Author: Staff Writer

Globecomm Systems Inc. announced May 2 that the company received a one-year services contract valued at $1.5 million from an existing major U.S. enterprise customer. Globecomm’s wholly owned subsidiary, Globecomm...

Sea Launch signed a contract with Intelsat Ltd. to place the IA-9 spacecraft in orbit in the fourth quarter 2007, Sea Launch announced May 1. IA-9, being built by Space...

Lockheed Martin Corp announced April 28 that Joanne Maguire would succeed Thomas Marsh as executive vice president of Lockheed Martin Space Systems when Marsh retires July 1. Maguire will be...

Iridium Satellite unveiled May 1 a readily deployable emergency communications package for first responders gearing up for the start of hurricane season. The Iridium package provides a mobile, global, interoperable...

The Lockheed Martin Corp. team developing the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) delivered a payload subsystem and associated software integral for the program’s first geosynchronous orbit satellite SBIRS will provide advanced...

Spacedev Co. delivered a pair of subsystems to prime contractor Boeing Co. for the Orbital Express program, Spacedev announced May 1. The goal of the Orbital Express program, funded b...

L-3 Communications‘ Narda Satellite Networks division received a contract to provide 174 Ground Multiband Terminals to the U.S. military, L-3 announced May 1. The systems are designed to operate in...

BY RAY NELSON The first intercept of an air launch target missile from a military cargo plane, currently scheduled for 2008, could slip another year due to funding and mission...

BY RICHARD MULLEN A House subcommittee approved, without fanfare, a mark-up for a $51.1 billion fiscal 2007 authorization bill for defense programs pertaining to ballistic missile defense and several related...

Two National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) satellites were launched Friday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on missions to reveal the inner secrets of clouds and aerosols, tiny particles...