webdesign

Echostar Communications Corp. and DirecTV Inc. will market satellite broadband Internet service offered by Wildblue Communications Inc., the companies announced June 9. As part of the agreements, Wildblue will be […]

Less than a year ago, the final report of NASA‘s sweeping Exploration Systems Architecture study squashed the idea of using technology developed under the U.S. Air Force’s Evolved Expendable Launch […]

Healing Hands International (HHI), a non-profit humanitarian organization, plans to use satellite imagery from Digitalglobe for planning and visualization efforts surrounding agricultural development and disaster relief missions in Africa and […]

The 2006 first quarter proved to be a tough one for European satellite pay-TV operators in terms of trying to grow their subscriber bases. Several of the operators have lost […]

ETL.PA Eutelsat‘s announcement that it signed a facilities agreement for a 1.9 billion euro ($2.4 billion) loan is "positive news," Sarah Simon, a media equity analyst at Morgan Stanley, said […]

Cisco has unveiled a module that allows Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.‘s to provide customers satellites services via Cisco routers, the companies announced June 12. Gilat hopes the deal will introduce […]

The U.S. government will fund vastly expensive NASA missions to the moon, Mars and beyond in coming decades, even though federal finances are constrained by daunting deficits, an industry leader […]

Even as NASA faces a mass exodus of top-talent employees reaching retirement age, it has bought out 1,138 employees in the past four years, raising the specter of a workforce […]

U.S. negotiators must focus on persuading North Korea to surrender any capabilities to fire nuclear-tipped missiles toward North America, rather than becoming enmeshed in other issues such as counterfeiting of […]

President Bush signed into law a supplemental appropriations bill that provides funding for various space- and missile-related programs in the current fiscal 2006 that ends Sept. 30. For example, the […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] and Raytheon Co. [RTN] separately received Air Force contracts for the Paveway laser guided bomb program. Lockheed gained a $32.7 million contract to deliver Paveway II […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] finished a four-year program to integrate its precision-strike Hellfire II missile system, including the M299 “smart launcher,” with its first international helicopter launch platform, Eurocopter’s Tiger […]

Raytheon Co. [RTN], Konigsberg Defense [KGBC.OB] and Ericsson [ERICY] will seek a contract that Estonia will award for an air defense missile system, Raytheon announced. They will seek the contract […]

Kazakhstan launched its first satellite, KazSat 1, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the eastern part of the nation, according to news services. The satellite will be used for TV signals […]

The Space Shuttle Discovery will launch on July 1 despite concerns of safety and engineering officials that further redesign work should be performed before the space commuter goes aloft again, […]

A Soyuz launch vehicle lifted from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to place a Resurs-DK remote sensing spacecraft in orbit. It was the 1,709th launch of a Soyuz vehicle, according […]

France and India are celebrating 25 years of collaboration on space programs at events in Paris. The celebration will include Arianspace, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), and the French […]

The Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) is slated for launch July 22, according to NASA. STEREO blastoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., is slated for 3:11 to 3:13 […]

NASA selected Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] to provide an Atlas V rocket to launch the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) in 2009. The Atlas V 541 will lift off from Cape […]

NASA selected GMV Space Systems Inc. to provide mission planning and scheduling software for the first NASA Goddard mission to the moon. GMV’s Flexplan tool, which uses an algorithm generator […]

Planetlink Communications Inc. received a contract to provide GPS-based asset tracking services for a pair of moving and storage companies, Planetlink announced June 14. The agreements expand Planetlink’s deal with […]

Astrata Group Inc. received an order from AST Europe Group AB for 50,000 Fleet Management/AVL devices and associated software, Astrata announced June 14. The order is expected to produce 13.45 […]

A Russian Soyuz rocket launched the Resurs-DK imagery satellite June 15 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, according to Itar-Tass. The satellite can collect imagery with a resolution of 1 meter and also […]

TV Vlaanderen, a new direct-to-home provider in Belgium, signed a deal with SES Astra for more satellite capacity at Astra’s orbital position at 19.2 degrees East. TV Vlaanderen hopes to […]

Raytheon Technical Services Co. LLC signed with the U.S. Navy Inventory Control Point a $31.5 million contract to provide logistics support for the USC-38 satellite communications system. Under the five-year […]

Loral Skynet has launched a group of satellite-based contingency services, the company announced June 15. The services are designed to provide organizations with backup network services in the event terrestrial […]

Sea Launch is scheduled to loft the Galaxy 16 communications satellite into orbit for Panamsat Corp. June 17. The launch, aboard a Zenit-3SL rocket, is scheduled for 3:50 a.m. EDT […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) signed a deal with Spot Image SA that allows the space agency to order more than 10,000 images per year from Spot satellites, ESA announced […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. named Mark Valerio vice president and general manager of special programs for its Space Systems Co, the company announced June 14. Valerio will lead one of Space […]