Author: Staff Writer

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...

NASA selected Science Systems and Applications, Inc. of Lanham, Md., to provide science, technology and research support services to the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. The cost plus...

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced Oct. 5 that the upper composite of Vega, its new small launch vehicle, passed vibration tests at ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre....

The Stennis Space Center marked the passing of an era, an end of one long story in the U.S. space program and anticipation of a new chapter. At the largest...

Current TV, headed by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, has signed with BSkyB to launch a version of its viewer-created TV channel in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The...

North Korea announced it detonated a nuclear weapon, drawing strong protest from the United States, with President Bush vowing “an immediate response by the United Nations Security Council.” But he...