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[Satellite Today 05-26-09] Blaze Streaming Media, a live video production service, has partnered with TodoCast, a portable live satellite Web-broadcasting service, to maximize revenues from original live productions, Blaze Streaming […]

[Satellite Today 05-26-09] Two California residents, Tina Walker and Christopher Bayless, have filed a class action lawsuit against HughesNet in Oakland, alleging that the company falsely advertised its connectivity speeds […]

[Satellite Today 05-26-09] The Canadian Radio and Television Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) has issued a mandate that Canadian TV networks will have to make larger investments in local programming and Canadian […]

[Satellite Today 05-26-09] The U.S. Air Force said that a report released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), which claimed that the U.S. military GPS system is experiencing serious […]

[Satellite Today 05-26-09] TerreStar Europe filed a lawsuit in a Luxembourg high court against the European Commission (EC) seeking the annulment of the EC’s decision to select Inmarsat and Solaris […]

[Satellite Today 05-25-09] Arianespace successfully launched a Soyuz rocket carrying a Russian governmental satellite, the company announced May 22.     Arianespace said that the satellite was accurately placed on the […]

[Satellite Today 05-25-09] Up to 12 percent of DSL broadband subscribers will transfer to fixed WiMAX connections within five years, according a report from analyst firm Juniper Research, released May […]

[Satellite Today 05-25-09] Avanti Communications won a $345,000 contribution from the European Space Agency (ESA) for work on a preliminary design review of the Hercules satellite system, the company announced […]

[Satellite Today 05-25-09] Integral Systems’ corporate headquarters was relocated from Lanham, Md., to Columbia, Md., the company announced May 22.     As a result of the move, Integral gained an […]

[Satellite Today 05-25-09] NASA plans on launching two satellites in June with a mission to assist the agency in returning to the Moon, NASA announced May 21.     The Lunar […]

[Satellite Today 05-25-09] Alliant Techsystems (ATK) successfully launched TacSat-3 at 11:55 p.m. UTC on May 19 after it was delayed in order to remove off shore boaters from the exclusion […]

[Satellite Today 05-22-09] Thomson, a supplier of set-top boxes to satellite pay-TV operators worldwide, hopes to reach an agreement in terms of debt restructuring by the middle of June, the […]

[Satellite Today 05-22-09] In preparation for hurricane season, Iridium Satellite has commenced its third annual "Test Your Satellite Phone" initiative, in partnership with The Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) […]

[Satellite Today 05-22-09] Comtech EF Data unveiled its new CDM-740 Satellite Modem – a high performance architecture featuring an integrated DVB-S/S2 receiver and a turbo product-coding Single Carrier Per Channel […]

[Satellite Today 05-22-09] Alliant Techsystems (ATK) in cooperation with NASA, the U.S. Army and the United Space Alliance (USA), completed a drop test of the three main parachutes that will […]

[Satellite Today 05-22-09] Orbit Technology Group won a contract with the French Navy worth over $4 million, to supply Ku-Band and C-Band marine satellite communication systems from OrSat, Orbit announced […]

Concern Voiced In Hearings An array of Department of Defense space procurement programs suffers multiple problems, including soaring costs, lengthy delays and increased risks, with some satellite systems now having […]

In Return, Kazakhstan Orders Two EADS Astrium Satellites Providing yet another example of the globalization and rising competition in the space industry, Astrium, a unit of the European Aeronautic and […]

Developing, Deploying Solid-State Laser Could Take About 10 Years: Estimate Technical Hurdles To Lasers Surmountable, But Non-Technical Barriers Must Be Bested The United States faces a grim threat of rogue […]

While President Obama is praiseworthy for adding funds to the NASA budget for the next fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2010, the space agency still is sorely underfunded, including the […]

Need For 44 Ground-based Midcourse Interceptors Was Not Based On Sound Analysis, O’Reilly Says European Missile Defense Fiscal 2010 Budget Weak Because Legal Curbs Won’t Permit Spending More Than $51 […]

This is a special issue of Space & Missile Defense Report, containing breaking news in a week filled with major events. As we do each year, we shall observe the […]

Iran showed continued advancement in its missile development program by launching a 1,200-mile-range solid-fueled rocket, the International Herald Tribune reported. That Sejil-2 missile has sufficient range to strike Israel, or […]

[Satellite Today 05-22-09] RRsat Global Communications has started operating a new Multi Channels Per Carrier (MCPC) platform on Telesat’s Telstar 11N satellite located at 37.5 degrees West, RRsat announced May […]

[Satellite Today 05-22-09] Swedish Space Corp. (SSC) completed the acquisition of U.S.-based Universal Space Network (USN), a U.S.-based telemetry, tracking and control services provider, after it receiving approval from the […]

Updated — May 21, 2009 – 2 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: June 13 + Mission: STS-127 […]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) gave Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] phase 1 of the $37-million Terahertz (THz) Electronics contract, the company announced. That will support military and space […]

International Space Station crew members on Expedition 19 drank recycled urine provided by a recycling and purifying machine, and lived to tell the tale. Recycling urine, sweat and other human […]

One of NASA’s two Mars rovers has recorded a compelling saga of environmental changes that occurred over billions of years at a Martian crater. The Mars rover, Opportunity, surveyed the […]

Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] submitted a bid for the Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS) competition, the company announced today. The firm leads one of two […]