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The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awarded a subsidiary of Nortel Government Solutions a contract with an estimated value of $3 million for systems engineering and software development […]

Loral Skynet partnered with Go2Call to provide Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services to Asia’s telecommunications and ISP/Broadband carriers, businesses and government organizations. The partnership will combine Skynet’s Telstar satellite […]

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. began production June 20 of a full-scale trial unit of the upper and lower domes of the fuel tanks for the H-2B rocket, Japan’s next- generation […]

Boeing announced June 21 that the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES-N) satellite has reached its orbital slot and now is controlled by NASA. The satellite has been renamed GOES-13 and […]

Hughes Network Systems LLC introduced the HX System, a new broadband satellite platform, Hughes announced June 20. The system is intended to offer a cost-effective solution for smaller networks that […]

Panamsat signed a deal with TVBI Co. Ltd. June 19 to distribute Chinese-language programming throughout the Asia Pacific region, the United States and Europe. The signal uplink from Hong Kong […]

The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Stereo Airfield Collection program awarded Geoeye a $3.7 million contract to collect imagery of 365 airfields and produce mapping databases, Geoeye announced June 21. […]

DirecTV Inc. will provide a new luxury programming and service package called DirecTV Titanium, the company announced June 20. The package, priced at $7,500 per year, includes unlimited access to […]

Inmarsat, which took its Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service global by expanding the service into North and South America in May, is looking to make a different kind of […]

Telenor Satellite Services will add a new Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) satellite terminal to its portfolio, Telenor announced June 20. The Wideye Sabre 1, developed by Addvalue Communications Pte […]

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. will build a new ground station for downloading Radarsat data in Italy, the company announced June 20. The station, dubbed Marsec, will join MacDonald Dettwiler’s […]

Maps Geosystems will be the sole distributor of Digitalglobe satellite imagery in the Middle East and sub-Saharan region of Africa, Digitalglobe announced June 19. Maps, headquartered in Sharjah, United Arab […]

S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia has partnered with Intersputnik International Organization to jointly promote satellite networks to government and private organizations, the companies announced June 20. The networks […]

Boeing Co. completed of a series of tests demonstrating the interoperability of the Transformational Satellite Communications (TSAT) Next Generation Processor Router with a government reference ground terminal, Boeing announced June […]

SES Astra Techcom and partner Hitec Luxembourg will provide a pair telemetry, tracking and control antenna systems for Europe’s global satellite navigation system, Galileo, SES announced June 19. Under the […]

Hughes Network Systems LLC received a contract from BP Corp. North America Inc. to provide Hughesnet managed network services to connect BP’s retail locations with headquarters. The four-year contract includes […]

Arianespace will launch Vietnam’s first telecommunications satellite in the first half of 2008, Arianespace announced June 20 Vinasat-1, being built by Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems for Vietnam Posts and […]

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved Intelsat Ltd.‘s acquisition of Panamsat Holding Corp., and Intelsat expects to close the deal July 3, the company announced. “The transaction will be […]

A Russian Proton rocket placed the Kazsat satellite into orbit June 18 for the government of Kazakhstan, according to Russian press reports. The satellite, built by Russia’s Khrunichev, carries 12 […]

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) names Mike Yglesias vice president of RF engineering, the company announced. He will be in charge of the overall design segment of the MSV terrestrial radio […]

Delta Wave Communications Inc. introduced June 17 a GPS-based asset tracking system. Rigtrac is installed onboard a truck and uses GPS coordinates to monitor the movement of the vehicle, sending […]

Garmin will be corporate sponsor and an official supplier of GPS units to the USA Triathlon National Teams Program, USA Triathlon announced June 16. Garmin will provide Edge 305HR+Speed/Cadence Sensor […]

Sea Launch lofted Panamsat‘s Galaxy 16 satellite into orbit, the company announced June 18. The Zenit-3SL rocket lifted off from Sea Launch’s floating platform at the equator at 3:50 a.m. […]

Skylife, the Korean satellite pay-TV operator, has announced a deal with Rainbow HD Holdings to bring high-definition (HD) programming to Korea. According to the terms of the agreement, Rainbow HD […]

The U.S. government will fund vastly expensive NASA missions to the moon, Mars and beyond in coming decades, even though federal finances are constrained by daunting deficits, an industry leader […]

SES Astra has announced that its Astra 1KR satellite is operational. The satellite, launched in April aboard an Atlas 5 rocket, is located at 19.2 degrees East and carries 32 […]

Even as NASA faces a mass exodus of top-talent employees reaching retirement age, it has bought out 1,138 employees in the past four years, raising the specter of a workforce […]

The U.S. Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) performed a drop test of Airlaunch LLC‘s Quickreach launch vehicle from an Air Force C-17, the company announced […]

U.S. negotiators must focus on persuading North Korea to surrender any capabilities to fire nuclear-tipped missiles toward North America, rather than becoming enmeshed in other issues such as counterfeiting of […]

Satellite rivals Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio split the retail sales market in the 2006 second quarter, as the boost Sirius got from the addition of Howard Stern […]