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To better provide the timeliest news and industry analysis amid the changing demands of the digital workplace, this month marks the end of the blue sheet version of Satellite News […]

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) notified TerreStar Networks Inc. that delivery of the TerreStar-1 satellite has been delayed by 10 months, with a new delivery date scheduled for August 2008, TerreStar announced. […]

Norsat Norsat International Inc. made a final payment on its $1 million short-term debt, the company announced May 31, marking the first time since 1983 that the company had been […]

Showtime, the Middle East DTH operator, is unlikely to have an initial public offering (IPO) this year as CEO Marc-Antoine d’Halluin admitted that an IPO "is not part of our […]

NASA astronomers using the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) satellite and ground-based telescopes, have discovered the properties of a rare, extremely massive, and young binary star system at sizes dwarfing […]

After a delay of approximately two years, a new Freesat service is likely to launch in the United Kingdom early next year. The BBC and ITV, two of the U.K.’s […]

Is eight enough? That’s the question facing Globalstar Inc. even as the first four of the handheld satellite phone service provider’s eight planned 2007 satellites were placed into orbit on […]

The BBC/ITV-backed Freesat direct-to-home platform, set to launch in 2008, will be critical in helping the United Kingdom become an all-digital nation, according to Emma Scott, project director for Freesat. […]

Launch Set For 7:38 ET Friday Evening NASA leaders expressed confidence that repairs to the storm-damaged Space Shuttle Atlantis external fuel tank are sound, and the spaceship likely will have […]

Russia claims it has a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that can penetrate any ballistic missile shield, after a test launch of the new weapon went zooming across the Eurasian […]

U.S. missile defense and space efforts, along with a vast array of defense programs, are being shortchanged unrelentingly by a government starved of the income it requires to meet critical […]

NASA and other space agencies released a plan for coordinated exploration of space. The American space agency was joined by those of 13 other nations as they continued space exploration […]

PAC-3 Missile Variant Unsuccessful In Recent Test By Ann Roosevelt A development test last month of a new Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] Patriot PAC-3 missile variant experienced an anomaly in […]

If it can work for missile defense interceptors, why not on manned spaceships? NASA gave Aerojet, a GenCorp Inc. company, a five year contract to develop technology for a rocket-powered […]

Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) took a spacewalk to install panels to help shield a service module from micro-meteoroids. ISS Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Oleg […]

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) notified TerreStar Networks Inc. that delivery of the TerreStar-1 satellite has been delayed by 10 months, with a new delivery date scheduled for August 2008, TerreStar announced. […]

Space agencies from around the globe have agreed on a shared long-term view of space exploration.   "The Global Exploration Strategy: The Framework for Coordination,” was released May 31 by […]

General Dynamics SatCom Technologies has been awarded a $30.5 million follow-on order for satellite communications terminals for the U.S. Marine Corps Support Wide Area Network program, the company announced May […]

Grass Valley will supply its Argos MPEG-4 AVC mobile TV encoders from Thomson for use in Sirius Satellite Radio’s TV offering, Thomson announced May 30. The encoder is designed to […]

RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd. has started operating a new MCPC platform on Intelsat’s Galaxy 23 satellite located at 121° West, RRSat announced May 31. The C-Band platform will serve […]

Globecomm Systems Inc. has introduced its next-generation satellite network management system, the company announced May 31. Dubbed AxxSys Orion, the system monitors and controls terrestrial elements of a satellite communications […]

Norsat International Inc. made a final payment on its $1 million short-term debt, the company announced May 31, marking the first time since 1983 that the company had been debt-free. […]

Problems with Globalstar’s constellation of satellites led the company to warn in February that customers could begin to suffer from service loss as early as 2008. Many of the company’s […]

High-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) is a 3G mobile broadband solution that absolutely thrills the growing ranks of users who find their download speeds improved by a factor of four […]

What is the likely role of satellite infrastructure for next-generation broadband deployment? Not much, if the answer is based on recent reports produced in the United Kingdom. Next-generation networks generally […]

The Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) sector, which has shown signs of settling into a period of operational growth after three years of financial engineering and consolidation, was thrown back into […]

Following several years of transition, Hughes Network Systems LLC established itself as an independent entity in January 2006. Since then, Chairman and CEO Pradman Kaul has found that life free […]

The ability to beam ads and promotional content to any number of sites simultaneously via satellite remains a remarkable concept, and network reliability and cost concerns that may have conspired […]

An increase in the number of navigation satellites orbiting the globe promises to usher in a new era of signal availability and accuracy. But it will take the creativity of […]