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The European Space Agency (ESA) and Avanti Screenmedia Group PLC signed a contract to begin work on the Highly Flexible Satellite (Hylas) program, a Ka-/Ku-band satellite that will provide broadband...

A Northrop Grumman Corp. team completed a series of tests that proved a key element of NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can function in space, the company announced May...

Telenor Satellite Services will offer customers who activate Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service in May and June $1,000 of free airtime, the company announced May 15. This Free Airtime...

Spacenet Inc. has unveiled its Connexstar SE On-Demand, a new service designed to provide satellite-based mission critical backup and business continuity solutions. The service, based on the Gilat Skyedge VSAT...

By Ann Roosevelt The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said the integrated flight test of Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) element met...

By Dave Ahearn Members of a House committee lambasted the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program, citing soaring costs, schedules missed and performance fees paid to the contractor...

Substantial cuts that congressional authorization panels are making in authorizations for the Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) will delay the anti-ballistic-missile program and limit U.S. choices for defensive systems, Lt. Gen....

The final report of the NATO Missile Defense Feasibility Study was delivered yesterday to the North Atlantic Council, the alliance’s senior political governing body. Marshall Billingslea, NATO’s assistant secretary general...

Boeing [BA] tested modified underground silo and launch system components for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) interceptor, the company announced.This opens the way for the silo system to engage in...

Alcatel and Lucent Technologies filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on their planned trans-Atlantic merger. The statement includes the Alcatel preliminary prospectus outlining the deal,...