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BY RICHARD MULLEN The lack of a "viable strategic plan" at the Pentagon for developing and acquiring unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has resulted in a wide range of problems in […]

BY KEITH STEIN The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Space Vehicles Directorate (VS), announced last week they are ready to accept detailed cost and technical proposals for a Flight Demonstration […]

The Missile Defense Agency is awarding the Raytheon Co., of Woburn, Mass., a cost-plus-award-fee letter contract. This contract is to upgrade the early warning radar at Thule Air Base, Greenland. […]

Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems and Solution, Santa Maria, Calif., has been awarded a $408 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract. This contract is basic ordering period for four years and ten […]

Raytheon Co., Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $29.5 million cost-plus-award-fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-03-C-5330) to provide engineering and technical services in support of the Standard Missile-2 Guided […]

The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, Mass., is being awarded a $26.9 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract to provide repair and recertification of MK-6 guidance systems, including pendulous integrating gyroscopic accelerometers, inertial […]

Northrop Grumman Space and Mission Systems Corp., Redondo Beach, Calif., is being awarded a $16.6 million cost plus award fee contract modification to provide for the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental […]

NASA has selected Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, Md., for the Laboratory for Atmospheres Scientific and Technical Support Services contract. The award is a five-year cost-plus award fee, indefinite […]

XCOR Aerospace announced April 6 the successful testing of its new thermoplastic fluoropolymer composite material. NASA‘s White Sands Test Facility located in southwest New Mexico conducted ignition and oxygen compatibility […]

Satlynx S.A. extended its geographical coverage beyond Europe with the introduction of a new service platform, the company announced. The Satlynx 9000, along with space segment capacity from RSCC, will […]

Modulus Video Inc. announced April 6 that recent orders for its MPEG-4 AVC standard definition and high definition video encoding systems have exceeded $10 million. Included in this recent orders […]

SES Astra signed a deal with French pay-TV group Canal+, which will see the group use a transponder at 19.2 degrees East to broadcast high-definition (HD) content, SES announced April […]

France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications has signed on as the first sales associate to offer the Connexion by Boeing maritime high-speed connectivity service to the commercial shipping industry, Boeing announced […]

Boeing‘s Orbital Express system completed a pair of test milestones, Boeing announced April 4. Boeing completed its baseline integrated system test of the Autonomous Space Transport Robotic Operations spacecraft and […]

BAE Systems signed a memorandum of agreement with U.K.-based Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) to market the technology firm’s small satellite technology and processes to customers in the United States, […]

The European Space Agency (ESA)’s awarded three study contracts under Phase A of its Near-Earth Object (NEO) deflecting mission dubbed Don Quijote. Although the risk of a large asteroid colliding […]

Telenor Satellite Services and Addvalue Technologies Ltd. unveiled their first offering under a previously announced strategic partnership. The companies will bundle Addvalue’s Sabre 1 Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) terminal […]

Caprock Communications announced April 4 that it appointed Tore Hilde vice president of European operations. In addition to expanding Caprock’s European presence, Hilde will be in charge of launching a […]

Robert Peckham has been named interim president and general manager of the Sea Launch Company LLC, effective March 30. Peckham has served as vice president of sales and marketing for […]

Nera will sell its DVB-RCS business to STM Group USA for about $2.5 million, Nera announced April 3. The transfer includes the Nera Satlink series and all intellectual property rights […]

Thales agreed to acquire Alcatel‘s 67 percent stake in satellite manufacturer Alcatel Alenia Space, the companies announced April 5. Thales will issue 26.7 million shares of stock to Alcatel and […]

Orbimage Holdings Inc., which does business under the name Geoeye, will amend its second and third quarter 2005 financial statements, the company announced March 30. The changes to the quarters […]

SES Americom has launched a competition for college studens designed to identify commercially viable ideas and concepts that show promise of advancing communications satellite technology and services, the company announced […]

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems was awarded an $8.3 million contract to provide development, analysis, operations and support of the GPS Interference And Navigation Tool (GIANT). GIANT, a simulation tool […]

Spacedev‘s Starsys division has been awarded two contracts from the U.S. Air Force to continue the development of deployable boom structures for satellites, Spacedev announced April 4. Deployable booms are […]

Direct 8, a new entertainment channel launched March 31, has concluded an agreement to broadcast its signal via Eutelsat Communications satellites, Eutelsat announced April 3. Under the five-year contract, Eutelsat […]

Boeing awarded ViaSat Inc. a contract valued at about $57 million to develop the ground-based beam-forming system for the new Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) communications network, Boeing announced April 4. […]

Alcatel Alenia Space will begin studying the design of Globalstar’s next-generation satellite constellation, Globalstar announced April 4. Under the agreement, Alcatel Alenia Space will perform an analysis of future requirements […]

EMS Technologies Inc. Defense & Space Systems Division announced April 3 the addition of new staff to oversee the development of technology solutions for U.S. government laboratories and airborne and […]

SES Atra has appointed Wolfgang Keuntje managing director of a new subsidiary tasked with establishing a digital infrastructure in Germany, the company announced. The company will offer broadcasters expanded services […]