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Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] unveiled the Direct Attack Guided Rocket (DAGR) system, developed with company funding, to defeat targets close to civilian assets and friendly forces due to its precise […]

The Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) voted to provide the full $549 million that President Bush requested for the Airborne Laser (ABL), a 100 percent funding move for a program where […]

Atlantis May Not Retire Next Year Spacewalking astronauts on the upcoming Space Shuttle Discovery STS-120 Mission to the International Space Station (ISS) likely will test making repairs to damaged thermal […]

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (Jaxa) launched an unmanned probe to the moon, notching up Asian competition involving the pale orb, according to the Japan Times. Named Kaguya after a […]

Celebrating Half A Century Of American Space Flight The American space program, celebrating its half-century mark, has given birth to a vibrant, expanding economy worth $180 billion in 2005, an […]

Calling reliance on Russia to launch U.S. crews into space "very dangerous," Rep. David Weldon (R-Fla.) is working on legislation that would shorten the time that astronauts would need a […]

Google Inc. will provide the money for a $20 million prize to any non-governmental effort that places a rover on the moon which then performs certain duties, and as well […]

[09-17-07 – Satellite Today] Catherine Guillouard has joined   Eutelsat as CFO and a member of the group executive committee. Guillouard joined Air France in 1997 and served most recently at […]

Arianespace To Launch Four Satellites For Astrium Astrium selected Arianespace to launch four satellites of the space segment of the ELISA demonstrator, Arianespace announced.. The satellites will be placed in […]

[09-17-07 – Satellite Today] Irish National broadcaster   RTE is increasing its satellite communication fleet by two antennas, Advent Communications announced Sept. 17. RTE is purchasing a pair of Newswift 1.2-meter […]

ATK Won’t Protest NASA Awarding Ares I Upper Stage Contract To Boeing Alliant Techsystems [ATK] won’t protest NASA giving the contract for a key next-generation U.S. spaceship component to The […]

[09-17-07 – Satellite Today]  DigitalGlobe‘s WorldView-1 imagery satellite is scheduled to be placed into the orbit Sept. 18 by a Boeing Delta 2 rocket. WorldView-1 was manufactured by Ball Aerospace […]

The Mars exploration rover Opportunity cautiously ventured hardly any way down a slope leading to the floor of the Martian Victoria Crater, then backed out to check wheel slippage. NASA […]

[09-14-07 – Satellite Today] NSSL has become the sole provider of commercial satellite communications for the U.K. Ministry of Defense (MoD), the company announced Sept. 13. The contract, an extension […]

[09-14-07 – Satellite Today] Lunar Orbit Explorer Kaguya was launched successfully at 10:31 a.m. Japan Standard Time,      Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency announced Sept. […]

[Satellite Today – 09-13-07]  SES Global South America Holdings has signed a five-year agreement with AR-SAT for five transponders on the AMC-6 satellite, the company announced Sept. 13. Empresa Argentina […]

[Satellite Today – 09-13-07] Avanti Communications Group’s Hylas satellite will be launched in 2009 using a Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) rocket, the company announced Sept. 13. Hylas, a Ka-band […]

[09/12/07 – Satellite Today]  Shin Satellite has signed a key deal to bring its state-of-the-art satellite broadband services to Malaysia, the company announced Sept. 11. The company has signed a […]

Inmarsat’s announcement earlier this year that the company planned to enter the handheld market is a bold statement of intent. The company aims to be a key player in the […]

[09/12/07 – Satellite Today]  Integral Systems Inc. repurchased more than a million shares of its common stock at $27.00 per share, for a total of $49.95 million, the company announced […]

[09/12/07 – Satellite Today] TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) has been awarded a five-year, $25 million contract to supply the Department of Defense with communications and services, the company announced Sept. 12. […]

The article titled“Proton Failure Destroys JCSAT-11”in the Sept. 6 issue of    Satellite News should have read that ILS had two or three more launches planned before the end of the […]

[09-11-07 – Satellite Today] QinetiQ has developed a secure tracking system based on Iridium satellites, the company announced Sept. 11. The Mobile Asset Information Acquisition (MAIA) system provides a secure, […]

[09-11-07 – Satellite Today]  Arianespace has won a new deal to launch four satellites for a key European space program, the company announced September 11. It has signed a deal […]

[09-10-07 – Satellite Today] Two Indian Air Force pilots broke a world record using Iridium technology, the company announced Sept. 10. The pilots, Wing Commanders Rahul Monga and Anil Kumar, […]

American and Russian negotiators are attempting to work out their deep and bitter conflict over U.S. and European plans to install a U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) system in the […]

Lawmakers are facing tough decisions on whether to proceed with pending proposals to cut vital funding for the Airborne Laser (ABL) program and the planned European ballistic missile defense (BMD) […]

The Airborne Laser (ABL) ballistic missile defense (BMD) system scored well in a test of its beam control/fire control system, according to the Missile Defense Agency and contractors involved. That […]

A key sensor being built for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) passed a critical test last month. Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) is the prime contractor for NPOESS; […]

Proton Rocket Fails In Launch, JCSAT-11 Satellite Lost The Proton Breeze M rocket failed after liftoff while carrying a JCSAT-11 telecommunications satellite for JSAT Corp. of Japan, Krunichev announced. It […]