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[Satellite Today – 3-18-08] Sea Launch will launch the DirecTV-11 broadcast satellite March 19, the company announced.     The launch, originally scheduled for March 17, was put on hold in […]

[Satellite Today – 3-17-08] Maurici Lucena, director general of CDTI (the Spanish Innovation Agency,), will chair the European Space Agency (ESA) Council for the next two years, ESA announced March […]

[Satellite Today – 3-17-08] RRsat Global Communications Network Ltd. has initiated services with its new high-definition (HD) playout facility, the company announced March 13.     The facility will expand the […]

[Satellite Today – 3-17-08] The sixth GPS 2R satellite built by Lockheed Martin was launched March 15, the satellite manufacturer announced.     The satellite, placed in orbit by a United […]

[Satellite Today – 3-17-08] SES is weighing its options for the AMC-14 satellite, which was left short of its intended orbit by a March 15 Proton failure.     “Since the […]

Army Contract Seeks New Kinetic Missile Interceptor To Kill Rockets, Artillery The Army is awarding contracts for design and demonstration of a prototype kinetic-kill missile interceptor that would take down […]

A Global Positioning System Block IIR-M satellite was launched into orbit on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] […]

[Satellite News – 3-17-08] A Proton Breeze M rocket suffered its second failure in six months when a problem with the vehicle’s second stage left SES Americom‘s AMC-14 short of […]

Space Shuttle Endeavour Takes A Punch In The Nose; Spacewalks Go Well During Marathon 16-Day Mission Some debris hit the nose of Space Shuttle Endeavour as it launched for the […]

In Hard Budget Times, NASA Manages To Keep Many Programs Going, But Can’t Do It All Widespread Funds Shortages Come As Congress Prepares To Reauthorize NASA For Coming Years Key […]

Rice Sees Russian ‘Interest’ In Euro BMD System Multi-Day Meetings Begin In Moscow Today Two White House Cabinet members, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are […]

Mockup Orion Space Capsule Built, To Fly In Emergency Abort Test Later This Year Ares 1-X Rocket Simulation Built; First Ares Flight In April Next Year NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER, […]

[Satellite Today – 3-15-08] An SES Americom AMC-14 satellite failed to reach its planned orbit after a Proton rocket suffered a second stage failure, Khrunichev and International Launch Services (ILS) […]

[Satellite Today – 3-14-08] The world manufacturing market for Earth observation satellites will grow by 14 percent over the next nine years to $16.9 billion, according to a new report […]

[Satellite Today – 3-14-08] Space Micro Inc. has been awarded a contract to develop a miniaturized space weather instrument for the U.S. Air Force, Space Micro announced March 13.     […]

[Satellite Today – 3-14-08] Sea Launch‘s Odyssey launch platform has arrived at the launch site on the equator and will initiate a 72-hour countdown in preparation for the launch of […]

 [Satellite Today – 3-14-08] United Launch Alliance (ULA)’s Atlas 5 rocket has been launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base’s Space Launch Complex-3 East for the first time, ULA announced March […]

[Satellite Today – 3-14-08] German space technology company OHB Technology AG reported a 20 percent increase in revenues for 2007 but a 16 percent decrease in net income, the company […]

[Satellite Today – 3-14-08] Mitec Telecom reported increased sales and profit for the third quarter of fiscal year 2008, the company announced March 13.     Mitec had sales of 9.8 […]

[Satellite Today – 3-14-08] The Russian Satellite Communications Co. (RSCC) signed a contract with Khrunichev Center to build the Express-AM4 satellite, RSCC announced March 14.     The spacecraft will be […]

[Satellite Today – 3-13-08] Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) President Gregg Daffner is stepping down as president at the beginning of April, the company announced March 13.     Daffner, the co-founder […]

[Satellite Today – 3-13-08] Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) has chosen Highdeal Inc.’s Transactive billing solution for its hybrid communications network, MSV announced March 13.     Transactive will serve as the […]

[Satellite Today – 3-13-08] Inmarsat President and COO Michael Butler will leave the company at the end of April 2009, the company announced March 13.     He will remain as […]

[Satellite Today – 3-13-08] GeoEye Inc. increased revenues by nearly 7 percent for the fourth quarter of 2007 and by 22 percent for the year, the company announced March 12. […]

[Satellite Today – 3-13-08] Lockheed Martin has submitted a bid to NASA to manufacture the next generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R), the company announced March 13.     Data from […]

[Satellite Today – 3-13-08] AsiaSat posted a double-digit increase in profits for 2007, the company announced March 12.     Profits for the year were 503 million Hong Kong dollars ($64.6 […]

[Satellite Today – 3-13-08] Globalstar Inc. added more than 21,000 subscribers in 2007 but reported losses in service revenues, total revenues and operations for the year, the company announced March […]

[Satellite Today – 3-12-08] SpaceDev Inc. will provide the first commercial satellite for the U.S. Department of Defense‘s Operationally Responsive Space (ORS) Office Jumpstart Mission, SpaceDev announced March 10.     […]

[Satellite Today – 3-12-08] ViaSat Inc. has installed more than 1,000 satellite networking terminals throughout Russia, the company announced March 12.     Working through Russian service provider HeliosNet, ViaSat has […]

[Satellite Today – 3-12-08] Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. signed an agreement to resell Airspan Networks Inc.‘s WiMax products, Airspan announced March 11. The agreement will enable Gilat’s customers to address […]