Author: Staff Writer

[Satellite Today – 06-03-08]  Globecomm Systems Inc. received a blanket indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide fixed and transportable ground stations to an unnamed global multilateral organization, Globecomm announced June 3....

The Aegis ballistic missile defense system will be tested Thursday in the Pacific, with two interceptor missiles attempting to annihilate the short-range target missile in the terminal phase of its...

NASA will release details of a broad agency announcement seeking ideas for buildings to be constructed on the moon, with those details being provided in a meeting in Washington, D.C.,...

Iran is studying nuclear fusion, the technology of the hydrogen bomb (H-bomb), according to Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency. The Iranian program was revealed by Sadat Hosseini, an Iranian...

By Ann Roosevelt and Dave Ahearn The first Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) unit was activated, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced. That Army unit is Alpha Battery, 4th...

NASA should drop plans to visit and establish an outpost on the moon, and instead should focus on something more practical: saving mankind from extinction by a killer comet or...

The Phoenix Mars robotic spacecraft, having survived a hair-raising arrival on the red planet, immediately struck gold, or rather ice. (Please see Space & Missile Defense Report, Monday, May 26,...

The Airborne Laser (ABL) completed its first activation tests on the ground, The Boeing Co. [BA] announced. Those tests were conducted this month at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., home...

Ariane 5 Launch Postponed Again, After Glitch In Rocket A scheduled launch Friday of an Ariane 5 rocket carrying the Skynet 5C and the Turksat 3A satellites was canceled because...

[Satellite Today – 6-3-08] Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Ltd. (AsiaSat) signed a new capacity deal with Ayur Group‘s broadcast arm Vintage Studio Pvt. Ltd., the companies said June 2.    ...