Author: Staff Writer

Missile Sales Decline In 2006, But Space Sector Up 3 Percent The annual NASA budget eventually will have to rise to roughly double the approximately $16 billion of outlays currently,...

But No U.S. Arms Race In Space Seen By U.S. Aide The United States faces a burgeoning threat to its space assets, both those in the cosmos and ground-based links...

Some Glitches Arise, Requiring Fourth Spacewalk, Longer Mission Crew members from Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-116) installed a large component on the International Space Station (ISS) and set about rewiring it...

Intelsat renewed and expanded its agreement with the National Basketball Association (NBA) for international distribution of league games, the company announced. The NBA distribution network will now include full-time and...

Candidate For Army Contract Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] unveiled a battle command system that features linking air and missile defense (AMD) systems into one seamless architecture, according to the company....

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld presented the Defense Distinguished Service Medal to Lt. Gen. Henry “Trey” Obering III, director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). Rumsfeld, who is stepping down...

TacSat-2 Satellite Launched From Wallops Island TacSat-2 was launched successfully at 7 a.m. ET Saturday from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at the NASA Wallops Island Flight Facility, according to NASA....

Hughes Network Systems announced the next phase of a contract with Enlaces Integra and Globalstar de M�xico to deliver an additional 10,860 broadband satellite terminals for the Mexican Ministry of...

Hughes Network Systems announced Dec. 13 that the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has approved the Internet Protocol over Satellite.v2 (IPoS.v2) air interface standard, which incorporates the DVB-S2 industry standard...