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Arianespace’s sales and net income for 1999 slipped slightly from 1998 levels, the France-led launch organization reported at its annual meeting May 30. Sales for 1999 fell to about $908.5...

Ames Research Center–Information technology development, flight research, experimental aircraft development, early aircraft design; Dryden Flight Research Center–X-plane flight tests, early Space Shuttle tests, early Space Shuttle landings, current X-craft flight...

Astrium recently inked a significant deal with Arianespace to provide 20 Ariane 5 vehicle equipment bays (VEBs). The contract is worth more than 150 million euros or US$140 million. Under...

A flair of entrepreneurial spirit rocked the aerospace industry May 17 when the five-member Web start-up company Dreamtime Holdings Inc. snagged a NASA contract to commercialize the agency’s 85-year-old film...

With all the buzz swirling around the Internet via satellite sector, one would think contracts totaling approximately $16 million won by NetSat Express Inc. would spark an interest in its...

Akamai Technologies Inc. [AKAM] of Cambridge, Mass., has announced two major programs to deliver Internet content by satellite – one with Loral Corp. [LOR], the other with Cidera Inc. Loral...

SSE Telecom Inc. [SSET] of Fremont, Calif., and Harmonic Data Systems Ltd. (HDS) have agreed that SSE will provide its VSAT earth stations to HDS’s customers for two-way Internet access....

Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] could very well end up being the little mobile satellite company that could. In spite of a slow start and mounting criticism from the financial community, the...

Orbcomm de Mexico, the Orbital Communications Corp. [ORB] licensee for Mexico and most of Central America, has received its license from the Mexican Secretaria de Communicaciones y Transportes and launched...

The death of Irving Goldstein last Friday has led key industry officials to recall the substantial contributions he made to the satellite industry at critical times during its development. As...