Author: Staff Writer

Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has been selected for phase A of the Lightweight Electro-Optical Space Sensor (LEOSS) program by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base,...

NASA is poised to provide $14 million to research programs to study the risks of space radiation to crews such as those who will voyage to the moon, Mars and...

Orbimage Holdings Inc., which does business under the name Geoeye, announced Sept. 14 that Nasdaq approved its application to list its securities on the market. Geoeye has begun trading its...

The Army awarded The Boeing Co. [BA], General Dynamics Corp. [GD] and four smaller contractors roles in the $5 billion World Wide Satellite Systems program. This program calls for six...

Pioneer Electronics and XM Satellite Radio have unveiled a pink Pioneer Inno XM2go, a portable player that received XM signals and stores MP3 and WMA audio files, the companies announced....

The Soyuz Russian spacecraft launched successfully twice, first last week and then today. But the craft won’t be carrying Madonna into space, at least not any time soon. First, the...

The World Teleport Association announced Sept. 15 that Gerhard Bommas, chief technology officer of ND Satcom, and Malcolm Warren, director of Asia-Pacific for Viasat, have been elected to the WTA’s...

Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] and Raytheon Co. [RTN} test fired the stage 1 motor for the Kinetic Energy Interceptor, Northrop announced. This test marks the second in a series of...

British Telecom (BT) has announced plans to move its satellite communications business from Goonhilly, England, marking the end of operations for the world’s largest satellite Earth station. Despite its 61...

The Air Force gave Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] a $589.6 million contract to provide services for the Air and Space Operations Center. Lockheed Martin Mission Systems, of Colorado Springs, Colo.,...