Author: Staff Writer

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., San Diego, Calif., is being awarded an $89.3 million cost plus award fee contract modification for the Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program includes the design build...

Hughes Communications Inc. raised $450 million through an offering of notes by its wholly owned subsidiaries, Hughes Network Systems LLC (HNS) and HNS Finance Corp., Hughes announced April 13. The...

Lockheed Martin Corp., Maritime Systems and Sensors, Manassas, Va., is being awarded a $21 million cost-plus-incentive-fee/award-fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-04-C-6207) for additional engineering services under acoustic rapid commercial...

Awareness of XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio among people 12 and older has reached 61 percent, according to a study by Arbitron Inc. and Edison Media Research. Nearly...

Raytheon Systems, Network Centric Systems, North, St. Petersburg, Fla., is being awarded a $19 million cost-plus-fixed-fee modification under contract (N00024-06-C-5101) to exercise an option for cooperative engagement capability (CEC) design...

Sometimes, the gamble pays off. That’s what Xtar’s investors must be thinking now that this commercial X-band operator has signed another distribution deal with a government satellite services provider. To...

Polar stratospheric clouds often are referred to as mother-of-pearl clouds because of their iridescent appearance. But in recent years, the clouds have become the focus of many research projects years...

XMSR XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. and XM Satellite Radio Inc. completed a refinancing transaction intended to replace higher interest rate debt with new lower interest rate debt, XM announced...

High-definition (HD) TV has more than proven itself technologically, and according to industry analyst reports, HDTV will be in 52 million households by 2009, up from the current 4 million...

BY KEITH STEIN Proposed cuts to the U.S. space budget may cause excess collateral damage between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and foreign partners interested in supporting the...