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The German Space Agency DLR and EADS Astrium will collaborate on a new radar imagery satellite that will help map the Earth, the organizations announced May 17. The spacecraft, dubbed […]

Inmarsat posted a profit of $14.8 million in its 2006 first quarter on revenues of $121.7 million, the company announced May 17. In the same period a year ago, the […]

Swe-Dish Satellite Systems AB and Saab AB unveiled a demonstrator for an affordable satcom-on-the-move platform based combining the companies’ existing technologies and commercial -off-the-shelf components. The platform integrates Swe-Dish’s satellite […]

Telenor Satellite Services, a subsidiary of Telenor of Norway, has appointed Robert Baker president of Telenor Satellite Services’ operations and holdings companies in the United States, the company announced May […]

The Australian government will extends its program for subsidizing the purchase of satellite phones for people living or working in remote parts of the country through 2009, the minister for […]

Premiere has chosen NDS middleware to help power the German pay-TV operator’s new interactive platform in Germany and Austria. Premiere will deploy NDS Mediahighway middleware, which will enable Premiere to […]

Spacedev Inc. reported revenues of $7.2 million in the first quarter of 2006, up nearly 300 percent from the same period a year ago, primarily due to the acquisition of […]

Boeing Co. has agreed to pay the U.S. government $615 million to settle charges of ethical misconduct surrounding the U.S. Air Force’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle 9 (EELV) competition and […]

A Northrop Grumman Corp. team completed a series of tests that proved a key element of NASA‘s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can function in space, the company announced May […]

Telenor Satellite Services will offer customers who activate Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) service in May and June $1,000 of free airtime, the company announced May 15. This Free Airtime […]

Spacenet Inc. has unveiled its Connexstar SE On-Demand, a new service designed to provide satellite-based mission critical backup and business continuity solutions. The service, based on the Gilat Skyedge VSAT […]

Eumetsat, the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites, has signed an agreement with CNES, the French space agency, concerning the European contribution to the Jason-2 Program, an Earth […]

A pair of Democrats on the House Science Committee have called for Conrad Lautenbacher, administrator of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), to be fired due to problems […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Avanti Screenmedia Group PLC signed a contract to begin work on the Highly Flexible Satellite (Hylas) program, a Ka-/Ku-band satellite that will provide broadband […]

Spirent Federal has provided the U.S. Navy with a simulation system that will be used to test a variety of GPS receivers, the company announced. The systems, acquired by Naval […]

Saab Ericsson Space signed a contract for production of guidance computers and telemetry antennas for the Ariane 5 launch vehicle, the company announced May 11. The order, valued at 10 […]

Microsoft Corp. and the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) signed an agreement to develop new technologies for delivering geospatial data via the Internet, the organizations announced May 11. Under a […]

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract by state-owned Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group to manufacture and deliver Vietnam’s first telecommunications satellite, Lockheed Martin announced May 12. Under the terms […]

Worldspace Inc. reported revenues of $3.5 million in the first quarter of 2006, up 35 percent from revenues of $2.6 million in the 2005 first quarter due to increased subscriber […]

Members of the House Science Committee lambasted the oversight of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program in a May 11 hearing, citing soaring costs, schedules missed and […]

A team of students from the Climate Change College was using Inmarsat‘s Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN), system to maintain contact with headquarters and loved ones during a 10-day expedition […]

DISH Echostar Communications Corp.‘s first quarter profit was nearly cut in half, hampered in part by a charge related to a lawsuit from Tivo Inc. over digital video recorder technology, […]

Four teams are competing for a U.S. Air Force contract to develop an advanced launch vehicle that consists of a reusable first stage and an expendable second stage booster. The […]

By George Cahlink The House overwhelmingly passed a more than half a trillion-dollar defense authorization bill for 2007, after resisting an attempt to slash spending on some missile defense programs. […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) said the integrated flight test of Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) element met […]

By Dave Ahearn Members of a House committee lambasted the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) program, citing soaring costs, schedules missed and performance fees paid to the contractor […]

Substantial cuts that congressional authorization panels are making in authorizations for the Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) will delay the anti-ballistic-missile program and limit U.S. choices for defensive systems, Lt. Gen. […]

The final report of the NATO Missile Defense Feasibility Study was delivered yesterday to the North Atlantic Council, the alliance’s senior political governing body. Marshall Billingslea, NATO’s assistant secretary general […]

Boeing [BA] tested modified underground silo and launch system components for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) interceptor, the company announced.This opens the way for the silo system to engage in […]

Alcatel and Lucent Technologies filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on their planned trans-Atlantic merger. The statement includes the Alcatel preliminary prospectus outlining the deal, […]