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The 1,713th flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle was performed Sept. 18 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 10:08 a.m. Baikonur time (6:08 a.m., in Paris). It carried two […]

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. announced Sept. 22 that it has been selected by Empresa Nicaraguense de Telecomunicaciones (Enitel) to provide a Skyedge broadband satellite hub station and VSAT terminals. Enitel, […]

Eagle Broadband, provider of broadband, Internet protocol (IP) and communications technology and services, announced Sept. 22 that it began construction of its headend and satellite farm at Newcom International in […]

Siemens Communications announced Sept. 22 that Croatian TV viewers with a broadband connection and set-top box can enjoy MaxTV offered by Croatian T-com, a Deutsche Telekom subsidiary. For the country’s […]

Night Launches, Hubble Telescope Repair Mission Considered The flawless Space Shuttle Atlantis mission STS-115 marked a turning point for NASA, permitting the space agency to enter a full-speed catch-up sprint […]

Costs of procuring, operating and maintaining the missiles-centered U.S. nuclear force structure could be reduced modestly or greatly under multiple outlay-reduction possibilities, according to a new study by the Center […]

Russian leaders would be greatly concerned by any U.S. move to place laser or other ballistic missile defense systems in space, analysts said at a symposium. Depending on how great […]

NATO said a Science Applications International Corp-Raytheon Co. [RTN] team has been selected over two competitors for a six-year, $95 million command and control missile defense system as well as […]

The Air Force gave Science Applications International Corp., [SAIC], of San Diego a $23.2 million, 31-mnoths cost-plus-award fee contract SAILC will investigate and demonstrate, via hardware test and evaluation, the […]

A target missile failure marred a planned Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile interceptor test, the second time in more than six years that a target missile has malfunctioned, […]

NASA should abandon the space shuttles and International Space Station (ISS) programs, and put the money instead into developing manned missions to the moon, Mars and beyond, according to The […]

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) gave General Dynamics Corp. [GD] a $48 million information technology contract, the company announced. General Dynamics Information Technology will provide comprehensive professional information technology (IT) […]

Intelsat Ltd. announced that its IS-802 satellite, located at 33 degrees East, experienced a sudden and unexpected anomaly Sept. 21 at about 8:27 p.m. EDT. The Intelsat satellite control center […]

The Air Force has a shortage of midgrade and senior officers who play vital management and oversight roles in space acquisition, the Government Accountability Office reported. The report, prepared for […]

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) sounded off against signal bleed from satellite radios. On Sept. 21, NAB President and CEO David Rehr urged the heads of XM Satellite Radio […]

Matthew Desch has been named chairman and CEO of Bethesda, Md.-based Iridium Satellite LLC , the company announced Sept. 21. Desch will replace Dan Colussy as CEO of Iridium Satellite […]

NASA has formed a partnership with San Mateo, Calif.-based Red Planet Capital Inc. to establish a strategic venture capital fund for NASA intended to help the agency gain access to […]

Lockheed Martin’s second modernized GPS Block 2R satellite for the U.S. Air Force is set for a Sept. 25 launch aboard a Delta 2 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force […]

Spacehab, Inc. announced Sept. 20 that its Astrotech Space Operations subsidiary won a payload-processing services contract from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for payload- processing support on several NASA spacecraft. Under […]

Ondas Media, which plans to launch a satellite radio service in Europe by 2009, has named John Yates senior vice president of network engineering, Jason Jones vice president of broadcast […]

Harris Corp. announced its first U.S. sale of Intraplex Netxpress, a managed platform for the transport of audio-over-Internet Protocol (IP), to Worldspace Inc., of Silver Spring, Md. In a Sept. […]

Payload integration has begun for Arianespace’s next Ariane 5 mission following the vehicle’s transfer to the Final Assembly Building at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, Arianespace announced Sept. 19. In […]

The Metropolitan Opera and Sirius Satellite Radio announced Sept. 20 that they signed a multiyear agreement to air Metropolitan Opera Radio. Debuting Sept. 25, the channel will feature hundreds of […]

Satlynx is the latest satellite operator looking to capitalize on the potential Ouranos Networks fallout. Many Ouranos customers were left without service, and little is known regarding its return online. […]

The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) is in the process of acquiring satellite tracking equipment and two-way radio communication equipment worth $2.5 million to enhance safety on the country’s railway […]

While more than 40 million global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) receivers were shipped in 2005, by 2011 the market will have grown to nearly 300 million shipments, according to a […]

Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) of Guildford, United Kingdom, has delivered the first of four flight SGR-10 GPS receivers to California-based Spacedev, SSTL announced Sept. 20. SSTL’s Space GPS Receiver, […]

An item in the Sept. 20 edition of Satellite Today, “Spacenet Reinvents Home and Small-Office Satellite Services with All-New StarBand Nova,” should have read “StarBand Nova services include two options: […]

Spacenet Inc. introduced StarBand Nova satellite broadband Internet services for small-office and residential users, according to a Sept. 19 release. StarBand Nova is aimed at independent users looking for reliable, […]