Author: Staff Writer

Santa Claus is getting nervous: Judging from satellite images taken last month, the Arctic’s perennial sea ice pack has encountered gaping openings of territory reaching all the way to the...

After a few frustrating years of slow launch rates due to a depressed commercial launch market as well as satellite manufacturing delays, Sea Launch is on target to perform six...

DTV Lost amid widely published speculation last week that Rupert Murdoch might divest his interests in DirecTV were definitive answers about what such a move would mean to the satellite...

Matthew Desch has been named chairman and CEO of Bethesda, Md.-based Iridium Satellite LLC , the company announced Sept. 21. Desch will replace Dan Colussy as CEO of Iridium Satellite...

NASA has formed a partnership with San Mateo, Calif.-based Red Planet Capital Inc. to establish a strategic venture capital fund for NASA intended to help the agency gain access to...

Lockheed Martin’s second modernized GPS Block 2R satellite for the U.S. Air Force is set for a Sept. 25 launch aboard a Delta 2 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force...

Spacehab, Inc. announced Sept. 20 that its Astrotech Space Operations subsidiary won a payload-processing services contract from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for payload- processing support on several NASA spacecraft. Under...

Ondas Media, which plans to launch a satellite radio service in Europe by 2009, has named John Yates senior vice president of network engineering, Jason Jones vice president of broadcast...

Harris Corp. announced its first U.S. sale of Intraplex Netxpress, a managed platform for the transport of audio-over-Internet Protocol (IP), to Worldspace Inc., of Silver Spring, Md. In a Sept....

Payload integration has begun for Arianespace’s next Ariane 5 mission following the vehicle’s transfer to the Final Assembly Building at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, Arianespace announced Sept. 19. In...