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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 […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] is opening its Altair lunar lander program office in Houston. The company is vying for a NASA contract to design and build the human lander that […]

[Satellite Today 03-23-09] All 11 Thales Alenia Space industrial sites located in France, Italy, Belgium and Spain have been certified to Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 3, Thales Alenia […]

[Satellite Today 03-23-09] NDS has opened a research and development facility in China, the company said March 20.     NDS, a supplier of conditional access (CA) and middleware solutions to […]

[Satellite Today 03-23-09] Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has selected Integral Systems’ Epoch Integrated Product Suite) to support Mitsubishi’s DS2000 satellite platform, Integral announced March 19.     Under the terms of the […]

[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 […]

Welcome to the 28th SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition. This year’s theme “Solutions Start Here,” could not be more appropriate for today’s communications world, where customers do not want to create […]

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 […]

Whether This Means Brighter Outlook For Missile Defense Programs Isn’t Yet Clear The leading congressional critic of missile defense systems will leave the powerful post where she was able to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

[Satellite Today 03-20-09] GeoEye has started delivering high-resolution, color satellite imagery from its newest satellite to Google, GeoEye announced March. 19.     The images from GeoEye-1 include shots of the […]

[Satellite Today 03-20-09] XipLink has named Diem Technologies, based in Genova, Italy, a value-added reseller to provide delivery and logistics support for XipLink’s XA-Series of appliances and the XipStick portable […]

[Satellite Today 03-20-09] Stratos Global Corp. signed an agreement to become a global distributor of two new ViaSat ruggedized BGAN terminals, the companies announced March 19.     Stratos will distribute […]

[Satellite Today 03-20-09] IPStar Co., subsidiary of Thaicom, has received the necessary licenses from the Japanese government to bring satellite broadband services to Japan, the Thai satellite operator announced March. […]

[Satellite Today 03-20-09] Mobision has selected Newtec’s Horizon HZ420 equipment for use in what Newtec claims is the Middle East’s first ever paid mobile television service for mobile phones and […]

[Satellite Today 03-19-09] Faria’s WatchDog 750 long-range identification and tracking (LRIT) ship terminal has completed compliance and testing requirements for operation on the Iridium satellite network, Faria announced March 17. […]

[Satellite Today 03-19-09] Intelsat Ltd. reported 2008 fourth quarter revenues of $608.8 million and full-year revenues of $2.3 billion, the company announced March 18.     The operator also reported fourth […]

[Satellite Today 03-19-09] Türk Telekom has selected Envivio Inc.’s Convergence series video headend for its IPTV project in Turkey, Envivio announced March 17.     Türk Telekom will use Envivio 4Caster […]

[Satellite Today 03-19-09] EchoStar Europe is targeting the European cable market with a new range of advanced set-top boxes, the company announced March 18.     EchoStar Europe said it aims […]

[Satellite Today 03-19-09] GeoEye Inc. has signed agreements with several international resellers to provide high-resolution satellite imagery and value-added products from GeoEye-1 to Beijing Earth Observation (BEO), Space Imaging Middle […]

[Satellite Today 03-19-09] GlobeCast has launched its second MCPC platform on the AsiaSat 3S satellite, GlobeCast announced March 18.     The C-band platform is located at 105.5 degrees East with […]

[Satellite Today 03-19-09] There has been a revival in the satellite broadband market thanks to the falling price of terminals and the emergence of Ka-band satellites, according to the findings […]

[Satellite Today 03-18-09] Symmetricom has been awarded a contract from ITT Corp. to provide components for the GPS 3 system, Symmetricom announced March 16.     Under the terms of the […]

[Satellite Today 03-18-09] TerreStar completed final satellite and reflector post dynamics performance testing of the TerreStar-1 mobile services satellite and has entered into the final phase of integration and testing […]