Finance

The announcement that Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) will manufacture the NSS-12 spacecraft for SES New Skies came as small but further indication of the overall health of SS/L’s parent company just...

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI) and Arianespace have agreed to combine their commercial satellite launch services, the companies announced on April 24. The agreement will provide customers with a choice...

Globecomm Globecomm Systems Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the GlobalSat division of Lyman Bros. Inc., Globecomm announced April 24. The purchase price is $18.4 million and...

Bigelow Aerospace thinks the secret to turning the suborbital tourism marketing in a successful business is by selling "hang time" to "sovereign clients" — specifically astronaut-supporting countries harboring aspirations of...

Pending a meeting of the Sea Launch Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB), the launch provider is anticipating its return to flight in October, Sea Launch said April 3. The mission...

There is much romanticism about the early days of the satellite industry. The history of scientists and engineers such as Conny Kullman, Bob Berry and Steve Dorfman leading the development...

Even though the second demonstration flight of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX)’s Falcon 1 failed to reach orbit and was presumed lost at sea only moments after its launch from Kwajalein...

A star-crossed start of the year for Sea Launch saw the launch provider take another hit with the March 1 announcement that Arianespace has been retained to launch the Spaceway-3...

A shortage of funds will mean that NASA will see a delay of up to six months for the scheduled first launch of the next-generation Orion-Ares crew exploration vehicle, NASA...

It is, quite simply, a spectacular 18 seconds of video. The explosion that destroyed Sea Launch’s Zenit-3SL rocket and SES New Skies’ NSS-8 satellite, creating a fireball that engulfed the...