Author: Staff Writer

The Army gave Lockheed Martin Corp. a $379 million contract for 112 Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missiles, the company announced. The contract also includes launcher modification kits, program management and...

Intermap Technologies Corp. announced May 4 that it has been awarded a $1.6 million contract to provide elevation and geospatial data from the company’s NextmMap USA and Nextmap International data...

The board of Raytheon Co., one of the top missile makers on the planet and the fifth-largest defense contractor, criticized its chairman and CEO, William Swanson, over his role in...

Los Alamos National Laboratory has received funding for a new space payload to increase on-orbit computational capabilities. The project is jointly sponsored by the National Nuclear Security Administration‘s (NNSA) Office...

Sea Launch Co. has signed a firm contract to launch the the EchoStar XI Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) in 2007, The Boeing Co. announced. That contract, signed with EchoStar Communications...

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...