E-letter: Curated Content

The U.S. Military’s decision to sign a $10 million, one-year deal lease with a Chinese firm to use the Apstar-7 satellite, built by Thales Alenia Space, to provide communications for its Africa Command has stirred up opinions from critics.

Iraq has accused 10 satellite channels, including Al Jazeera, of airing "misleading and exaggerated" coverage of recent fighting and "promoting violence."

A new report from the U.S. General Accountability Office (GAO) has highlighted how the Department of Defense’s (DOD) satellite control networks are fragmented and potentially duplicative.

A new report from Digital TV Research indicates that the digital TV penetration in Latin America is about to shoot up.

NASA has awarded the University of California, Berkeley, up to $200 million to build a satellite to study how the Earth's weather affects the weather at the edge of space.

NASA has unveiled its plans to develop the technology and infrastructure to retrieve asteroids for human research.

Orbital Sciences is preparing for the first-ever launch of its 135-foot-tall Antares rocket. The Antares is scheduled for liftoff at 5:00 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, April 17, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

The University of Hawaii is planning the first satellite launch from the islands of Hawaii using the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai. The military has used the facility to test missiles but never a satellite.

The Obama administration’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget request presented this week included a proposal to pursue an environmental satellite championed by Al Gore.

Boeing is introducing a new line of small satellites through its research arm Boeing Phantom Works. The Phantom Phoenix line of satellites would weight up to 1,000 kilos and can be adapted for short-term experiments or operational missions lasting seven or more years.