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Norsat International Inc. has reached an agreement with Bill Coyne, the company’s former president and CEO, to settle all claims relating to a wrongful dismissal suit. Details of the settlement...

The People’s Republic of China will launch its second geostationary orbit meteorological satellite, Fengyun-2D, Dec. 8, according to Xinhua. Described in a report citing the China Meteorological Administration, the Fengyun-2D...

Concurrent to the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, XM Radio will offer Radio Hanukkah, a national broadcast channel devoted exclusively to Jewish culture, XM announced Dec. 4. From Dec. 15 through...

Lockheed Martin Corp. and Boeing Co. have completed the transaction to combine their respective government launch vehicle businesses under the United Launch Alliance LLC (ULA) joint venture, the companies announced...

NASA selected Swales Aerospace of Beltsville, Md., to provide research and technology services to the NASA Langley Research Center. The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract has a maximum value of...

Alcatel-Lucent, a global communications provider of Internet Protocol (IP) TV, broadband access, carrier IP, IMS and next-generation networks, launched operations Dec. 1 after completion of a merger between Alcatel and...

Goodrich [GR] was chosen by NASA to provide an additional highly accurate, sophisticated optical system — the fine guidance sensor — to the Hubble program. This comes after NASA Administrator...

Echostar Communications Corp. issued a Nov. 30 statement detailing its agreement with Pappas Telecasting Cos. to continue carrying 16 local TV stations owned or operated by Pappas.

Excalibur Scores In Test Launch, Raytheon Announces Raytheon Co. [RTN] Missile Systems and BAE Systems-Bofors successfully fired the first extended-range, GPS-guided Excalibur projectiles at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz. Excalibur is...

Datapath Inc. has completed its acquisition of ILC, a privately held provider of network management software for monitoring, controlling and automating hybrid communications networks, Datapath announced Dec. 1. The purchase...