSAT terminals for service with SES/Astra’s 1H satellite, has subcontracted with Norsat International Inc....

Leo Mondale, 41, has been named president of Arianespace Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of the European launch company, and hopes his hard-learned lessons at Iridium LLC will help him in...

Motient Corp. [MTNT], formerly American Mobile Satellite Corp., has formed a new subsidiary, Motient Satellite Ventures LLC, and announced a $50 million investment from an investment group consisting of Columbia...