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Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] said it successfully launched a Minotaur rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., July 19 carrying a multiple-experiment satellite for the Defense Department. At 4:09 p.m....

Spot Image Corp. has been named a U.S. Geological Survey business partner to distribute commercially Landsat 7 satellite images. To be named a business partner, Spot committed itself to the...

Sea Launch officials breathed dawned smiles July 28 when the Russian and Ukrainian-built Zenit 3SL rocket rose from the Odyssey platform and successfully delivered its payload into orbit. Now, Sea...

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co. Ltd. (HCM) selected Orbcomm Global L.P. to monitor, track and control its fleet of general-purpose hydraulic excavators. The Information Excavator system, developed jointly by HCM and...

Globalstar USA said it has expanded the geographic coverage of its services to include almost all of Alaska, regions of the North Pacific to the International Date Line, portions of...

PhoenixNet Ltd. signed an agreement with Yahoo! Hong Kong to provide broadband-enabled services via satellite across the Asia Pacific region. According to the agreement, PhoenixNet will provide Yahoo! Hong Kong...

The Societe Europeenee des Satellites, the Luxembourg-based satellite broadcaster that plans to start delivering the Internet via satellite later this year, and iBEAM Broadcasting Corp. [IBEM], a two-year-old Silicon Valley...

Final Analysis Inc., which is building a Little LEO satellite system for data communications, has awarded further satellite construction contracts to General Dynamics Corp. [GD] and L-3 Communications Holdings Inc....

iSky completed a second round of financing, raising $137 million, toward the first phase of its planned Ka-band satellite system. Echostar Communications Corp. [DISH] was the lead investor in the...

LAS VEGAS – The advent of satellite-delivered broadband services is one of the most “exciting” developments in the industry, Chuck Hewitt, president of the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association (SBCA),...