Author: Staff Writer

The U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) granted full certification to the SC-9a X-band satellite communications thermal manufactured by Globecomm Systems Inc., the company announced May 5.

Lockheed Martin received one of four contracts from the U.S. Air Force to develop concepts for a hybrid launch vehicle with a reusable first-stage booster and an expendable upper state,...

Gilat Satellite Networks won a key remote education contract in Latin America, as the VSAT provider was selected by Integradores de Tecnologia to provide an 8,500-site Skyedge network that will...

SES Global reported revenues of 329 million euros ($418.8 million) in the first quarter of 2006, up 13 percent from revenues of 290 million euros ($369.2 million) in the first...

NASA‘s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (Stereo) spacecraft arrived May 4 at Astrotech, a payload processing facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, to begin preparations and final testing for launch....

Sea Launch signed a firm launch contract with Intelsat to loft a satellite into orbit next year. The company will loft the Intelsat Americas-9 (IA-9) spacecraft sometime between October-December 2007,...

England’s FA Premier League split the broadcasting rights for its game between BSkyB and Setanta Sports, the league and broadcasters announced May 5. BSkyB, which had its monopoly broadcast rights...

The space shuttle Discovery will be moved out of its hangar at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., Friday, NASA announced. This move comes as Discovery is poised to launch on...

SES Astra has signed a long-term satellite capacity agreement with Discovery Communications to broadcast XXP, a German-based mainstream entertainment channel. XXP has been using analogue capacity from Astra on the...

The Navy gave Raytheon Co. a $142 million contract to produce Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) assets. Raytheon will provide 75 Block IIIB missiles, 80 Block IIIB conversion kits, telemeters, spare parts,...