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NASA’s newest high-performance rocket engine, the J-2X, successfully completed its critical design review, NASA announced. The engine passed the milestone at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. That J-2X...

Sea Launch took delivery of the SICRAL 1B communications satellite at the payload processing facility at the Sea Launch home port in the Port of Long Beach. With additional arrivals...

United Launch Alliance plans to lay off hundreds of workers next year, the Denver Business Journal reported. ULA is a joint venture of The Boeing Co. [BA] and Lockheed Martin...

China used a Long March 311 rocket to launch a telecommunications satellite for Venezuela, the first time China made and launched a bird for a Latin American nation, Xinhua news...

Arianespace and Thales Alenia Space have entered a deal for launching the pan-African communications satellite, Rascom-QAF 1R. It is scheduled for launch into geostationary transfer orbit in 2010. It will...

[Satellite News 10-22-08] A jury awarded ICO Global Communications at least $371 million plus interest in its breach of contract lawsuit filed against Boeing Co. and Boeing Satellite Systems International...

[Satellite News 10-20-08] CEOs from the satellite industry’s largest companies remain largely optimistic about their prospects despite the current worldwide economic crisis.     “The good news is, nobody blames the...

[Satellite News 10-15-08] The discussion between financial analysts and satellite executives at the ISIS Satellite Investment Symposium was dominated by talk of the recent financial crisis on Wall Street.    ...

[Satellite News 10-09-08] The spiralling cost of launch services remains a major concern for fixed satellite services (FSS) operators around the globe.     “I believe satellites and launchers are too...

[Satellite News 09-29-08] After six years and three failed attempts, Space Exploration Technology Corp. (SpaceX) launched the first privately funded, liquid-fuelled rocket into orbit Sept. 28, the company said.    ...