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Aerojet, a GenCorp [GY] company, successfully completed the first series of vibration and altitude hot fire tests on the next-generation U.S. spaceship rocket engine. In the test, Aerojet checked the […]

[Satellite Today 05-04-09] Australian satellite company Codan has acquired Locus Microwave, a U.S.-based satellite microwave technology company, Codan announced May 1.     The deal, valued at more than $3 million, […]

Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Port Hueneme engineers successfully fired a test launch of the new production configuration of the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) from the Navy Self Defense […]

[Satellite Today 05-04-09] EMS Technologies reported a net loss of $3 million in the 2009 first quarter, compared with net income of $4.2 million in the first quarter of 2008, […]

The Tracking and Data Relay Satellite system (TDRS) K-L program completed its system-level preliminary design review, The Boeing Co. [BA] announced. Boeing is moving toward integrations of the TDRS K […]

[Satellite Today 05-04-09] Bell Canada is proposing a Freesat digital TV service to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the company announced April 29.    Bell said believes the […]

Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and contractor employees were given MDA awards for their performance in helping develop the Airborne Laser missile defense system. ABL is being created by The Boeing […]

[Satellite Today 05-04-09] Giga-Com, a supplier of satellite and terrestrial microwave systems to the media and broadcast industries, has fulfilled a contract for the manufacture, integration and supply of 20 […]

[Satellite Today 05-04-09] Air Austral, a commercial airline based in France, has installed Panasonic’s satellite-provided eX2 in-flight entertainment system on two Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, Panasonic announced May 1.    The […]

[Satellite Today 05-04-09] The May 1 item, “Boeing Completes TDRS Design Review for NASA,” should have said that the critical design review is scheduled to be completed in 2010 and […]

Alcatel-Lucent [ALU] signed two framework agreements worth $1.7 billion with China Mobile and China Telecom, Alcatel-Lucent announced. The deal will provide network upgrades, integration and maintenance services this year. As […]

[Satellite News 05-04-09] The health of the U.S. national security space industrial base is being threatened by a shrinking aerospace workforce, according to an April 30 statement by Aerospace Industries […]

The Navy gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] an $83.6 million firm fixed-price contract for radars needed by the Navy and by allied military forces on their F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighter […]

[Satellite News 05-04-09] The health of the U.S. national security space industrial base is being threatened by a shrinking aerospace workforce, according to an April 30 statement by Aerospace Industries […]

Updated — May 1, 2009 – 12:50 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: May 5 Mission: STSS ATRR […]

The Constellation Program goal of returning Americans to a moon base has been thrown in doubt, a House hearing revealed. Rep. Alan B. Mollohan (D-W.Va.), chairman of the House Appropriations […]

International Launch Services (ILS) will launch a satellite payload IndoStar II/ProtoStar II on May 14 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, ILS reported. The launch at 6:58 a.m. Baikonur time translates […]

The Army gave General Dynamics Corp. [GD] a $150 million contract-change deal to produce Hydra-70 rockets, warheads and motors. Deliveries are expected to begin in September next year. This order […]

The Zefiro 9A third stage rocket motor fired successfully, providing a new small launch vehicle for Europe. That final qualification test firing of the third stage took place at the […]

NASA gave Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] a contract worth up to $44.5 million to provide an instrument that would fly on the long-delayed National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System, or […]

Khaled Derbas Managing Director, SmartSat The Middle East is a market in desperate need of more satellite capacity. It seems as fast as the satellites are going up, the capacity is being snapped up by

TECHNOLOGY Advantech Releases Dual-Operation DVB-S2 VSAT Modem Advantech Satellite Networks released its S5420 DVB-S2 (Digital Video Broadcasting – Satellite – Second Generation)VSAT modem, which is capable of operating in either […]

TECHNOLOGY EchoStar Europe Targets European Cable Market with Set-Top Box EchoStar Europe is targeting the European cable market with a new range of advanced set-top boxes.     EchoStar Europe aims […]

[Satellite Today 05-01-09] Boeing completed the system-level preliminary design review for its Tracking and Data Relay Satellite system (TDRS) for NASA, Boeing announced April 29.     The review, which followed […]

[Satellite Today 05-01-09] KVH Industries received a $1 million order from NovAtel for a self-contained navigation system that combines fiber optic gyro-based inertial measurement technology from KVH with GPS technology, […]

[Satellite Today 05-01-09] Communications and Power Industries Inc. (CPI) was awarded a three-year contract to supply solid-state power amplifiers to Swe-Dish Satellite Systems for use in the Swe-Dish IPT Suitcase […]

[Satellite Today 05-01-09] The final qualification test firing of the third stage solid propellant motor for Europe’s Veega small launch vehicle was conducted at the Salto di Quirra Interforce Test […]

[Satellite Today 05-01-09] BSkyB has reached 1 million high-definition (HD) subscribers according to the company’s first quarter results released April 30.     BSkyB said it reached its milestone after adding […]

[Satellite Today 05-01-09] Comtech Systems has received a $1.6 million increase in funding to its AN/TRC-170 troposcatter engineering and support contract with the U.S. Army, raising the total amount of […]

[Satellite Today 05-01-09] MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) won a multimillion-dollar contract from DigitalGlobe to provide a ground station solution to support the WorldView 1 and WorldView 2 satellites, MDA […]