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A Soyuz launch vehicle lifted from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to place a Resurs-DK remote sensing spacecraft in orbit. It was the 1,709th launch of a Soyuz vehicle, according […]

Norsat International Inc. announced June 15 it established a maintenance depot in Baghdad to support the in-theater operations of the U.S. Armed Forces. The depot will manned by certified field […]

France and India are celebrating 25 years of collaboration on space programs at events in Paris. The celebration will include Arianspace, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), and the French […]

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. started building the first flight primary mirror segment for NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope, the company announced June 14. Ball Aerospace is the main optical […]

The Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) is slated for launch July 22, according to NASA. STEREO blastoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., is slated for 3:11 to 3:13 […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) has started test of the main engine for the Vega launch vehicle, ESA announced June 15. Test on the engine’s directional control already have been […]

NASA selected Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] to provide an Atlas V rocket to launch the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) in 2009. The Atlas V 541 will lift off from Cape […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

President Bush signed into law a supplemental appropriations bill that provides funding for various space- and missile-related programs in the current fiscal 2006 that ends Sept. 30. For example, the […]

NASA selected GMV Space Systems Inc. to provide mission planning and scheduling software for the first NASA Goddard mission to the moon. GMV’s Flexplan tool, which uses an algorithm generator […]

Planetlink Communications Inc. received a contract to provide GPS-based asset tracking services for a pair of moving and storage companies, Planetlink announced June 14. The agreements expand Planetlink’s deal with […]

Astrata Group Inc. received an order from AST Europe Group AB for 50,000 Fleet Management/AVL devices and associated software, Astrata announced June 14. The order is expected to produce 13.45 […]

A Russian Soyuz rocket launched the Resurs-DK imagery satellite June 15 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, according to Itar-Tass. The satellite can collect imagery with a resolution of 1 meter and also […]

TV Vlaanderen, a new direct-to-home provider in Belgium, signed a deal with SES Astra for more satellite capacity at Astra’s orbital position at 19.2 degrees East. TV Vlaanderen hopes to […]

Raytheon Technical Services Co. LLC signed with the U.S. Navy Inventory Control Point a $31.5 million contract to provide logistics support for the USC-38 satellite communications system. Under the five-year […]

Loral Skynet has launched a group of satellite-based contingency services, the company announced June 15. The services are designed to provide organizations with backup network services in the event terrestrial […]

Sea Launch is scheduled to loft the Galaxy 16 communications satellite into orbit for Panamsat Corp. June 17. The launch, aboard a Zenit-3SL rocket, is scheduled for 3:50 a.m. EDT […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) signed a deal with Spot Image SA that allows the space agency to order more than 10,000 images per year from Spot satellites, ESA announced […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. named Mark Valerio vice president and general manager of special programs for its Space Systems Co, the company announced June 14. Valerio will lead one of Space […]

DirecTV announced June 14 its national operations center would move to Denver in early 2007 to form the hub of all sales and service support for DirecTV. The facility will […]

Skyline Software Systems Inc. has created a Web-based mapping service that provides 3-D imagery of the Earth using a combination of high-resolution satellite imagery, aerial photography and map data, the […]

Google Earth has been updated and released in beta form, Google announced June 14. The Internet-based satellite mapping service has added an interface to allow users to better control the […]

Arabsat has renewed a key partnership with BBC World Service, which will enable audiences in Asia, Europe, Africa and the Middle East to listen to BBC radio. Programming in Arabic […]

Microelectronics Technology Inc. will provide Ku-band satellite terminals to Shin Satellite Public Company Ltd., Microelectronics announced. The company will supply 100,000 Ku-band IPStar Outdoor Unit Systems that will be marketed […]