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The Army recently conducted a successful intercept test flight of Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., according to the service. The Aug. […]

Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Alliant Techsystems [ATK] successfully test fired a second-stage booster motor last month under the Submarine Launched Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile (SLIRBM) Booster System Demonstration for the […]

ORLANDO, Fla.–Lockheed Martin [LMT] is designing a very long-range cruise missile that can reach deep into enemy territory with a large warhead to destroy hardened underground facilities and cave and […]

Colorado’s senators have asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate a dispute between DirecTV and Echostar over network channels. On Aug. 28, Echostar offered to pay $100 million to local […]

France’s two major satellite-television broadcasters have been given the green light from the French Finance Ministry to pair up. According to the French government on Sept. 6, a merger of […]

Wild whooper swans from Mongolia outfitted with solar-powered, global-position satellite (GPS) transmitters are helping a team of international scientists track the potential spread pattern of avian influenza. According to the […]

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced Sept. 7 that its Orlando, Fla.-based subsidiary, Comtech Systems Inc., has received a $5.5 million order from General Dynamics C4 Systems, a business unit of General […]

Rural New Zealand is poised to benefit from the launch of satellite broadband service from Orcon Internet. The company announced on Sept. 7 that its new satellite service will complement […]

Not even two months after its initial public offering, satellite service provider RAMTelecom Inc. announced Sept. 6 it has expanded operations with a new office in Calgary, Alberta, and new […]

Telenor Satellite Services, a subsidiary of Telenor of Norway, has chosen Fabio Alencar to lead Telenor Satellite Services’ Brazilian operations. Alencar now heads Telenor America Latina Comunicacoes Por Satelite LTDA […]

DigiTurk, a Turkish satellite pay-TV operator, is accelerating plans to offer high-definition television (HDTV) services in Turkey. DigiTurk will team with OpenTV, which will provide the HD platform. DigiTurk will […]

The U.S. Joint Forces Command has selected Northrop Grumman to continue providing technology support to the Joint Warfighting Center (JWFC) in Suffolk, Va. The initial two-year, $218 million contract awarded […]

Andrew Corp. has introduced a 2.4-meter, vehicle-mounted antenna to serve the requirements of military and large commercial customers. Andrew’s new MilSatCom 2.4 Meter Nomadic Antenna — featuring lightweight design, high […]

Qinetiq has signed a licensing deal to market its auto-aligning satellite antenna through Andrew Corp. The Qinetiq design fully automates the set-up and alignment of the dish at any location. […]

Spacecom, the AMOS satellites operator, announced Sept 7 that it has secured six Romanian customers in 2006, adding to its share in the market. AMOS satellites’ hot-spot, located at 4 […]

Boeing Co., General Dynamics and four small businesses won the U.S. Army’s five-year, $5 billion worldwide satellite systems contract. DataPath of Duluth, Ga.; D&SCI of Eatontown, N.J.; Globecomm Systems of […]

Inmarsat global mobile satellite services operator and ACeS International Limited, an Asian hand-held voice satellite services operator, today announced collaboration arrangements to offer low-cost, hand-held and fixed-voice services in the […]

Vistula Communications Services, a supplier of voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) services to telecommunications carriers and Internet service providers, today announced the selection of its V-Cube platform by DirecPath to run a […]

Alcatel Alenia Space earned a contract for the next step of the German Armed Forces’ satellite communications program Satcom BW Stufe 2 from EADS Astrium, the space segment prime contractor. […]

Satellite manufacturers and launch providers are optimistic about the next several years as demands for replacement satellites and new initiatives will boost a slight increase over earlier expectations for their […]

Advantech AMT, a Montreal-based manufacturer of satellite and terrestrial wireless communication equipment, has announced itself as a technology partner to Scopus Video Networks Ltd., a provider of digital video networking […]

Harmonic Inc. today announced that new AES scrambling and bulk descrambling capabilities have been added to the its IP-based ProStream 1000 stream-processing platform. ProStream 1000’s real-time, bulk descrambler is capable […]

China will launch a new satellite for TV broadcasting and mobile communications next month, the Chinese government announced. The satellite, known as Xinnuo 2, was given the green light to […]

Alcatel Alenia Space has been boosted by the news that Eutelsat will retain it for the design, manufacturing, assembling, tests and on-ground delivery of the W2A satellite. Scheduled for launch […]

NASA awarded a contract to Lockheed Martin Corp. to lead the design, development and construction of the agency’s next-generation crew vehicle, NASA announced Aug. 31. Lockheed Martin will be the […]

France’s Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry approved a deal that will consolidate the country’s two satellite-TV providers – Canalsat and TPS into a single unit. In December, Vivendi […]

Lockheed Martin announced today that Marshall Byrd has been appointed vice president and general manager of its Commercial Space Systems. He succeeds Ted Gavrilis, retired after 36 years at Lockheed […]

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) and European satellite manufacturer Astrium GmbH signed an Aug. 30 contract for building the TanDEM-X satellite. Due to launch in 2009 for a five-year operation, […]

European Satellite Link GmbH (ESL) acquired marine and land mobile satcoms specialist Hanika ESS GmbH in an Aug. 31 deal. ESL is a Nera Satcom products and service source in […]