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[Satellite Today 03-26-09] Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN), a wholly owned subsidiary of SeaMobile Inc., has purchased Intelsat capacity to expand its range of satellite-based services to its maritime customers, MTN […]

[Satellite Today 03-26-09] Globalstar received $574 million in financing from Coface, France’s export credit agency, which it can use to acquire and launch satellites, Globalstar announced March 25.     The […]

[Satellite Today 03-26-09]  Satellite Today’s editorial staff will be on-site at the SATELLITE 2009 conference with live updates, daily e-newsletters, exclusive interviews and video coverage.     The SATELLITE 2009 conference […]

The CEOs of the world’s largest fixed satellite services companies remain upbeat about their prospects — and those of the satellite sector as a whole — in these difficult financial […]

The CEOs of the world’s largest fixed satellite services companies remain upbeat about their prospects — and those of the satellite sector as a whole — in these difficult financial […]

[Satellite Today 03-25-09] Wavestream Corp., a manufacturer of solid-state power amplifiers (SSPAs), has introduced a line of 160-Watt X-band SSPAs for commercial and military applications, the company announced March 23. […]

[Satellite Today 03-25-09] NASA’s NOAA-19 spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin and launched in February, completed a 45-day on-orbit verification period, the manufacturer announced March 23.     The satellite, formerly called […]

[Satellite Today 03-25-09] Hyundai Heavy Industries’ construction equipment division selected Orbcomm’s satellite network to provide global communications for Hi-Mate, a telematics application for heavy equipment, Orbcomm announced March 23.     […]

[Satellite Today 03-25-09] Harris Corp. signed an original equipment manufacturer agreement with Roundbox Inc., a provider of mobile broadcast software, to deliver a mobile broadcast solution for U.S. terrestrial DTV […]

[Satellite Today 03-25-09] Talia, a supplier of satellite Internet in Africa, the Middle East and Europe, expanded its African services and enhanced a free hardware program designed to support non-profit […]

[Satellite Today 03-25-09] Intelsat General Corp. has been awarded a multi-year contract from Artel Inc. to supply bandwidth to the U.S. military to support UAV surveillance operations, Intelsat announced March […]

[Satellite Today 03-25-09]  Satellite Today’s editorial staff will be on-site at the SATELLITE 2009 conference with live updates, daily e-newsletters, exclusive interviews and video coverage.     The SATELLITE 2009 conference […]

[Satellite Today 03-24-09] EchoStar Satellite Services has launched an IP-Prime conversion program designed to provide continued delivery of U.S. video transport services for telco IP headend facilities, EchoStar announced March […]

The CEOs of the four largest fixed satellite services companies will set the tone for SATELLITE 2009, as Romain Bausch, Giuliano Berretta, Dan Goldberg and David McGlade again get together […]

[Satellite Today 03-24-09] Alliant Techsystems (ATK) signed a $257 million contract with United Space Alliance to perform subcontractor support to ATK for the NASA‘s Ares 1 and Ares 1-X programs […]

[Satellite Today 03-24-09] SAT Corp., a subsidiary of Integral Systems, received a contract from Hispasat to upgrade the carrier monitoring system throughout Hispasat’s network, extending its MonicsNet network to support […]

[Satellite Today 03-24-09]  Satellite Today’s editorial staff will be on-site at the SATELLITE 2009 conference with live updates, daily e-newsletters, exclusive interviews and video coverage.     The SATELLITE 2009 conference […]

[Satellite Today 03-24-09] The Malaysian government has shipped RazakSat from the Royal Malaysian Air Force Subang airfield to Kwajalein Island, where the satellite will be launched April 21, Malaysian government […]

The Navy gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a $106 million contract to produce Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 missiles for the Navy and key allies. The new C-1 variant will be network-enabled, […]

The Air Force gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a $23 million undefinitized with firm fixed price contract for production of 70 Maverick Missiles and a guidance and control section. A unit […]

GMD System Operations And Sustainment At Stake; Missile Defense Agency Contract Sought Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] will take on The Boeing Co. [BA] in a fight for an operations and […]

A military laser set a record by reaching 105 kilowatts, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. The company used a scalable building block strategy in the test, which was the final […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] demonstrated its Re-Deployable High-Energy Laser System (RHELS) by quickly relocating the prototype weapon system from its Albuquerque development site to a test range, where it tracked […]

A Proton M rocket in early May will launch the IndoStar II/ ProtoStar II satellite built by The Boeing Co. [BA]. Krunichev built the Proton M in Moscow, and shipped […]

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) will add a government payload to Sirius 5, a satellite for SES (Euronext Paris:SESG) (Luxembourg Stock Exchange:SESG), currently under construction at the spacecraft manufacturing facility in California. […]

Charles Simonyi will launch Thursday on a Soyuz space vehicle, becoming the first space tourist to visit the International Space Station twice. He is the seventh tourist whose voyage was […]

Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D-Calif.), who chairs the House Armed Services Committee strategic forces subcommittee, whom President Obama has chosen for a nonproliferation post in the State Department, made comments […]

Military May Lose Laser Capability In Killing Enemy Missiles; Industrial Base Is Threatened By Budget Moves Legislators Write Letter To Gates A bipartisan group of legislators told Secretary of Defense […]

[Satellite Today 03-23-09] AsiaSat has seen an increase in revenues but a fall in profits in 2008, according to the company’s full-year financial results released March 19.     AsiaSat reported […]

The NOAA-N Prime spacecraft completed its 45-day on-orbit verification, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. NOAA-N is the final Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) that was launched Feb. 6. Lockheed built […]