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NASA, in moving to save money by retiring the space shuttle fleet, will encounter hidden costs and problems, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported to congressional committees. The U.S. space […]

Plans To Resolve Software Glitches Are Likely To Fall Short, Report States It likely will require more than an estimate $414 million in cost overruns and 15 months of delays […]

First ATV Successfully De-Orbited, Burns Up As Planned In Reentry Astrium has provided the European Space Agency (ESA) with an option to convert the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) robotic cargo […]

Vice Adm. Murrett: U.S. Systems Can Detect Enemy Tunnels, Spot Individuals As They Walk U.S. intelligence efforts are using huge amounts of civilian space imaging capabilities, and that will continue, […]

Congress enacted a research and development tax credit extension that the aerospace industry had sought, a measure that was included in a larger bill to bail out portions of the […]

The Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft will launch Oct. 19 from Kwajalein Atoll on a mission to study the heliopause boundary between the solar system and open galactic space, […]

Space Shuttle Discovery may take the place of Space Shuttle Endeavour in performing standby life-guard duty when Space Shuttle Atlantis blasts off to refurbish the Hubble Space Telescope. Atlantis was […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) and European companies have now set the launch of the GOCE satellite for Oct. 27, ESA announced. On Sept. 7, preparations for launch of GOCE […]

Updated — September 29 – 2:20 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2008 Launches Date: October + Mission: TacSat-3 Launch Vehicle: […]

NASA Gives Boeing $650 Million Contract Change For Space Station Support NASA awarded a two-year, $650 million contract extension to The Boeing Co. [BA] to continue engineering support of the […]

Russia is delivering 18 more Smerch multiple rocket launch systems to India, RIA Novosti reported. Rosoboronexport is working under a deal with India reached when the Russian defense minister visited […]

The Messenger spacecraft today will fly by Mercury on a photography mission, the second of three flybys of the planet closest to the sun, NASA announced. Messenger will photograph most […]

NASA awarded five-year grants, averaging $7 million each, to 10 research teams from across the country to study the origins, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. The […]

Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] broke ground on a new facility at Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, the first building in Wallops Research Park. The research Park is […]

[Satellite Today 10-06-08] Serbia Broadband, the largest pay-TV operator in Serbia, is hoping to launch DTH services in other Eastern European markets such as Bosnia and Croatia in the near […]

[Satellite Today 10-06-08] EMS Satcom unveiled a new high-gain antenna, the AMT-700, EMS announced Oct. 6.     The AMT-700 is designed to maximize data throughput and system capacity of its […]

[Satellite Today 10-06-08] Harris Corp. introduced what it claims to be the first tactical satellite terminals with the capability of transmission and reception of top-secret global wideband data communications, the […]

[Satellite Today 10-06-08] ViaSat Inc. and Lufthansa Technik (LHT) have teamed up to offer a broadband IP networking and entertainment system for business aircraft, ViaSat announced Oct 6.     The […]

[Satellite Today 10-06-08] Eutelsat is making progress with its consumer satellite broadband service in Spain.     The operator said Oct. 3. that Telecable is initiating deployment of the Tooway satellite […]

[Satellite Today 10-06-08] The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), which serves 356 public television stations in the United States, has transitioned its complete programming lineup to the AMC-21 satellite, SES Americom […]

[Satellite Today 10-06-08] Arianespace and Eutelsat Communications confirmed the upcoming launch of Eutelsat’s Hot Bird 9 and W2M Ku-band satellites will take place in the last week of November.     […]

[Satellite Today 10-06-08] The U.S. Supreme Court refused to overturn a $74 million judgment against Dish Network for violating a patent held by TiVo involving digital video recorders (DVR).     […]

[Satellite Today 10-03-08] The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) criticized the U.S. Department of Defense‘s handling of the Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) in a report released Sept. 30.     […]

[Satellite Today 10-03-08] GeoEye Inc. has appointed Jeanine Montgomery vice president of accounting and corporate controller, the company announced Oct. 3.     Montgomery will manage all accounting operations, regulatory reporting […]

[Satellite Today 10-03-08] Tracking Corp., an alarm notification systems provider, has released a new version of its firmware for the mobile resource management (MRM) that supports satellite communication to back-end […]

[Satellite Today 10-03-08] Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has standardized on NX and Teamcenter software from Siemens PLM for product design, simulation and product data management, a Siemens announcement stated Oct. […]

[Satellite Today 10-03-08] CVG Inc. has been awarded a contract to provide its CFK-100 compact flyaway kits to the U.S. Air Force‘s air combat command, CVG announced Oct. 3.     […]

[Satellite Today 10-03-08] The U.S. Coast Guard has selected Orbcomm‘s high-usage option for Automatic Identification System (AIS) data from the AIS concept demonstration satellite, Orbcomm announced Oct. 3.     Under […]

[Satellite News 10-02-08] ViaSat-1, scheduled to be launched in 2011, will increase satellite broadband capacity ten-fold in the United States, ViaSat Senior Vice President Tom Moore said.     “When you […]

[Satellite Today 10-01-08] Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) completed its network of nine regionally managed Satellite Mutual Aid Radio Talkgroups (SMART) enabling interoperable communications among public safety organizations across the country […]