Author: Staff Writer

Norsat International has had its third straight quarter of profit and also reached the milestone of being debt free for the first time in almost 25 years, after eliminating short-term...

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) has launched Custom Capacity Service, a service it claims allows the customer to have, in effect, its “own virtual satellite system” at a low cost. MSV...

Boeing has won a key contract extension, worth $30 million, to supply broadband services to the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command, the company announced August 14. The Boeing Service...

Space Shuttle Discovery Launch May Move From Oct. 20 To Oct. 23 Liftoff of Space Shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station (ISS) may slip from Oct. 20 to Oct....

NASA Issues Request-For-Proposals For Ares I Launcher Work NASA issued a request for proposals for construction of the mobile launcher for Ares I, the rocket that will lift to orbit...

A full-scale model of the Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) ballistic missile defense (BMD) system will be on display this week at the 2007 Space and Missile Defense Conference and Exhibition...

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin assessed the odds of space debris crippling spacecraft and killing astronauts, giving numerical substance to the fact that space travel is unsafe. “Our average chance of...

Starting with the landing of Space Shuttle Endeavour from its STS-118 mission, technicians will have a new scanner to check for damage — which, coincidentally, occurred on the Endeavour orbiter...

Intelsat Reports Quarterly Revenues of $543 Million In a second-quarter 2007 earnings report, fixed satellite services provider Intelsat Ltd. claimed revenue of $543.2 million and a net loss of $31.7...