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Airborne Systems received a contract to provide the parachute recovery systems for Space Exploration Technologies Corp.’s Falcon 9/Dragon system, Airborne announced May 23. Airborne Systems will design and manufacture parachutes […]

ViaSat Inc.’s MD-1366 Enhanced Bandwidth Efficient Modem (EBEM) has been certified by the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) for operation over the Defense Satellite Communications System Network, ViaSat announced […]

ICO has been notified by the U.K. Office of Communications (Ofcom) that the satellite operator must show progress toward the launch of its ICO-P mobile satellite system by June 30 […]

Thrane & Thrane introduced its Aero-SB cabin communications system at the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition in Geneva, the company announced May 21. Based on SwiftBroadband from Inmarsat, Aero-SB […]

Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings (AsiaSat), a provider of satellite transponder capacity, reportedly may delist from the New York Stock Exchange nearly a month after its largest shareholders failed to take […]

The Nigerian Communication Satellite, or Nigcomsat-1, has reportedly taken up its final position at a longitude of 42° East after changing orbital position five times throughout the last week. Launched […]

One day after XM Satellite Radio subscribers nationwide experienced unexpected service outages or significantly degraded service, the broadcaster announced that normal service levels had been restored. In a May 22 […]

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) has been awarded a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for antenna-configuration techniques that reduce interference between terrestrial and satellite links. U.S. Patent No. […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Supervisory Authority of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GSA) have signed a cooperative agreement between the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) and […]

EchoStar Communications Corp. won a patent infringement lawsuit filed by Forgent Networks Inc., EchoStar announced May 21. In a statement, EchoStar said “a Texas jury today returned a verdict in […]

SDN Global, a provider of global broadband satellite communications solutions, announced May 21 that Philip Arcoria has joined the company as its senior vice president of sales, marketing and business […]

Multimax Inc. has been named to a Lockheed Martin team providing communications infrastructure, including satellite services at 13 military bases in Iraq, Afghanistan, and six other nations, Multimax announced May […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on May 18 making access to civilian navigation signals from the Glonass navigation satellite system free and without restriction, the Kremlin press service […]

Iridium Satellite will be an official supplier to Connect Africa, a not-for-profit organization aiming to introduce mobile communication and public service facilities to rural communities across Africa, Iridium announced May […]

Al Yah Satellite Communications Co. (YahSat) selected a consortium of EADS Astrium and Thales Alenia Space to build a communications satellite to serve the Middle East and surrounding regions, YahSat […]

XM Satellite Radio reported “experiencing a temporary degraded performance issue, which has affected some of our customers” on May 21. The company said it expected to return to normal service […]

Apposite Technologies Inc. unveiled its Linktropy 7500 and Linktropy 7500 Pro wide-area network emulation appliances May 22, the company announced. The emulators simulate bandwidth, delay, packet loss, congestion and other […]

DigitalGlobe will work with LocatioNet Systems Ltd., a provider of mobile mapping and location applications, to add a satellite imagery capability to the Amaze mobile navigation and mapping service, the […]

Tandberg Televison will provide a next-generation digital video system to Turkish direct-to-home operator, Digiturk, Tandberg announced May 21. The new system will help Digiturk, which has about 1.1 million subscribers, […]

By Jen DiMascio Stressing national security threats around the globe, a number of House Republicans are pushing strongly to restore money cut from the Missile Defense Agency budget in the […]

Terrorists have fired more than 60 Qassam rockets into Israel in the past week, wounding a mother and her four-year-old child and injuring dozens of other civilians, according to the […]

China is developing an anti-ship ballistic missile to attack U.S. aircraft carriers during any Chinese invasion of Taiwan, according to the Sankei Shimbun, a newspaper in Japan. While China has […]

NASA gave General Dynamics Corp. [GD] a contract for a Landsat Data Continuity Mission spacecraft accommodation program. In the $600,000, four-month assignment, General Dynamics will identify a spacecraft design and […]

Two Trident Missiles Launched During Test In Atlantic Two Trident II D-5 Fleet Ballistic Missiles were fired in a Navy test in the Atlantic Range, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. […]

BAE Systems formed a team of contractors to help it win an avionics contract for avionics in the next-generation Ares I crew launch rocket. The Orion crew exploration vehicle to […]

By Jen DiMascio The Pentagon is planning to move toward a competition for the Joint Air to Ground Missile (JAGM), a follow-on program to the Joint Common Missile (JCM), within […]

South Korea’s Ministry of Science and Technology plans to begin selling images collected by the Arirang-2 satellite to foreign countries through France’s Spot Image.   Korea’s Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported […]

By Jen DiMascio and Dave Ahearn The House approved a bill to fund military and missile defense operations in fiscal year 2008 that the president is threatening to veto. In […]

Eagle Broadband Inc. delivered a SatMax Alpha Emergency Communication System for use in a classified U.S. government program, the company announced May 18. The portable system allows use of Iridium […]

NASA gave Pride Industries a contract worth up to $36 million for facilities maintenance. The company, of Roseville, Calif., is to provide facilities support and maintenance operations at Dryden Flight […]