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By Clayton Mowry Rocket launches, as well as the risks they convey, are part of most satellite executives’ daily lives. Without these expendable launch vehicles (ELVs), we’d have no way...

By Peter Brown Well-established VSAT hardware vendors, satellite operators and other satellite solution providers are starting to roll out a long list of new satellite-based Internet access platforms and services...

Wayne Kauffman has joined Spectrum Astro Inc. as director of West Coast operations, responsible for managing the Manhattan Beach, Calif., office. He will be the company’s liaison with its West...

The Orbital Imaging Corp. subsidiary of Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] will participate in the Geography Network, an Internet-based global marketplace for geographic data and services. Orbimage will supply its high-resolution,...

Technicians at Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK] completed qualification testing of the solid rocket booster motor that will be used as rocket boosters with The Boeing Co.’s [BA] new Delta 4...

Orbital Sciences Corp.’s [ORB] majority-owned Canadian subsidiary, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), has won a $50 million contract for the next-generation robotic arm on the International Space Station. The...

Even though the aviation industry continues to hold the cornerstone for Global Positioning System applications, end users outside the cockpit are not only realizing the value of this satellite technology,...

Doing business in the mobile satellite sector continues to be a challenging feat. The latest low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite system to face a cash squeeze is Orbcomm Global L.P. [ORB], the...

The Boeing Co. [BA] plans to eliminate the jobs of up to 900 workers who work on the Delta launchers and the C-17 military cargo plane in Huntington Beach, Calif.,...

NASA officials were all smiles June 30 when its next-generation of communications satellites successfully reached orbit aboard an Atlas 2A rocket. Marketed by International Launch Services (ILS), The Atlas 2A...