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Math and science teachers, and college students studying to become teachers, who live near certain locations can apply to fly on zero-gravity aircraft flights, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. There...

The U.S. laboratory being added to the International Space Station (ISS) is to become a national laboratory, and a portion of it is to be opened to other agencies and...

The Space Radar completed an integrated baseline review with the Air Force, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. That review of the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance asset was completed on schedule,...

Atlantis Piggybacks Atop Boeing 747 Transport; Endeavour Moves To VAB Space Shuttle Atlantis, forced to land on the West Coast by foul weather at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), headed back...

Raytheon Gains $145.4 Million Rolling Airframe Missile Contract The Navy gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a $145.4 million contract for producing and improving its Rolling Airframe Missile program. Nearly $105.5 million...

  Apposite Technologies Announces Gigabit-Speed WAN Emulator Apposite Technologies Inc. unveiled its Linktropy 7500 and Linktropy 7500 Pro wide-area network emulation appliances, the company announced. The emulators simulate bandwidth, delay,...

C-Com Sets Up Service Center In China C-Com Satellite Systems Inc. opened a service and support center in Beijing, the company announced. The center will be operated by Hua Sheng...

Astrium-Thales Alenia Space Capture Satellite Contract Al Yah Satellite Communications Co. (YahSat) selected a consortium of EADS Astrium and Thales Alenia Space to build a communications satellite to serve the...

Access Intelligence Names Chase  To Chair SATELLITE 2008 Access Intelligence has named Scott Chase chairman for the SATELLITE 2008 Conference and Exhibition. Active in the satellite industry since 1981, for...

The Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) completed a series of production readiness reviews, prime contractor and systems engineering lead Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. MUOS, a narrowband tactical satellite communications...