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[Satellite News 02-05-09] SingTel is set to announce details of a new satellite with an as yet unnamed new partner, Titus Yong, SingTel’s vice president of satellite told Satellite News. […]

[Satellite News 02-04-09] European Satellite Operators Association (ESOA) Secretary General Aarti Holla-Maini is preparing for a busy year as she looks to lobby the European Commission (EC) to provide funds […]

[Satellite Today 02-04-09] Arianespace signed a contract with Hispasat to launch the Hispasat 1E satellite, Arianespace announced Feb. 3.     The satellite will be built by Space Systems/Loral using an […]

[Satellite Today 02-04-09] Telecommunications Consultants India selected Gilat Satellite Networks for a contract to provide Nepal Telecom with a SkyEdge VSAT broadband satellite communications network covering hundreds of sites, Gilat […]

[Satellite Today 02-04-09] AsiaSat signed a capacity deal with France 24 to distribute the international news channel throughout the Asia-Pacific region using AsiaSat 2’s C-band platform at SatLink Communications, AsiaSat […]

[Satellite Today 02-04-09] Iran launched Omid, its first domestically made satellite, Feb. 2, Iranian state radio reported.     The satellite, designated to monitor natural disasters and earthquakes, was taken into […]

[Satellite Today 02-04-09] Thaicom signed a deal with Real Metro Co. to distribute seven channels across Thailand, the company announced Feb. 3. The channels are operated and run by Real […]

[Satellite Today 02-04-09] Xicom Technology unveiled a new line of lightweight high-power traveling wave tube amplifiers for domestic and international satellite communications, the company announced Feb. 3. The amplifiers operate […]

[Satellite Today 02-04-09] Integral Systems reported increases in revenue and gross profit despite unusually high legal and auditing costs in its first quarter 2009 financial report released Feb. 3.      […]

[Satellite Today 02-04-09] Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS) sold and installed its first Iridium-based compliant Long Range Identification and Tracking (LRIT) system to a French flag ship, CLS announced Feb. 3. […]

[Satellite Today 02-03-09] SkyDelta unveiled a new satellite Internet platform based on DVB-S2 technology from Efficient Channel Coding, SkyDelta announced Feb. 2.     Dubai-based Sky Delta intends to provide a […]

[Satellite Today 02-03-09] PeopleNet has chosen Quake Global to provide satellite communicators for its dual-mode wireless asset tracking, communication, and management system, Quake announced Feb. 2.     PeopleNet will be […]

[Satellite Today 02-03-09] Eutelsat Communications and partners Numeo and Sat2Way launched a broadband access service in France, Eutelsat announced Feb. 2.     The initiative is consistent with action one of […]

[Satellite Today 02-03-09] Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement retained an Inmarsat FleetBroadband system from Stratos Global to manage merchant vessel Marianne Schulte’s daily operations at sea, Stratos announced Feb. 2.     The […]

[Satellite Today 02-03-09] The board of directors at Gateway Broadcast Services, which runs the GTV DTH service in sub-Saharan Africa, approved a plan to liquidate the company, Gateway announced Jan. […]

[Satellite Today 02-03-09] SES New Skies signed a capacity deal with Caprock Communications, the company announced Feb. 2.     CapRock Communications, a provider of enterprise satellite communications to oil, mining, […]

[Satellite Today 02-03-09] In its current form, the U.S. House of Representative‘s version of President Obama’s nearly $6 billion proposed Broadband Stimulus Bill mentions satellite applications only twice in its […]

[Satellite Today 02-03-09] Arianespace signed a contract valued at more than 4 billion euros ($5.1 billion) with Astrium for the production of 35 Ariane 5 ECA launchers, Arianespace announced Feb. […]

[Satellite News 02-03-09] In its current form, President Obama’s nearly $6 billion proposed Broadband Stimulus Bill mentions satellite applications only twice in its 258 pages.     The first mention of […]

A ground control system has shown it can control a Global Positioning System (GPS) asset, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced today. The unit demonstrated command and control of a GPS […]

After a two-year, top to bottom renovation, the High Bay Facility of the Operations & Checkout (O&C) Building at Kennedy Space Center is ready to begin preparations to build the […]

The first Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO-1) satellite, completed a test using new flight software permitting highly reliable spacecraft command and control operations, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. […]

The Department of Defense Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) office recently released a request for information (RFI) to help accomplish the office develop a rapid response space center, called Chileworks. U.S. […]

Raytheon Co. [RTN] named William Hart to leads its space business. Hart, who joined Raytheon in 1975, was named vice president for Space Systems. He succeeds Brian Arnold, who was […]

The U.S. Army gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a $154 million foreign military sales contract for Taiwan to receive Patriot upgrades, the company announced. That move comes as China continues objecting […]

Updated — January 23, 2009 – 2:45 p.m. EST Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: Feb. 4 Mission:NOAA-N Prime Launch […]

Autonomous Solutions, Inc. (ASI) delivered two unmanned target ground vehicles to the Air Force Range Management Office at Luke Air Force Base. Additional unmanned target systems have been installed by […]

The U.S. Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) worked in a British M270B1 launcher, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. That test launch was conducted at White Sands Missile Range, N.M. Observers […]

The launch of the Koronas-Foton sun-scanning satellite atop a Tsiklon-3 rocket has been postponed indefinitely, Russian mission control announced, according to the Itar-Tass news agency. Officials didn’t say why the […]

The forward skirt extension of the next-generation Ares I-X rocket passed a separation test, NASA announced. Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK] conducted the test at its Promontory, Utah, facilities. The rocket […]