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[09-26-07 – Satellite Today]  News channel France 24 has begun broadcasting throughout Africa via the NSS-7 satellite, SES New Skies announced Sept. 25. France 24, owned by TF1 and France […]

[09-26-07 – Satellite Today] Harris Corp. has been selected for a potential five-year, $10.7 million follow-on contract to provide technical engineering and support for the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), […]

[09-26-07 – Satellite Today] Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $178 million NASA contract to design and build an instrument for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)-R series, Lockheed Martin […]

[09-25-07 – Satellite Today]  Stratos Global Corp. introduced its maritime broadband satellite communications solution based on Inmarsat’s FleetBroadband, Stratos announced Sept. 19. The service is expected to be commercially available […]

[09-25-07 – Satellite Today]  Comtech EF Data Corp., a subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications Corp., received a contract to provide satellite communications equipment to support an unnamed U.S. government agency’s satellite-based […]

[09-25-07 – Satellite Today]  Inmarsat has approved EMS Technologies Inc.’s eNfusion HSD-400 High-speed data terminal for use with the Inmarsat SwiftBroadband network, EMS announced Sept. 24. The terminal is the […]

[09-25-07 – Satellite Today]  Universal Space Network Inc. will add two new antennas to ground stations in Hawaii and Australia, the company announced Sept. 19. The Hawaii ground station will […]

[09-25-07 – Satellite Today]  General Dynamics Satcom Technologies has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army to provide satellite communications terminals and support services for the Joint Network Node-Network […]

Space Shuttle Discovery has undergone tests to check whether repairs to its right landing gear are sound, and hopefully all that work won’t delay liftoff past an Oct. 23 target, […]

Three members of Congress urged more testing of the Ground-based Midcourse missile Defense (GMD) system before it is deployed in Europe, and also said NATO should not only advise the […]

Pentagon leaders are debating whether existing platforms such as the multi-layered ballistic missile defense (BMD) shield will suffice to counter emerging anti-satellite threats, or whether some new platform or systems […]

By Ann Roosevelt Emplacing European missile defense sites in Europe would add to global deterrence of ballistic missile proliferation, according to the director of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). "We […]

Arianespace Set To Launch Japanese JCSAT-12 Satellite In 2009 JSAT Corp. tapped Arianespace to launch its JCSAT-12 communications satellite. Jean-Yves Le Gall, chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Kiyoshi Isozaki, […]

Army $921 Million WIN-T Contract Change Goes To General Dynamics, Lockheed The Army gave a General Dynamics Corp. [GD]-Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] team a contract change worth up to $921 […]

[09-24-07 – Satellite News]  SkyPort Global Communications has named Michael Polmar vice president of sales and Peter Semenach director of product management, the company announced Polmar most recently served as […]

[09-24-07 – Satellite News]  GMV has launched SmartRings 2.0, the latest version of its telecommunications satellite payload reconfiguration tool, the company announced Sept. 21. Engineers can use SmartRings during the […]

[09-24-07 – Satellite News]  Lockheed Martin has delivered the payload shipment module for the Flight 3 Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) satellite to Northrop Grumman Space Technology, the U.S. Air […]

[09-24-07 – Satellite News]  STM Group’s research and development center is leading a consortium to evaluate, prototype and test advanced modem technologies for the European Space Agency (ESA), the company […]

[09-24-07 – Satellite News]  TeleCommunications Systems Inc. (TCS) has been awarded a $2.4 million contract by the U.S. Army to provide satellite communications terminals and maintenance for the U.S. 1st […]

[09-21-07 – Satellite Today] Christopher Richmond has been promoted to senior vice president as well as the head of      Orbital Sciences Corp.’s commercial geosynchronous (GEO) satellite business unit, the company […]

[09-21-07 – Satellite Today]  Mobile Satellite Ventures LP (MSV) has been awarded two Canadian patents and two Australian patents that enable user devices to switch from satellite to terrestrial component […]

[09-21-07 – Satellite Today]  Intelsat Ltd. promoted Edward Berger to lead its business development organization, the company announced Sept. 19. Berger has more than 15 years of experience in the […]

[09-21-07 – Satellite Today] The French Ministry of Defense has selected    Vizada to provide mobile satellite communications to enable military surgeons to transmit images to medical staff in a different […]

[09-21-07 – Satellite Today] The European Commission (EC) proposed funding the Galileo satellite navigation system completely through public funds, ending a plan that called for a contribution from private industry, […]

[09-21-07 – Satellite Today] The U.S. Department of Defense plans to stop procuring GPS satellites that provide the Pentagon the capability to intentionally degrade the accuracy of civil signals, the […]

[09-21-07 – Satellite Today] Industry Canada has approved Loral Space & Communications Inc.’s acquisition of Telesat Canada, Loral announced Sept. 19. Loral and its partner, Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment […]

[09-21-07 – Satellite Today]  TeleCommunications Systems Inc. has been awarded a $6.7 million contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to provide communications products and services, the company announced Sept. 20. […]

[09-21-07 – Satellite Today]  Boeing has been awarded a contract by Thales Alenia Space Italia to launch the third Cosmo-SkyMed satellite, Boeing announced Sept. 20. The satellite will be lofted […]

[09-20-07 – Satellite Today]  Tandberg Television has won a deal to supply advanced IP infrastructure equipment and encoders to a new direct-to-home provider in India, Tandberg announced Sept. 19. Bharti […]

[09-20-07 – Satellite Today] The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Development and Test Wing awarded      Lockheed Martin a $2.4 million task order to support missions of […]