Author: Staff Writer

[Satellite Today 06-22-09] BBC has enlisted the help of Eutelsat‘s W2M satellite to assist the broadcast company in covering the recent presidential election dispute in Iran, the BBC announced June...

Updated — June 19, 2009 – 3:55 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: June 26 Mission: GOES-O Launch...

[Satellite Today 06-22-09] United Launch Alliance (ULA) launched NASA‘s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) carrying the Lunar Crater Observing and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) aboard an Atlas 5 rocket at 5:32 p.m....

The Navy gave BAE Systems a $33.6 million low-rate initial production contract for the AN/ALE-55 anti-missile system. AN/ALE55 is part of the Navy Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures (IDECM) system that...

[Satellite Today 06-22-09] C-Com Satellite Systems has delivered iNetVu Mobile Flyaway systems to China Petroleum and  Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) through one of its resellers, China Blue Satellite Communications Technology Co.,...

NASA chose two science proposals — one by Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] and one by Goddard Space Flight Center, Md. — for spacecraft that will be launched by 2015, or...

[Satellite Today 06-22-09] Expand Networks, specializing in optimizing WANs for branch office consolidation and virtualization, has formed a partnership with Level 421, a satellite broadband communication teleport operator, in an...

The Boeing Co. [BA] finished on-orbit tests and handed over the IndoStar II-ProtoStar II satellite to ProtoStar Ltd., with the bird ready for service. That 601HP satellite will now begin...

First ASA Mission To Moon In A Decade NASA launched an Atlas V heavy lifter rocket carrying two lunar spacecraft, the first U.S. moon mission in a decade and a...

The Boeing Co. [BA] transferred control of the second Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite to the Air Force, which will monitor and control the new satellite from Schriever Air Force...