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Bush Says North Korea Won’t Come Off State Sponsor Of Terrorism List Or Axis Of Evil List Until It Takes Further Action But Bush Praises Destruction Of Reactor President Bush […]

[Satellite News [08-07-08] TrueVisions UBC, the main direct-to-home (DTH) platform in Thailand, plans to launch high-definition (HD) services in 2009, Ongard Prapakamol, the company’s chief commercial officer, told Satellite News. […]

[Satellite News [08-07-08] TrueVisions UBC, the main direct-to-home (DTH) platform in Thailand, plans to launch high-definition (HD) services in 2009, Ongard Prapakamol, the company’s chief commercial officer, told Satellite News. […]

[Satellite News 08-06-08] Conditional access and middleware vendor NDS is set to go private, the company confirmed Aug. 5.     An independent committee of NDS’ board has reached an agreement […]

[Satellite Today 08-05-08] Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) received distribution deal for the Olympic Games, , the company said August 5.     Eurovision, a distributor of sports and news content for […]

Another Major Loss For SpaceX As Falcon 1 Suffers Separation Failure During Ascent Space X Still Has More Missions Planned, And It Remains Set To Provide Commercial Transport Services To […]

NASA Contracts Aim For Lunar Surface Systems Concepts The Constellation Program developing the next-generation U.S. spacecraft system Orion-Ares selected 11 companies and a university to each develop concepts that contribute […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] will develop a new type of system providing power to spacecraft for maneuvering propulsion, communications, radar and more, under the first phase of a contract from […]

An early-warning missile detection satellite that was launched into the wrong orbit nine years ago was decommissioned, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. The Air Force Flight 19 satellite was launched […]

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, also known as LRO, completed the first round of environmental testing at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., NASA announced. Those tests ensure the spacecraft […]

[Satellite News 08-04-08] Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) has signed a long-term capacity agreement with the World Fashion Channel (WFC), the company said August 1. WFC has entered into a long-term […]

NASA, after celebrating its 50th anniversary last week, opened a Website interactive tour highlighting its first half century of exploration. Combining current and historic video with state-of-the-art computer animation, the […]

[Satellite News 08-04-08] Marco Caceres, Senior Analyst and Director of Space Studies for The Teal Group, said that the August 2 failure of SpaceX’s third Falcon mission may throw their […]

A Multi-Tasking Wonder Worker, Crane Helps To Erect Buildings, Create Roads HAMPTON, Va. — A new type of crane can assemble itself, lift loads, hop onto a mobile platform to […]

NASA 50th Anniversary Celebration Not So Golden In Budget Terms; Glenn Urges Increasing NASA Budget At Least $3 Billion Annually The budget for NASA, as it moves into a new […]

Stephen Hawking: The Costs Of Space Exploration Are Steep, But They Are Well Worth It John Glenn, the first U.S. astronaut, questioned a major portion of President Bush’s vision for […]

Iran refused to abandon its illicit nuclear materials production program, with an obstinate statement issued by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to the International Herald Tribune. Fears that Iran might […]

The United States hasn’t frozen sales of arms to Taiwan, but rather American officials are taking time to review the planned sale, according to a senior Taiwanese official. There is […]

Thousands of job losses stemming from the space shuttle fleet retirement, long feared, are about to begin. Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced that this fall it will begin workforce reductions […]

The current Navy program to convert 18 cruisers and destroyers to the Aegis ballistic missile defense (BMD) capability, which will be completed by the end of this year, will have […]

NASA policymakers met with leaders of foreign space agencies to mull the shape of a network of science stations that might be placed on the moon. Leaders of nine space […]

Around mid-summer we begin the process of putting together the Satellite Group editorial calendar for the following year. It takes just a few conversations with people throughout the satellite field […]

[Satellite Today 08-01-08] NDS has won a new middleware contract with one of the emerging satellite pay-TV operators in Africa, the company announced July 31. Gateway Broadcast Services (GBS), already […]

With the Chinasat-9 satellite in orbit, officially sanctioned satellite-TV services are set to become a reality in the world’s biggest market. With a population of more than 1.3 billion people, […]

  TECHNOLGY EMS Satcom INTRODUCES PACKET DATA TERMINAL FOR FORCE TRACKING APPLICATIONS EMS Satcom introduced an Iridium-based packet data terminal for use in force tracking systems. The eNcompass PDT-300i terminal […]

The saga of the proposed merger of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio entered a new chapter in June when Kevin Martin, chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission […]

[Satellite News 07-29-08] The ownership saga of Inmarsat took another as Harbinger Capital Partners Funds intends to bid for the mobile satellite services (MSS) company and then combine it with […]

[Satellite Today 07-29-08] Com Dev International Ltd. has been awarded a contract by MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates, Ltd. to deliver a payload for Project Sapphire, the first dedicated space mission […]

[Satellite Today 07-29-08] Telesat has been awarded six satellite approvals-in-principle and is seeking interest from potential customers interested in developing services from the new satellite slots, Telesat announced July 28. […]

[Satellite News 07-28-08] Systems engineer and spacecraft bus architecture expert Keith Volkert brings a unique approach to his independent consulting firm, Satellite Consulting Inc. (SCI). He augments his group of […]