Author: Staff Writer

Alcatel Space and Astrium have signed an agreement for the joint production and marketing of high-powered satellites that will use the European AlphaBus platform developed by the two companies with...

French launch service provider Arianespace has ordered 30 new Ariane 5 ECA heavy-lift rockets from prime contractor European Aeronautic, Defence and Space Co. (EADS). The two companies announced Friday at...

Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems, a unit of Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], has been awarded a contract to build two communications satellites for SES Astra, a unit of SES Global...

SES Astra has high hopes for its SATMODE initiative. The Luxembourg-based company is teaming up with players such as Thomson, STMicroelectronics, Newtec, Canal Satellite in France to develop a low...

The U.S. and European delegations are close to a compromise on lowering the minimum dish size for fixed satellite services (FSS) in the 13.75-14 GHz band in exchange for power...

Scopus Network Technologies, an Israeli supplier of digital broadcasting platforms to the cable and satellite markets, and Akelia Wireless, a UK-based developer of products for wireless communications applications in the...

Hughes Network Systems (HNS) has signed an agreement to supply TM SAT, a privately owned Russian satellite service provider, with a DirecWay broadband satellite network. That network would include a...

France’s Arianespace and Italy’s ELV have signed a collaboration agreement that would allow Vega launches and operations at Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. ELV, as industrial prime contractor, will...

A Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT]-led team has completed an accelerated on-orbit checkout of the last Milstar II secure communications satellite and transferred full operational control of the spacecraft to the...

Canada’s Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness (OCIPEP) has purchased 8,800 square kilometers of one-meter IKONOS satellite imagery to be used for disaster risk assessment and emergency preparedness...