Author: Staff Writer

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.”...