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Amsterdam-based MirCorp has entered its first civilian into training at Russia’s Star City. Businessman Dennis Tito is preparing for his commercial flight to the Russian space station slated for next […]

In an effort to avoid the unsanctioned use of the rocket engine RD-180 and to safeguard this technology in conjunction with the organization of production of this engine, Russian and […]

4B A Lockheed Martin Corp.[LMT] Titan 4B rocket successfully launched a reconnaissance spacecraft for the U.S. Air Force and the National Reconnaissance Office from Vandenberg Air Force Base Aug. 17.Lockheed […]

In Orbit The Boeing Co.‘s [BA] Delta 3 launch vehicle successfully launched its first satellite, a simulated payload, at 7:05 a.m. EDT, Aug. 23, giving the fledgling rocket a chance […]

Between Security And Economy, According To Report Business executives wanting to partner with the U.S. military in the 21st century will face greater obstacles beyond baseline contract relations. According to […]

NASA has awarded four small businesses 90-day contracts totaling $902,000 to develop concepts and requirements to provide access to the International Space Station on emerging launch systems. These contracts may […]

Spacehab Inc. [SPAB] said it has finalized contract agreements to fly three additional experiments aboard the company’s Research Double Module on a Space Shuttle mission next year. The three new […]

Slated For Launch Before The End Of The Year Arianespace launched the Nilesat 102 and Brazilsat B4 satellites aboard an Ariane 4 Aug. 17, in a perfect exercise from the […]

Topcon, the $600-million Japanese supplier of optical instrumentation for construction and agriculture, recently announced its acquisition of Javad Positioning Systems, a developer of GPS products for the survey, construction, and […]

By Karekin Jelalian Top-down or bottom-up, the digital audio radio services (DARS) market looks to be a real winner, perhaps more of a winner than any similar mass-market service or […]

Lessons Learned From Iridium, ICO, and Globalstar — Part 1 One of the great controversies of the past decade has been the use of non-geostationary satellites for communications. The low-Earth-orbit […]

While crusaders are tying to find a way to make Iridium LLC successful, others are awaiting news of stability and success of Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF]. Would-be competitor Constellation Communications Inc., […]

Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. [GILTF] reported a profit of $7.9 million or 38 cents per diluted share on revenue of $108.6 million for the second quarter, which ended June 30. […]

Cidera Inc. of Laurel, Md., which specializes in using satellites to deliver Internet traffic, has appointed Jim Garrettson senior vice president for U.S. sales. He will be responsible for the […]

New Iridium Bidders Rise In A Last Ditch Effort To Save The Constellation The story is becoming a very familiar one within the satellite industry. Ever since the high-profile bankruptcy […]

Stratos Global Corp. of Toronto [SGB], a supplier of remote and mobile communications, said it will provide telecom services for more than 600 fixed VSAT sites under a contract announced […]

TMI Communications of Ottawa, the mobile satellite subsidiary of BCE Inc. [BCE], has been licensed by the Venezuelan government to market all of its mobilesat services in that country. Together […]

Stratos Global Corp. [SGB] said it has signed a three-year agreement making it the exclusive supplier of mobile satellite services to Raytheon Marine Co. in the United States and Caribbean. […]

Intellicom Inc. of Livermore, Calif., said it has signed agreement with six companies to supply satellite-based, two-way Internet services. Intellicom is a subsidiary of SoftNet Systems Inc. [SOFN]. “Intellicom’s target […]

Globecomm Systems Inc. [GCOM] of Hauppauge, N.Y., said it has won a $2.4 million contract to supply a new South Korean telecommunications company with a Ka-band earth station network. The […]

UK-based communications and Internet company Energis has taken its first step into the interactive digital TV market by launching a “unique” multi-channel package for corporate content providers. To help it […]

The head of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Broadcasting (IRIB), Ali Larijani, has said that Iran has plans to transmit IRIB programmes to people across Europe and Middle East. Speaking […]

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is to use an end-to-end digital transmission solution provided by BT Broadcast Services to deliver live coverage from the Sydney Olympics to television viewers across […]

Kardio-TV, the German medical channel planned by Munich-based Doc-Media AG in co-operation with Beta Business TV, a subsidiary of Kirch Group, intends to reach 3,000 doctors when it launches via […]

The Eutelsat orbital constellation (Interspace 699, page 8) was badly affected by printer’s gremlins. The corrected version appears below. For good order’s sake it is also worth clarifying that the […]

Italian portal and Yellow Pages publisher Seat Pagine Gialle has agreed to buy 75 per cent of terrestrial TV broadcaster TMC for L750 billion (E387 million). Seat, which is merging […]

Iran’s Deputy Minister of Post, Telegraph and Telephone for National Affairs, Mehdi Tabeshian, said that the tender process to build the national satellite Zohreh is underway, although he did not […]

German anti-media concentration commission Kommission zur Ermittlung der Konzentration im Medienbereich (KEK) has approved BSkyB’s investment in Premiere World. Through subsidiary BSkyB Germany, the UK-based pay-TV group will take a […]

Staff at German news channel n-tv apparently expect the Berlin-based broadcaster to be integrated into the RTL channel family this year. According to n-tv’s programme director, Helmut Brandstatter, it is […]

Interspace’s in-depth study of European satellite activity, compiled by Mike Fallon Key: D – Digital A – Analogue 83 degreesE: Insat-2E D – Doordarshan’s DD1, the national service, has been […]