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[Satellite Today 10-16-08] Orbital Sciences Corp. revenues remained relatively flat in the 2008 third quarter, as profits slipped from $15.7 million a year ago to $12.1 million in the most […]

With Space Program, China Sees Military, Economic, Political Gains; China Makes Careful But Large Moves China sees its space program as an investment, not as an unwelcome budgetary outlay, a […]

Neither of the major-party U.S. presidential candidates is expected to press for aggressive U.S. policies in space or the procurement of anti-satellite weapons, a new report suggests. Thus no major […]

The Department of Defense (DOD) is falling short in tracking the health of the defense supplier base, according to a new report from the nonpartisan watchdog agency, the Government Accountability […]

But Kennedy Loss Now Seen As Less Than Earlier Estimate Of 5,000 Or More Thousands Of Space Workers To Lose Paychecks As U.S. Economy Begins Slipping Into Downturn Thousands of […]

The Venus Express spacecraft that will search for life on other planets is kicking off its work by focusing on one planet that likely can support life: Earth. The European […]

A circular solar array for the next-generation Orion U.S. space capsule, and a flexible wing reflector array for the Inmarsat 4 F3 satellite, both deployed correctly, companies announced. In the […]

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome yesterday to take a new crew to the International Space Station for a half-year stay in orbit. That crew includes Expedition 18 […]

NASA still will try to launch the Mars Science Laboratory about a year from now, rather than waiting for another window two years later, even though provision of some hardware […]

Updated — October 9, 2008 – 12:50 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2008 Launches Date: Oct. 19 Mission: IBEX Launch […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] completed final testing on the SES New Skies NSS-9 commercial communications satellite, the company announced. The engineering team completed pre-shipment procedures for the satellite, which will […]

Space Systems/Loral Gains Contract To Provide Satellite For SES SES, the European satellite operator, will buy another Loral satellite. Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications [LORL] […]

Defense spending on weapons systems may not plummet in the next several years, despite some pundits asserting that huge federal budget deficits, an imploding economy and nosediving federal revenues mean […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] delivered the core structure including a propulsion subsystem for the first Navy Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite, the company announced today. It is the largest […]

Continual Speedup, Slowdown Could Provide An Artificial Gravity, Eliminating Harm Weightlessness Causes Astronauts HAMPTON, Va. — Engineers working on the next-generation Constellation Program spaceship system design are considering propulsion units […]

The Laser Guided Rocket (LGR) passed a wind tunnel test, Raytheon Co. [RTN] reported. That tunnel operation produced both high fidelity flight simulations and data for developing the aerodynamic model […]

In Space Shuttle Program, 14 Crew Members So Far Died Over 17 Years In Two Disasters; NASA, Lockheed, Learning From Tragedies Reightler Says New System Eliminates Threats From Ice And […]

A full-scale model of the James Webb Space telescope today goes on display at a museum in Germany, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. The full-scale model will remain on display […]

Report Urges Revamping Defense, Intelligence Space Acquisition, Assails Sole-Source Contracts Better Relations Needed Between Military-Intelligence Agencies And Commercial Satellite Data Firms "The United States is losing its preeminence in space," […]

NASA scientists have gone backwards to progress, finding an old Apollo spacecraft heat shield hidden away in Smithsonian Institution archives that can yield secrets for designing the next-generation Orion space […]

The number of subscribers to IPTV services is expected to rise by more than 64 percent in 2008, as revenue generated for telecoms soars by 93.5 percent, according to a […]

Inmarsat plans to support a new entry-level FleetBroadband terminal, the FB150, developed for the small fishing, leisure and business vessels market from mid-2009, the company announced.     The FB150 terminals […]

Streambox Inc. and Thrane & Thrane have forged a partnership to develop enhanced integration between the Streambox ACT-L3 portable video transport solutions and Thrane & Thrane’s Explorer 700 and Explorer […]

Scopus unveiled a new network monitoring system, Eldorado, which features a customizable architecture for management of resources across networks, the company announced.     Eldorado is equipped with several wizard-based redundancy […]

Vizada unveiled new additions to its Solutions portfolio, which aim to optimize the basic broadband and IP-based connectivity services of mobile satellite network operators, Vizada announced.     These additions, which […]

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd. (SingTel) formed a joint venture with Chunghwa Telecom to build the ST-2 satellite.      This satellite is targeted to be delivered in 2010 and will replace the […]

Future IPTV service subscribers may experience a sense of déjà vu when watching television commercials. Commercial advertisements will seem to speak directly to them and reflect the television habits of […]

SES Americom will provide Canby Telcom’s IPTV customers in Oregon access to 36 channels of high-definition (HD) programming, including more than two dozen channels delivered to Canby via IP-Prime, the […]

Newtec has selected Altera Corp.’s Cyclone 2 Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) to deliver broadband services to its Sat3Play broadband terminal, Newtec announced.     The Sat3Play broadband terminal is part of […]

Cybernet has implemented a satellite-based IP network built on iDirect’s Evolution DVB-S2 product line with adaptive coding and modulation, iDirect announced.     According to Cybernet, the new network allows it […]