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Xtar LLC said May 11 that the U.S. Department of State‘s Diplomatic Telecommunications Service Program Office awarded the company a five-year contract to provide X-band communications services to U.S. embassies...

Loral Space and Communication Ltd. lost $26.2 million in its 2005 second quarter ended March 31, down from a loss of $79.6 million in the same period in 2004, Loral...

New Skies Satellites became the second private equity-owned satellite operator to launch an initial public offering (IPO) this year as the company, owned by The Blackstone Group, issued 11.9 million...

Intel, the Institute for Defense Analyses, and SRI International have joined the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC), an international collaborative forum comprised of 65 companies and organizations committed to...

Sanswire Networks LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GlobeTel Communications Corp., said its prototype stratellite, Sanswire One, recently completed an early round of testing. Sanswire One was filled with lifting gas...

Singer/songwriter/author Jimmy Buffett and Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI) announced an agreement to broadcast Radio Margaritaville via the Sirius Satellite Radio network. The new 24-hour channel, featuring a wide variety of...

Spacehab Inc. lost $500,000 in its 2005 third quarter as revenue dipped slightly due to delays in NASA‘s space shuttle program, the company reported May 10. Spacehab, which provides space-related...

Lockheed Martin submitted a proposal to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for the definition and risk reduction phase for the agency’s next generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite(GOES-R)...

In almost all global regions, high definition (HD) is expected to make a near term appearance and to have an impact on overall satellite capacity as a result, Northern Sky...

SkyStream Inc. signed a cross-licensing agreement with Helius Inc. under which each company will license patented technology from the other in designing Internet protocol-based satellite and terrestrial networks. Financial terms...