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SpaceDev Inc. will move the operations of its Starsys division from Boulder, Colo., to a new facility in Louisville, Colo., in March, SpaceDev announced Jan. 30. The 72,000- square-foot facility […]

A Sea Launch Zenit-3SL vehicle carrying the NSS-8 satellite for SES New Skies suffered a catastrophic failure Jan. 30, exploding at liftoff. An Internet broadcast of the launch by Sea […]

Contact:  Jenn Heinold Senior Tradeshow Marketing Manager 301-354-1813 jheinold@accessintel.com Photos available upon request. For Immediate Release  More Than 300 Satellite Communications Leaders To Discuss Satellite Technology And Its Impact On […]

A Sea Launch Zenit-3SL vehicle carrying the NSS-8 satellite for SES New Skies suffered a catastrophic failure Jan. 30, exploding at liftoff. As of Wednesday morning, Sea Launch held comment […]

Sea Launch has reset the launch of the NSS-8 communications satellite for SES New Skies for Jan. 30, Sea Launch announced. The 37-minute launch window remains set to open at […]

About 93.9 percent of households in Saudi Arabia own a satellite dish, Middle East telecoms consultancy Arab Advisors reported in “Saudi Arabia Media Survey 2007,” released earlier this month. Showtime, […]

TerreStar Networks Inc. plans to raise $450 million in funding through the sale of senior secured discount notes due in 2015, TerreStar announced Jan. 29. TerreStar, a majority-owned subsidiary of […]

Intelsat plans sell its Silver Spring, Md., teleport, which includes the land, facilities and six antennas ranging in size from 3.8 meters to 10 meters, Intelsat announced Jan. 26. Intelsat […]

XM Radio Online will be included in Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows Vista, XM Satellite Radio announced. XM Radio Online provides more than 80 of XM’s channels and will be […]

The United States will retain its foremost position among nations only if it meets squarely the difficult, dangerous and expensive challenge of exploring space, Michael Griffin, the NASA administrator, asserted. […]

Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] reported progress in the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military satellite communications program. The hardware eventually will be directly applicable to the next-generation Transformational Satellite Communications […]

The Senate Armed Services Committee strategic forces subcommittee met Friday with key government officials to probe a recent Chinese test in which one of its missiles shot down a Chinese […]

LANGLEY AFB, Va.–China’s recent test of an anti-satellite missile is worrisome in highlighting vulnerabilities of U.S. space-based assets, but is not a paradigm-shifting event that will usher in an abrupt […]

Leaders of space agencies in the five nations participating in the International Space Station (ISS) program found it is proceeding well, according to a statement they released after a meeting […]

Space Shuttle Atlantis To Launch March 15 On STS-117 Mission To ISS Space Shuttle Atlantis will launch March 15 from Kennedy Space Center on the STS-117 mission to the International […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a $29 million contract for upgrading radars, including those used in a key ballistic missile defense system. Raytheon will provide sustainment support […]

A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) ballistic missile defense system intercepted a SCUD-type missile, the first time the system has been tested in the open spaces of the Pacific […]

President Bush said “extremists” of many stripes are seeking to kill Americans and gain access to weapons of mass destruction. These elements “slaughter the innocent,” he said, and now are […]

Russia wields hundreds of high-speed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) and therefore has nothing to fear from the United States placing a mere 10 ballistic missile interceptors in Europe, the head […]

The uplink and downlink phased-array antennas developed by Northrop Grumman Corp. for the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) military satellite communications payload have been integrated onto the first flight […]

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. will supply its SkyAbis CDMA2000 to provide satellite backhaul for an unnamed African telecommunications operator’s network, Gilat announced Jan. 23. Gilat will install more than 150,000 […]

Sea Launch has set the launch of the NSS-8 communications satellite for SES New Skies for Jan. 27, Sea Launch announced.  The 37-minute launch window remains as previously planned, opening […]

Belgian direct-to-home operator TV Vlaanderen has surpassed the 30,000-customer milestone, the company announced. The service was launched in the Flanders region of Belgium in June. TV Vlaanderen hopes to ramp […]

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has been awarded a contract to manufacture a direct broadcast satellite for EchoStar Orbital Corp. 2, a subsidiary of EchoStar Communications Corp., SS/L announced Jan. 24. EchoStar-14, […]

Spanish industrial group Abertis has completed the purchase of a 32 percent stake in Eutelsat Communications 1.1 billion euros ($1.4 billion), Abertis announced Jan. 23. Abertis subsidiary Abertis Telecom acquired […]

Globecomm Systems Inc. has received a $13.1 million notice of award from NATO to provide additional systems in support of a multi-national GPS friendly force tracking system, the company announced […]

France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications (FTMSC) signed a new deal with Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) to develop an emergency mobile satellite communications system. The deal was announced at International Aid […]

Sea Launch has set the launch of the NSS-8 communications satellite for SES New Skies for Jan. 26, Sea Launch announced. The 37-minute launch window opens at 6:22 p.m. EDT. […]

William Freeman will be named chairman of TerreStar Networks Inc., Robert Brumley, president & CEO of parent company Motient Corp. said Jan. 24. A formal announcement will be made Thursday […]