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The Boeing Co. [BA] and Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] won unanimous 5-0 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) permission to form a joint space launch alliance, Boeing, Lockheed and the FTC announced. […]

Globecomm Systems Inc. announced Oct. 5 that its wholly owned subsidiary, Globecomm Network Services Corporation (GNSC), has been awarded service-contract extensions from Afghan Telecom Corp. valued at $2.1 million. Afghan […]

Some nations might be concerned that any conventional-warhead missile fired from a U.S. Navy submarine might actually be a nuclear device that could blind radars in those nations, analysts said. […]

Comtech EF Data Corp., received a $1 million order for satellite communications equipment to support a satellite-based cellular backhaul network in Southeast Asia. Included in the order are bandwidth-efficient satellite […]

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) received a NASA contract worth up to $750 million, NASA announced. The five-year contract with APL, of Laurel, Md., with the possibility of […]

NASA selected Science Systems and Applications, Inc. of Lanham, Md., to provide science, technology and research support services to the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. The cost plus […]

The Stennis Space Center marked the passing of an era, an end of one long story in the U.S. space program and anticipation of a new chapter. At the largest […]

North Korea announced it detonated a nuclear weapon, drawing strong protest from the United States, with President Bush vowing “an immediate response by the United Nations Security Council.” But he […]

Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] completed acoustic testing on the payload for the first Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO) satellite, the company announced. Northrop will provide the payload to […]

NASA ground crews discovered a hole in the Space Shuttle Atlantis right-hand payload bay door radiator. The hole, about a tenth of an inch in diameter, apparently resulted from something […]

The launch of a satellite on the Soyuz vehicle, which was to have lifted off Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, has been postponed for several days, according to Starsem. Cause […]

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin visited China, meeting with leaders of the Chinese space program and others. Griffin said China has impressive capabilities in space programs, adding that Chinese space personnel […]

The Optus-D1 telecommunications satellite for Australia’s Optus has been mated to its Ariane 5 launcher in preparation for an Oct. 12 launch aboard an Ariane 5 rocket, Arianespace announced. The […]

ND Satcom announced Oct. 5 that it has earned a contract for VSAT systems from France VSAT service provider LCDC Telecoms. LCDC will supply end customer Maurel & Prom, an […]

Russia and India will share use of Glonass, a 24-satellite navigational and global positioning system, the Russian Federal Space Agency announced Oct. 4. Glonass is designed for military and civilian […]

Decarta, a supplier of software platforms and services for the location-based services industry, and Globexplorer, a provider of a commercial library of aerial photos, satellite imagery and geographic maps, have […]

Eagle Broadband Inc.’s new super headend facility at Newcom International’s Florida teleport is operational, Eagle announced Oct. 3. The headend gives Eagle the ability to collect and digitize TV content […]

Two scientists who helped create the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Oct. 3. […]

A U.S. court of appeals on Oct. 3 granted Echostar Communications Corp.’s request to stay a permanent injunction aiming to bar the company from selling digital video recorders after it […]

Boeing Co. will pay SES Americom $70 million as part of the shutdown of the Connexion By Boeing inflight Internet service, SES Global announced Oct. 3. Boeing is using the […]

Sirius Satellite Radio added 441,000 net subscribers in the 2006 third quarter, raising its total base to 5.1 million, the company announced Oct. 4. In the same period, XM Satellite […]

Datapath Inc. announced Oct. 4 that it won a $181 million contract by the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command to provide specialized satellite communications networks for the Joint Network Node (JNN) […]

Zodiac Maritime Agencies Ltd., an international ship-management company, has equipped its fleet of 132 ships with an Iridium Satellite-based e-mail system supplied by And Group. Each shipboard package includes a […]

NDS won a contract from Romtelecom, Romania’s largest telco, to provide a system for a new direct-to-home (DTH) platform, NDS announced. Romtelecom will deploy a full end-to-end system that includes […]

GMV Space Systems Inc. received a contract from Orbital Sciences Corp. to provide flight-dynamics software for the Thor 2-R telecommunications satellite, GMV announced. Orbital received a contract from Telenor ASA […]

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission granted anti-trust clearance to the United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture that will combine the government launch operations of Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin […]

Globalstar Inc. is planning an initial public offering of 6.5 million shares priced at between $16 per share and $18 per share, the company said in an Oct. 2 filing […]

Eutelsat Communications announced Oct. 2 that its Hotbird-3 satellite will begin operations from its new orbital slot at 10 degrees East before the end of October. The satellite, renamed Eurobird-10, […]

Shin Satellite Public Co. Ltd. deorbited its ailing Thaicom 3 satellite following a power loss, the company announced. Thaicom 3, built by Alcatel Alenia Space and launched in 1997, has […]

Globalstar Inc. has partnered with Ocens to launch a suite of data services, Globalstar announced Three services are available to Globalstar subscribers in the United States. Ocens Mail provides capability […]