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[Satellite Today 05-06-09] The Swedish Space Corp. (SSC) will run a U.S. corporation, Universal Space Network (USN), as a subsidiary after the U.S. government approved SSC’s acquisition of USN with […]

[Satellite Today 05-06-09] End-to-end broadcasting solutions provider, Harmonic, said it suffered heavy losses in its 2009 first quarter financial report released May 5.     The company’s CFO, Robin Dickson attributed […]

[Satellite Today 05-06-09] SatMax Corp., a wireless satellite coverage provider, has completed its name change from Echo Satellite Communications, the company announced May 5.     The name change came at […]

[Satellite Today 05-06-09] The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT) and MediaQuest are developing a high-definition (HD) direct-to-home (DTH) offering for commercial release in 2009, PLDT announced in its first […]

[Satellite Today 05-05-09] SpaceConnection President and CEO Michael Antonovich resigned, effective May 15, according to a statement released May 4.     Antonovich said he was leaving the company to join […]

[Satellite Today 05-05-09] DirecTV will merge with its majority shareholder, Liberty Entertainment, in an effort to consolidate Liberty’s broadcasting and programming units, the companies announced May 4.     The new […]

[Satellite Today 05-05-09] Comtech Telecommunications Corp. hopes to raise $200 million through a private sale, the company announced May 4.     Comtech intends to grant the initial purchasers of the […]

[Satellite Today 05-05-09] Bezeq Israel Telecom will merge with Israeli satellite TV provider Yes, the companies announced May 4.     The conditions of agreement require Bezeq to raise its investment […]

[Satellite Today 05-05-09] SeaMobile, a provider of satellite communications services to the maritime industry, named Jonathan Weintraub CEO, the company announced May 4.     Weintraub previously served as the company’s […]

[Satellite Today 05-05-09] AT&T CruiseCast soft-launched its $1,299 mobile satellite entertainment device for automotive vehicles at about 373 retail outlets, the company announced May 4.     AT&T CruiseCast, a joint […]

[Satellite Today 05-05-09] Artel, a developer of information technology and managed network services, hired Rosalind Kadasi as its CFO, the company announced May 4. In addition to CFO responsibilities, Kadasi […]

Alcatel-Lucent [ALU] signed two framework agreements worth $1.7 billion with China Mobile and China Telecom, Alcatel-Lucent announced. The deal will provide network upgrades, integration and maintenance services this year. As […]

The Navy gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] an $83.6 million firm fixed-price contract for radars needed by the Navy and by allied military forces on their F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighter […]

The Constellation Program goal of returning Americans to a moon base has been thrown in doubt, a House hearing revealed. Rep. Alan B. Mollohan (D-W.Va.), chairman of the House Appropriations […]

[Satellite Today 05-04-09] The May 1 item, “Boeing Completes TDRS Design Review for NASA,” should have said that the critical design review is scheduled to be completed in 2010 and […]

[Satellite News 05-04-09] The health of the U.S. national security space industrial base is being threatened by a shrinking aerospace workforce, according to an April 30 statement by Aerospace Industries […]

[Satellite Today 05-04-09] Giga-Com, a supplier of satellite and terrestrial microwave systems to the media and broadcast industries, has fulfilled a contract for the manufacture, integration and supply of 20 […]

[Satellite Today 05-04-09] Air Austral, a commercial airline based in France, has installed Panasonic’s satellite-provided eX2 in-flight entertainment system on two Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, Panasonic announced May 1.    The […]

Needed: a huge vacuum cleaner that can roam around in low Earth orbit. While the danger of catastrophic collisions in space is rising steadily, cost and feasibility issues mean development […]

Some 300,000 Pieces Of Space Junk Imperil Billions Of Dollars Worth Of Spacecraft; Exponential Risk Rise Seen Spacecraft operators later this year may gain access to better warnings of space […]

For Fiscal 2008-2013, Cost Overruns Total Some $10.9 Billion For Satellites The Department of Defense (DOD) has a poor track record in its military satellites development efforts, the Government Accountability […]

$2.5 Billion For 2011 Space Shuttle Trips In Budget Bill Won’t Fund Extra Flights; Also, Appropriations, Authorization Needed NASA gave Space Shuttle Atlantis a clean bill of health, saying it […]

The Zefiro 9A third stage rocket motor fired successfully, providing a new small launch vehicle for Europe. That final qualification test firing of the third stage took place at the […]

Updated — May 1, 2009 – 12:50 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: May 5 Mission: STSS ATRR […]

International Launch Services (ILS) will launch a satellite payload IndoStar II/ProtoStar II on May 14 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, ILS reported. The launch at 6:58 a.m. Baikonur time translates […]

Contractor Employees At Risk; Some Will Shift To Other Jobs In Their Companies The beginning of the end has arrived for workers in the space shuttle program, with 160 workers […]

[Satellite Today 05-04-09] Australian satellite company Codan has acquired Locus Microwave, a U.S.-based satellite microwave technology company, Codan announced May 1.     The deal, valued at more than $3 million, […]

[Satellite Today 05-04-09] EMS Technologies reported a net loss of $3 million in the 2009 first quarter, compared with net income of $4.2 million in the first quarter of 2008, […]

[Satellite Today 05-04-09] Bell Canada is proposing a Freesat digital TV service to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the company announced April 29.    Bell said believes the […]

The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite system (TDRS) K-L program completed its system-level preliminary design review, The Boeing Co. [BA] announced. Boeing is moving toward integrations of the TDRS K […]