Author: Staff Writer

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R series (GOES-R), which already has seen its price tag soar more than $5 billion, stands in danger of seeing further cost increases, missed schedules and...

NASA gave a joint venture of The Boeing Co. [BA] and Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] a $1.1 billion cost reimbursement pact to run space shuttle program operations. The letter contract...

Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) announced Oct. 5 that it will close its civil space operation in Goleta, Calif. — also known as Santa Barbara Remote Sensing (SBRS) –...

The Boeing Co. [BA] and Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] won unanimous 5-0 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) permission to form a joint space launch alliance, Boeing, Lockheed and the FTC announced....

Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Co. has enhanced its high-speed data product Thuraya DSL to increase the speed of the offering. The terminal’s preliminary design was approved in May, and Thuraya plans...

Some nations might be concerned that any conventional-warhead missile fired from a U.S. Navy submarine might actually be a nuclear device that could blind radars in those nations, analysts said....

The European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat) delayed the launch of its Metop satellite to Oct. 17. The announcement came three days after a mechanical incident at...

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) received a NASA contract worth up to $750 million, NASA announced. The five-year contract with APL, of Laurel, Md., with the possibility of...

Global Scan Technologies (GST), a company providing remote sensing and GIS technologies in the Middle East, signed an agreement with Antrix Corp. Ltd. to distribute imagery collected by India’s Cartosat-1...