Author: Staff Writer

Flawless Flight Follows Safety Warnings Top NASA leaders won their gamble that safety concerns about the Space Shuttle Discovery were wrong, but the picture-perfect Fourth of July launch to the...

By Geoff Fein The Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] last week conducted a high supersonic submunition dispense test of the Revolutionary Approach To Time critical...

By Dave Ahearn The failure of a long-range North Korean missile is no cause for relief, according to observers. While the long-range missile failed shortly into its first-stage burn, North...

Telefonica International Wholesale Services signed with Inmarsat to distribute the Broadband Global Area Network service to Telefonica Wholesaler’s own channels. The contract will allow Inmarsat access to the 19 countries...

Eumetsat, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, completed commissioning of the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG-2) satellite, Eumetsat announced. The spacecraft is being prepared for relocation to 0°...

Eutelsat‘s Hot Bird 8 satellite was delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan July 6, in advanced of a scheduled Aug. 5 launch aboard a Russian Proton rocket, International Launch...

MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) won a pair of contracts to provide components supporting regional satellite services in North America and Europe, the company announced July 6. The contracts...

Hughes Communications Inc. applied to list its common stock on the NASDAQ Global Market, the company announced July 5. Hughes began offering shares in February on the over-the-counter bulleting board...

Sirius Satellite Radio added 600,460 net subscribers during the second quarter of 2006 to bring its total subscriber base to 4.7 million, the company announced July 6. Rival XM Satellite...

Boeing received a study contract from the U.S. Air Force to define the next-generation communications payload for a polar-orbiting satellite, the company announced July 6. Under the six-month, $1.5 million...