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[Satellite Today 03-25-09] NASA’s NOAA-19 spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin and launched in February, completed a 45-day on-orbit verification period, the manufacturer announced March 23.     The satellite, formerly called […]

[Satellite Today 03-25-09] Harris Corp. signed an original equipment manufacturer agreement with Roundbox Inc., a provider of mobile broadcast software, to deliver a mobile broadcast solution for U.S. terrestrial DTV […]

[Satellite Today 03-25-09] United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched the U.S. Air Force’s GPS 2R-M satellite March 24 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.     GPS 2R-M, developed by the […]

[Satellite Today 03-25-09] Hyundai Heavy Industries’ construction equipment division selected Orbcomm’s satellite network to provide global communications for Hi-Mate, a telematics application for heavy equipment, Orbcomm announced March 23.     […]

[Satellite Today 03-25-09] Talia, a supplier of satellite Internet in Africa, the Middle East and Europe, expanded its African services and enhanced a free hardware program designed to support non-profit […]

[Satellite Today 03-25-09]  Satellite Today’s editorial staff will be on-site at the SATELLITE 2009 conference with live updates, daily e-newsletters, exclusive interviews and video coverage.     The SATELLITE 2009 conference […]

[Satellite Today 03-25-09] Intelsat General Corp. has been awarded a multi-year contract from Artel Inc. to supply bandwidth to the U.S. military to support UAV surveillance operations, Intelsat announced March […]

[Satellite News 03-24-09] SATELLITE 2009 opens following a busy 12 months. The sector has seen the emergence of new players, new business models and new opportunities — all coming against […]

[Satellite News 03-24-09] The ability to access funding for business plans has become a lot tougher than it was just 12 months ago, casting a huge shadow not just over […]

[Satellite Today 03-24-09] Miteq has introduced the PA-H Model series, a new product line of medium-power X-band antenna-mount solid-state power amplifier (SSPA) and transmitter product line — the PA-H Model […]

[Satellite Today 03-24-09] The Malaysian government has shipped RazakSat from the Royal Malaysian Air Force Subang airfield to Kwajalein Island, where the satellite will be launched April 21, Malaysian government […]

[Satellite Today 03-24-09]  Satellite Today’s editorial staff will be on-site at the SATELLITE 2009 conference with live updates, daily e-newsletters, exclusive interviews and video coverage.     The SATELLITE 2009 conference […]

[Satellite Today 03-24-09] SAT Corp., a subsidiary of Integral Systems, received a contract from Hispasat to upgrade the carrier monitoring system throughout Hispasat’s network, extending its MonicsNet network to support […]

[Satellite Today 03-24-09] Alliant Techsystems (ATK) signed a $257 million contract with United Space Alliance to perform subcontractor support to ATK for the NASA‘s Ares 1 and Ares 1-X programs […]

[Satellite Today 03-24-09] EchoStar Satellite Services has launched an IP-Prime conversion program designed to provide continued delivery of U.S. video transport services for telco IP headend facilities, EchoStar announced March […]

The CEOs of the four largest fixed satellite services companies will set the tone for SATELLITE 2009, as Romain Bausch, Giuliano Berretta, Dan Goldberg and David McGlade again get together […]

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told a luncheon at SATELLITE 2009 that the company expects to sign deals in the commercial arena for its Falcon 9 launch vehicle this year. The […]

For the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the inevitable transition to an IP-based military satellite communications system has been disruptive for the military, according to DISA Principal Director, Richard Williams, […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] is opening its Altair lunar lander program office in Houston. The company is vying for a NASA contract to design and build the human lander that […]

The NOAA-N Prime spacecraft completed its 45-day on-orbit verification, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. NOAA-N is the final Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) that was launched Feb. 6. Lockheed built […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] demonstrated its Re-Deployable High-Energy Laser System (RHELS) by quickly relocating the prototype weapon system from its Albuquerque development site to a test range, where it tracked […]

A military laser set a record by reaching 105 kilowatts, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. The company used a scalable building block strategy in the test, which was the final […]

GMD System Operations And Sustainment At Stake; Missile Defense Agency Contract Sought Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] will take on The Boeing Co. [BA] in a fight for an operations and […]

The Air Force gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a $23 million undefinitized with firm fixed price contract for production of 70 Maverick Missiles and a guidance and control section. A unit […]

The Navy gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a $106 million contract to produce Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 missiles for the Navy and key allies. The new C-1 variant will be network-enabled, […]

Charles Simonyi will launch Thursday on a Soyuz space vehicle, becoming the first space tourist to visit the International Space Station twice. He is the seventh tourist whose voyage was […]

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) will add a government payload to Sirius 5, a satellite for SES (Euronext Paris:SESG) (Luxembourg Stock Exchange:SESG), currently under construction at the spacecraft manufacturing facility in California. […]

A Proton M rocket in early May will launch the IndoStar II/ ProtoStar II satellite built by The Boeing Co. [BA]. Krunichev built the Proton M in Moscow, and shipped […]

Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D-Calif.), who chairs the House Armed Services Committee strategic forces subcommittee, whom President Obama has chosen for a nonproliferation post in the State Department, made comments […]

[Satellite Today 03-23-09] NDS has opened a research and development facility in China, the company said March 20.     NDS, a supplier of conditional access (CA) and middleware solutions to […]