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Soyuz Launches Satellite From Plesetsk Cosmodrome A Soyuz spacecraft launched a government satellite from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, Starsem reported. It was the 1,722nd flight of a Soyuz launch...

Japan may buy up to $475 million of Standard Missile-3 assets, a move coming as a belligerent North Korea increasingly demonstrates missile technology. The deal isn’t yet final. The Defense...

To better provide the timeliest news and industry analysis amid the changing demands of the digital workplace, this month marks the end of the blue sheet version of Satellite News...

Norsat Norsat International Inc. made a final payment on its $1 million short-term debt, the company announced May 31, marking the first time since 1983 that the company had been...

Showtime, the Middle East DTH operator, is unlikely to have an initial public offering (IPO) this year as CEO Marc-Antoine d’Halluin admitted that an IPO "is not part of our...

NASA astronomers using the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite and ground-based telescopes, have discovered the properties of a rare, extremely massive, and young binary star system at sizes dwarfing...

After a delay of approximately two years, a new Freesat service is likely to launch in the United Kingdom early next year. The BBC and ITV, two of the U.K.’s...

Is eight enough? That’s the question facing Globalstar Inc. even as the first four of the handheld satellite phone service provider’s eight planned 2007 satellites were placed into orbit on...

Launch Set For 7:38 ET Friday Evening NASA leaders expressed confidence that repairs to the storm-damaged Space Shuttle Atlantis external fuel tank are sound, and the spaceship likely will have...