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WorldSpace Satellite Radio lost nearly 7,500 subscribers in the 2007 first quarter, bringing its total subscriber base to 191,600, the company announced May 9. The decline reflected low net additions […]

[5/14/07] Hughes Network Systems LLC (HNS) reported a profit of $4 million on revenues of $222.7 million in the first three months of 2007, the company announced May 10. A […]

Zoombak is the new name for the former Connectid, a mobile location-based services company and subsidiary of Liberty Media Corp. The change is part a wider rebranding initiative by the […]

Yousuf Al Sayed, CEO of Thuraya, confirmed that his company will launch its Thuraya-3 satellite with Sea Launch despite delays stemming from a January failure. Thuraya-3 is intended to expand […]

The Galileo satellite navigation project, which is supposed to be built though a combination of public and private funding, is teetering on the abyss after industry players failed to satisfy […]

Assertions made last week by the director of the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) that some censorship of satellite imagery might be necessary for national or military defense stirred questions […]

SES Global excited analysts in early May when the company revealed that it expected to realize cost savings on future satellites by focusing on its procurement process. "It is obviously […]

Eutelsat Video applications drove a 10 percent increase in Eutelsat’s 2007 third quarter revenues, the company announced May 10. Eutelsat posted revenues of 205.7 million euros ($278.6 million) in the […]

The announcement that Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) will manufacture the NSS-12 spacecraft for SES New Skies came as small but further indication of the overall health of SS/L’s parent company just […]

ABL Passes Another Test; Further Funds Restoration Sought House lawmakers provided a reprieve that averted death for the Airborne Laser (ABL) ballistic missile defense (BMD) program, while also lifting the […]

Massive cuts to the Airborne Laser (ABL) ballistic missile defense (BMD) program would cripple or eliminate the ABL program, its three contractors said in a joint statement. The companies, along […]

The Airborne Laser (ABL) ballistic missile defense (BMD) system successfully found and tracked a target that resembled an enemy missile rising in a launch, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced. […]

NASA plans to build a new stand at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi to test the future Ares lifter rocket engines, propulsion units in the Constellation Program to take […]

DataPath, Inc. has joined the Satellite Industry Association (SIA) as an executive member. The company provides satellite and wireless communications networks around the world. SIA is a U.S.-based trade association […]

The Department of Defense asked the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington think tank, to study export controls on military items. CSIS will examine current U.S. export […]

A new report on how global warming may precipitate crises forcing military action is eliciting extensive reactions among members of Congress, and discussions later this week at think tanks. For […]

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is proceeding well, with some components ahead of schedule, and the next-generation eye in the sky is set for a 2013 launch on a […]

In the first weather forecasts for planets outside the solar system, NASA researchers have found a giant gas planet likely covered with high winds, while another orb has the highest […]

The item “European Satellite Navigation Competition Offers Prize” in the May 10 Satellite Today should have said that Application Center Ltd. Oberpfaffenhofen is launching the competition, with Bavarian Ministry for […]

German pay-TV operator Premiere reported nearly 3.5 million customers in Germany and Austria, the company announced May 10. Premiere added more than 50,000 subscribers in the period ending March 31 […]

Integral Systems Inc. cited decreased shipments in its space communications systems segment, along with increased bid and proposal costs and legal costs associated with a previously disclosed investigation by the […]

SkyNet-5A, the first of three military communications satellites for the U.K. Ministry of Defense, has entered service, Astrium announced May 10. Through subsidiary Paradigm Secure Communications, Astrium is the prime […]

Boeing Co. demonstrated a fully autonomous, free-flight rendezvous and capture operation, while Northrop Grumman Corp. conducted multiple fluid transfers between two space vehicles using the Orbital Express system, the companies […]

Yousuf Al Sayed, CEO of Thuraya, confirmed reports that his company will keep the launch of the Thuraya-3 satellite with Sea Launch despite delays stemming from a January failure. Thuraya-3 […]

EchoStar Communications Corp. reported total revenue of $2.6 billion in the 2007 first quarter, up 15 percent from the same period a year ago, the company announced May 10. Net […]

Video applications drove a 10 percent increase in Eutelsat’s 2007 third-quarter revenues, the company announced May 10. Eutelsat posted revenues of 205.7 million euros ($278.6 million) in the quarter, which […]

[5/11/07] Space Systems/Loral will manufacture the NSS-12 spacecraft for SES New Skies, SS/L’s first contract from the satellite operator, SS/L announced May 10. NSS-12 will carry C- and Ku-band transponders […]

Microwave Radio Communications (MRC) has named George Maier its director of product marketing for the broadcast sector, the company announced May 9. Maier will lead product development activities for MRC’s […]

SlingPath has launched a satellite newsgathering (SNG) online training program, the company announced. The course is intended to provide a basic level of competence in operating satellite uplinking equipment in […]