Author: Staff Writer

The Boeing Co. [BA] missile shield effort, the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program, contributed more than $193 million to Arizona’s economy last year, the company reported. Boeing also supported more...

The Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) B10 satellite completed 15 years on orbit, 50 percent more than its 10-year design life, builder Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. The entire DSCS...

Space Industry Sales Seen Gaining 4.4 Percent This Year, Easing To 2.1 Percent Next Year Obama Urged To Refrain From Cutting Aerospace, Defense Program Funding The U.S. missile industry continued...

[Satellite Today 12-15-08] Kudelski Group, a supplier of conditional access and middleware solutions to satellite pay-TV operators, has made a pair of appointments to its executive board, the company announced...

Costs, Options For Reducing Gap Between Shuttles, Orion, Detailed In NASA Study The Constellation Program won’t cut the size of the Orion space capsule, or crew exploration vehicle, as a...

[Satellite Today 12-15-08] The Yaogan 5 satellite, a Chinese Earth observation satellite, was launched on board a Long March rocket from the Taiyuan launch base, state-owned Xinhua News Agency announced...

[Satellite Today 12-12-08] The Space Foundation has certified three GMV space products: insightArthroVR, Moviloc, and SAGRAN, as certified space technologies, GMV announced Dec. 10.     The Space Foundation’s space certification...

[Satellite Today 12-12-08] TC Communications, an Australian reseller, signed a three-year wholesale agreement with Optus to sell the Optus Thuraya satellite range of handsets through its Sydney and West Australian...

[Satellite Today 12-12-08] Measat Senior Vice President of Space Systems Development, Ali Ebadi has been elected to be the chairman of the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) Radio Regulations Board (RRB),...

[Satellite Today 12-12-08] My Broadband TV (MyBBTV), a U.S.-based provider of television and radio programming via the Internet, is offering a new mix of channels targeted to an Asian-American audience,...