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Globecast announced Aug. 29 it would deliver National Geographic France HD from Italy to France’s Canalsat through an agreement with the channel’s parent company, Fox International Channels Italy. Globecast is […]

GlobalPositioningSystems.co.uk, a provider of GPS navigation systems, has developed software that adds a GPS function to Blackberry units, the company announced. Telmap Navigator software, combined with an accompanying Bluetooth GPS […]

Radyne Corporation announced that Carl Myron Wagner would serve as its president and CEO, effective with Bob Fitting’s retirement Aug. 31. Wagner arrives from General Dynamics, where he served as […]

Caprock Communications has appointed Randy Neck vice president of marketing. Neck will be responsible for defining and managing Caprock’s global marketing strategy in its efforts to expand across multiple vertical […]

Echostar Communications Corp. will pay $100 million to end a nine-year litigation with ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox Affiliate Associations over the rebroadcasting of local TV programs, Echostar announced Aug. […]

A Texas judge has stopped Echostar Communication Corp.’s patent-infringement lawsuit against Tivo Inc. and Humax USA Inc. over digital video recorder (DVR) technology, Tivo announced Aug. 28. In February, a […]

Satelinx announced Aug. 28 the expansion of its research and development division. Based on its success, Satelinx’s STS-Trakmate, bracelet-type/multi-purpose personal tracking and communication system encouraged the company’s investment into new […]

Wavestream, a manufacturer of high-efficiency solid-state power amplifiers (SSPAs) has named Francis S. Auricchio, Jr. as executive vice president of engineering and technology. Auricchio will manage and oversee Wavestream’s engineering […]

Mobile Satellite Ventures announced that Wade Alt has joined the company as vice president of services distribution and management, and Vijay Venkateswaran has joined the company as vice president of […]

Iridium Satellite LLC on Aug. 27 officially opened its new telemetry, tracking and command/control (TTAC) station in Fairbanks, Alaska in a move to provide additional layers of redundancy, flexibility and […]

Mainstream Data announced that the European Pressphoto Agency (EPA) has doubled the throughput of its satellite/Internet photo distribution network and has implemented Mainstream’s remote site monitoring technology, Medias Hierarchical Alarm […]

GDC Technology launched its second-generation digital cinema (d-cinema) server at the recent Beijing International Radio, TV & Film Equipment Exhibition 2006 (BIRTV) on Aug. 25. The SA2000 DSR Digital Film […]

The Boeing Co [BA] and Hughes Network Systems [HUGHES] demonstrated the space-based delivery of MP-3 files, a streaming video multi-cast and voice over Internet protocol services to a government audience. […]

NASA will name the next-generation American spaceship Orion, a cosmic traveler that will take astronauts to the moon, Mars and beyond, the space agency announced last week. The Crew Exploration […]

Iran launched what appeared to be a long-range missile from a submarine in the Persian Gulf, although the missile traveled but a short distance before successfully striking a target, according […]

The merger of Sky Brasil and DirecTV Brasil has been completed and DirecTV Group Inc. has acquired the interests of News Corp. and Liberty Media in Sky Brasil, DirecTV Group […]

A Proton Breeze M launch vehicle blasted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to place the Hot Bird 8 satellite in orbit. It was the fourth launch of the year […]

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued new grants of authority for three XM radios with FM transmitters, XM Satellite Radio announced Aug. 25. The certification means that three of […]

Koreasat 5, the hybrid military and civilian communications satellite for South Korea, was launched successfully a week ago, Alcatel Alenia Space announced. The Koreasat 5 satellite is owned jointly by […]

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. will provide a Skyedge broadband satellite hub station and VSAT terminals to Empresa Nicaraguense de Telecomunicaciones (Enitel), Gilat announced. Enitel will use the system to provide […]

A test of the ground-based ballistic missile defense system is set for Thursday. The interceptor kill vehicle, which will launch from Vandenburg Air Force Base, Calif., won’t be expected to […]

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) won another in a series of patents issued to the company for its advanced Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) technology. The U.S. Patent Office awarded MSV a […]

Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, predicted it will do well in providing commercial transport flights into space under a contract from NASA. SpaceX predicted that the contracts which NASA handed […]

Assurance Technology Corporation received a contract from NASA, in coordination with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to provide an instrument for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite program, […]

NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration gave Assurance Technology Corp. a $101.7 million dollar contract in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES-R) program, NASA announced. The contract is […]

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. delivered the Nextsat Commodities Spacecraft for Boeing Co.’s Orbital Express, Ball announced. The satellite, being developed for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), […]

NASA announced today that once again it will delay the troubled launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis because of bad weather, putting it off into next month at least, with a […]

By Dave Ahearn The U.S. space program is fraught with funding and safety questions, according to a report to Congress by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. NASA, as it attempts […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] is poised to compete for some $8 billion or more annually in work that NASA will award in coming years, including the Crew Exploration Vehicle (CEV) […]