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SIRI, XM Sirius Satellite Radio added 600,460 net subscribers during the second quarter of 2006 to bring its total subscriber base to 4.7 million, the company announced July 6. Rival […]

Roughly a year after launching its satellite broadband service in Southeast Asia, Shin Satellite plc expects its new Thaicom 5 satellite to be 60 percent used as it begins commercial […]

Flawless Flight Follows Safety Warnings Top NASA leaders won their gamble that safety concerns about the Space Shuttle Discovery were wrong, but the picture-perfect Fourth of July launch to the […]

By Geoff Fein The Office of Naval Research (ONR) and Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] last week conducted a high supersonic submunition dispense test of the Revolutionary Approach To Time critical […]

By Dave Ahearn The failure of a long-range North Korean missile is no cause for relief, according to observers. While the long-range missile failed shortly into its first-stage burn, North […]

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, has a 10th launch on its manifest, the company announced. Late this year, SpaceX will use the Falcon 1 rocket in a launch for […]

By Michael Sirak KEYSTONE, Colo.–The Air Force is drafting the design of a long- range strike missile that eventually would succeed the conventionally armed Trident D-5 submarine-launched missiles that the […]

KEYSTONE, Colo.–Having determined that it intends to operate the nation’s Minuteman III nuclear-tipped ICBM fleet beyond 2020, the Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) has laid out the modernization priorities needed […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] may win Canadian military contracts for more than US$7 billion of helicopters and transport aircraft because competing firms may not qualify for the work. As well, […]

Myriad launches are keeping launch pads busy, according to announcements: In mid-July, there will be a missile defense test involving the Theater High-Altitude Area Defense system. On July 22, NASA […]

Telefonica International Wholesale Services signed with Inmarsat to distribute the Broadband Global Area Network service to Telefonica Wholesaler’s own channels. The contract will allow Inmarsat access to the 19 countries […]

Eumetsat, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, completed commissioning of the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG-2) satellite, Eumetsat announced. The spacecraft is being prepared for relocation to 0° […]

Eutelsat‘s Hot Bird 8 satellite was delivered to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan July 6, in advanced of a scheduled Aug. 5 launch aboard a Russian Proton rocket, International Launch […]

MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) won a pair of contracts to provide components supporting regional satellite services in North America and Europe, the company announced July 6. The contracts […]

Hughes Communications Inc. applied to list its common stock on the NASDAQ Global Market, the company announced July 5. Hughes began offering shares in February on the over-the-counter bulleting board […]

Sirius Satellite Radio added 600,460 net subscribers during the second quarter of 2006 to bring its total subscriber base to 4.7 million, the company announced July 6. Rival XM Satellite […]

Boeing received a study contract from the U.S. Air Force to define the next-generation communications payload for a polar-orbiting satellite, the company announced July 6. Under the six-month, $1.5 million […]

Boeing awarded Saft a contract to provide lithium-ion batteries for a pair of spacecraft being built for Mobile Satellite Ventures. The rechargeable batteries will provide up to 18 years of […]

Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. delivered the Beijing-1 satellite to the Beijing Landview Mapping Information Technology Co. Ltd., the British satellite manufacturer announced June 30. The Earth observation microsatellite can collect […]

The Atlantic Bird 4 satellite entered full commercial service providing direct-to-home services in the Middle East and Africa from its new location at 7 degrees West, Eutelsat Communications announced July […]

Milsat Services GmbH, a company set up by ND Satcom and EADS Space Services, will supply a pair of secure military communication satellites, a ground network and communications services for […]

The U.S. Air Force awarded Boeing a $138 million option to build three additional GPS satellites under the company’s existing Block 2F contract, Boeing announced July 5. The company will […]

Arianespace will sign a deal with Arabsat to launch the BADR-6 satellite for Arab Satellite Communications Organization (Arabsat) in mid 2008, according to industry sources. In June, Arabsat announced EADS […]

ABS-CBN International launched triple-play services following a technology upgrade at its San Francisco International Gateway satellite uplink center in Richmond, Calif., the company announced. ABS-CBN, the U.S. subsidiary of ABS-CBN […]

Globalsat Technology Corp. will use Sarantel‘s Goehelix GPS antenna in Globalsat’s TR-102 personal tracker phone, the company announced. The omnidirectional reception antenna will allow the tracker system to function even […]

The German Federal Cartel Office approved SES Astra‘s acquisition of satellite communications supplier ND Satcom, SES Astra announced June 30. In May, SES Astra announced that it would become the […]

Qinetiq signed an agreement with C&N Inc. of Tokyo to supply GPS chips that will be installed in consumer electronics, Qinetiq announced July 3. Qinetiq will provide its Q20 high-sensitivity […]

India plans to develop its own satellite navigation system in order to ensure it has independent access to navigation signals that the country considers vital to future economic development, the […]

There will be no Satellite Today on July 4 in observance of Independence Day in the United States.