Author: Staff Writer

India plans to develop its own satellite navigation system in order to ensure it has independent access to navigation signals that the country considers vital to future economic development, the...

There will be no Satellite Today on July 4 in observance of Independence Day in the United States.

Gencorp Inc.‘s aerospace and defense segment, Aerojet, posted revenues of $165.7 million in the second quarter of 2006, a 16 percent increase over revenues from the same period in 2005,...

The boards of Eltek ASA and Nera ASA announced they have agreed to merge to create a Norwegian telecom giant, which will improve the companies’ position in transmission, telecom power...

The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center contracted Rockwell Collins to develop next-generation GPS technology for the modernized user equipment receiver card development program. The program is intended...

ESA awarded a contract to Swedish Space Corp. to provide a site for the northern telemetry, tracking and command antenna for the Galileo satellite navigation system at Esrange Space Center...

Worldspace Satellite Radio signed with France’s Sodielec to develop terrestrial repeater prototypes for Worldspace’s expansion across Western Europe. The contract, worth 800,000 euros ($1 million), includes design and development of...

Hughes Network Systems LLC announced June 28 that subscribers to Hughesnet, the company’s two-way broadband satellite Internet service, reached 300,000 during the 2006 second quarter, an increase of 19 percent...

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) received a contract from Echostar Communications Corp. to build a satellite based on the 1300 series platform, SS/L announced June 30. Financial terms of the deal were...

Technology MSV Unveils New Satellite Communication Repeaters Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) announced the availability of a pair of new vehicle-mounted repeater products that operate with the MSAT-G2 Mobile Satellite Radio....