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Tandberg Television, part of the Ericsson Group, appointed Al Nunez president of operations in the Americas, Tandberg announced June 25. Nunez previously served as Tandberg’s senior vice president of sales. […]

TeleCommunication Systems Inc. (TCS) named Barry Dowdy vice president of its SwiftLink Deployable Communications Systems division, TCS announced June 25. Dowdy will be responsible for TCS’ deployable communications business unit, […]

Microspace Communications Corp. will deliver the North American premiere of the DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures movie “Transformers” to the L.A. Film Festival on June 27, Microspace announced. The pre-release […]

Starsys Inc. received a subcontract from the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate to continue development of deployable boom structures for satellites, SpaceDev announced June 21. The $750,000, 24-month […]

ICO North America Inc. completed the thermal vacuum test milestone for its 2 gigahertz (GHz) mobile satellite service (MSS) communications satellite, ICO announced June 22. The test, which is designed […]

Arianespace has ordered 35 Ariane 5 launchers in a follow-on agreement with Astrium, Arianespace announced June 23. The production order extends beyond a 2004 purchase order for 30 Ariane 5 […]

Last week’s news of the plans of U.K.-based private equity firm BC Partners to purchase with other investors a majority stake in Intelsat Ltd. for $5.03 billion looks to prove […]

In a move designed to bolster its aeronautical broadband offerings and facilitate its entry to the land and maritime markets, EMS Technologies Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire Australia’s […]

Boeing Co. has appointed Jeff Trauberman as vice president of business development for its Network and Space Systems (N&SS). Trauberman will be responsible for customer engagement, campaigns, advocacy efforts and […]

ST Electronics has rolled out its Agilis 1.2m stabilized C-band VSAT (Very Small Aperture Terminal) antenna. The antenna is advertised as the smallest stabilized C-band antenna currently on the market, […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA signed an agreement on June 18 to cooperate on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Pathfinder […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) has moved closer to implementing the first satellite based on Alphabus, the new European telecommunications platform, ESA announced. Alphabus is designed by the ESA and […]

Last week’s news of the plans of U.K.-based private equity firm BC Partners to purchase with other investors a majority stake in Intelsat Ltd. for $5.03 billion looks to prove […]

Thuraya has recently embarked on an ambitious pricing strategy as it looks to make its mobile satellite services more popular. Earlier this month, the company announced it was relaunching its […]

A pioneering program by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is providing technical expertise to human rights groups and helping Amnesty International USA with a new online […]

One of the most ambitious satellite broadband programs taking place anywhere in the world is Shin Satellite’s IPStar initiative, which aims to deliver cutting-edge satellite broadband services to corporations and […]

The U.S. Air Force has issued a July 30 deadline for its final request for proposals for the Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) Military Operations System, a program that will […]

Orbiter Vehicle Appears Sound After Landing Space Shuttle Atlantis, blocked repeatedly by two days of bad Florida weather from landing at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), streaked through reentry and landed […]

The sea-based Aegis ballistic missile defense (BMD) system aced a test by obliterating a target missile in its midcourse flight over the Pacific Ocean, making a strong nine successes in […]

Funding At Risk; Lawmakers, Brass, Given Tour Of Airborne Laser Boeing 747 Many of the components required to make the Airborne Laser (ABL) a working ballistic missile defense system already […]

President Bush has stiff-armed Capitol Hill efforts to bolster funding for threadbare NASA space exploration, science and aeronautics, some members of Congress complained. In an administration letter, Bush refused to […]

While further jointness and less overlap may be well in some legacy or mature areas of defense capabilities, some redundancy in programs could be welcome and beneficial in new mission […]

China developed and successfully tested various anti-satellite capabilities as a means to countering overwhelming U.S. military superiority, so that China might be able to win a toe-to-toe war with American […]

Lockheed To Deliver BSAT-3A and JCSAT-11 Spacecraft In July-September Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] plans to deliver spacecraft during July-September for Broadcasting Satellite System Corp. (B-SAT) and JSAT Corp. (JSAT), both […]

The United States may have to accept that the atomic genie is out of the bottle, as steadily more nations will possess nuclear weapons, including some states hostile to the […]

The Orbital Express in-space service craft, ASTRO, captured a satellite in a fully autonomous operation, The Boeing Co. [BA] announced. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)-led program performed a […]

Raytheon Co. [RTN] bolstered SL-AMRAAM medium-range missile capabilities, the company announced. The International Surface Launched, Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile will be able to include capabilities of the AIM-9X and SL-AMRAAM-ER […]

The Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) completed a series of production readiness reviews, prime contractor and systems engineering lead Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. MUOS, a narrowband tactical satellite communications […]

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