Author: Staff Writer

NASA will name the next-generation American spaceship Orion, a cosmic traveler that will take astronauts to the moon, Mars and beyond, the space agency announced last week. The Crew Exploration...

Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. delivered the Nextsat Commodities Spacecraft for Boeing Co.’s Orbital Express, Ball announced. The satellite, being developed for the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),...

Iran launched what appeared to be a long-range missile from a submarine in the Persian Gulf, although the missile traveled but a short distance before successfully striking a target, according...

With the market for mobile TV "finally gaining momentum," IMS Research is predicting strong growth for the sector throughout the next several years. IMS forecasts that by the end of...

A Proton Breeze M launch vehicle blasted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to place the Hot Bird 8 satellite in orbit. It was the fourth launch of the year...

Home2US Communications, which launched a pay-TV platform via satellite in North America that caters to a variety of ethnic markets, hopes to eventually get somewhere between 1 and 2 million...

Koreasat 5, the hybrid military and civilian communications satellite for South Korea, was launched successfully a week ago, Alcatel Alenia Space announced. The Koreasat 5 satellite is owned jointly by...

Intelsat announced that Station 53, supplier of integrated communications services to luxury yachts, has signed a multi-year agreement to provide voice over Internet protocol (VoIP), data and Internet service through...

A test of the ground-based ballistic missile defense system is set for Thursday. The interceptor kill vehicle, which will launch from Vandenburg Air Force Base, Calif., won’t be expected to...

VSAT systems have established themselves as a technology ideally suited to corporate networking, enabling a new tier of users to take advantage of the enhanced flexibility the platforms offer. But...