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Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] said that it has agreed to sell its Fairchild Defense electronics business, which supplies avionics for military aircraft, to a U.S. subsidiary of Smiths Industries plc, […]

Eutelsat, the other pan-European satellite operator, has responded to the expansion of Societe Europeenne des Satellites (SES) into the South American market, by opening its first Latin American subsidiary, Eutelsat […]

Societe Europeenne des Satellites (SES), the Luxembourg-based operator of the Astra satellite system, reported a profit of $97.8 million, or $2.63 per share, on total revenues of $347.4 million for […]

Mission control specialists were all smiles as the Space Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis touched down at Cape Canaveral Air Station, Fla., Sept. 20 at 3:56 a.m. EDT bringing the STS- 106 […]

Some industry analysts concur that the next decade will yield minor growth for business ventures within the remote sensing industry. According to the Teal Group‘s study The Commercial Earth Imaging […]

In addition to management reorganization efforts that are under way, future NASA space science projects simply will need more money if they are to avoid failures like the ones that […]

Project managers for Raytheon Systems Co. [RTNA] were all smiles recently when they completed successfully shore-based flight trials of a technology demonstrator designed for the shipboard version of the Joint […]

Even though commercial satellite communications systems are projected to handle an increasing amount of the U.S. military bandwidth requirements in the coming decade, success for these systems will lie in […]

Industry leaders within the reusable launch vehicle (RLV) sector received a boost from the U.S. government Sept. 19 when the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released the final rules and regulations […]

Arianespace racked up another dual-satellite launch Sept. 14 by an Ariane 5 vehicle. The rocket lifted off at 6:49 p.m. EDT carrying the Astra 2B and GE 7 satellites and […]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) successfully launched its newest polar-orbiting weather satellite Sept. 21 from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Titan 2 rocket. NOAA L is the […]

Gilat-To-Home Inc. has a new name, StarBand Communications, but its plan to become America’s first consumer, two-way, high-speed satellite Internet service remains the same. The McLean, Va.-based company said the […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] has agreed to sell about one-third of its equity interest in Inmarsat Ventures Ltd. to Telenor, the largest Norwegian carrier, for more than $100 million. Lockheed […]

The Mobile Satellite Users Association is an industry organization representing the users of mobile satellite services. The group is hosting its first users conference in Crystal City, Va., just outside […]

In another shrewd financing move by Globalstar Telecommunications Ltd. [GSTRF], the company has secured an additional $105 million. The company earlier this week (Sept. 19) announced that it has entered […]

Lessons Learned from Iridium, ICO, and Globalstar – Part 3 The aerospace industry has been notorious for over-runs on government programs. However, the commercial space industry has been operated like […]

It seems like Wall Street was ready for Orbcomm’s filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection, at least in terms of how it affected one of its parent companies – Orbital […]

Orbcomm Files For Voluntary Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection In a move that should have come as no surprise to industry observers, Orbcomm Global L.P. [ORB] voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 […]

The calling capacity of the Asia Cellular Satellite’s Garuda 1 mobile services satellite “is likely to be limited by an antenna-related anomaly discovered…during testing by its manufacturer, Lockheed Martin Corp.” […]

Hughes Space and Communications Co. [GMH] will build at least three additional satellites for New ICO, the reorganized and refinanced company that has emerged from the bankrupt ICO Global Communications. […]

Meeting up with Sumner Redstone, chairman of Viacom is an experience. Viacom is a phenomenon. Redstone, at 78 years old, is equally phenomenal, and was on a quick tour of […]

Dubai is rapidly turning itself into the technology hub of the Gulf, but it has a larger vision. Already under construction is the $272 million (E318.64 million) Dubai Internet City, […]

Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 100.5 degreesE: Asiasat-2 D – AsiaSat has ordered AsiaSat-4 from Hughes Space and Communications International. The new craft, positioned at 122 degrees East, […]

Rupert Murdoch has, after several failed attempts, succeeded in getting a foothold in Germany’s radio market. The US-Australian media entrepreneur whose News Corp so far was only active in Germany’s […]

Netherlands-based New Skies Satellite (NSS) is understood to once again be preparing its Initial Public Offering, with a late September date being speculated. NSS scrubbed an IPO earlier this year […]

BBC Prime, the BBC’s international entertainment channel, has landed a deal with Orbit Communications for satellite distribution across the Middle East. BBC Prime reaches nearly 10 million subscribers in Europe, […]

Belgium telecom operator Belgacom and Eutelsat have launched a new service called Internet Over Satellite, which is aimed at ISPs and corporate users located in areas with poor terrestrial infrastructure. […]

Eutelsat’s W1 satellite was successfully launched by Ariane V132. The Ariane 44P rocket, delivered by Arianespace, took off from Kourou, French Guyana. Control of the satellite by CNES in Toulouse […]

Australia’s CSIRO has designed a new multibeam antenna which, it claims, unlike the existing antenna systems where one dish receives the signal from a single satellite, this antenna can receive […]

Telenor of Norway is set to buy around one third of Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications’ (LMGT) stake in Inmarsat Ventures Limited. Following the transaction, LMGT’s stake in Inmarsat will be […]