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[Satellite Today 03-23-09] Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has selected Integral Systems’ Epoch Integrated Product Suite) to support Mitsubishi’s DS2000 satellite platform, Integral announced March 19.     Under the terms of the […]

[Satellite Today 03-23-09] Harris Corp. received a $30 million contract from the U.S. Navy First Construction Division — the Seabees — to provide multiband satellite reachback capabilities from around the […]

[Satellite Today 03-23-09] All 11 Thales Alenia Space industrial sites located in France, Italy, Belgium and Spain have been certified to Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 3, Thales Alenia […]

[Satellite Today 03-23-09] NDS has opened a research and development facility in China, the company said March 20.     NDS, a supplier of conditional access (CA) and middleware solutions to […]

Rep. Ellen O. Tauscher (D-Calif.), who chairs the House Armed Services Committee strategic forces subcommittee, whom President Obama has chosen for a nonproliferation post in the State Department, made comments […]

A Proton M rocket in early May will launch the IndoStar II/ ProtoStar II satellite built by The Boeing Co. [BA]. Krunichev built the Proton M in Moscow, and shipped […]

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) will add a government payload to Sirius 5, a satellite for SES (Euronext Paris:SESG) (Luxembourg Stock Exchange:SESG), currently under construction at the spacecraft manufacturing facility in California. […]

Charles Simonyi will launch Thursday on a Soyuz space vehicle, becoming the first space tourist to visit the International Space Station twice. He is the seventh tourist whose voyage was […]

The Navy gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a $106 million contract to produce Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 missiles for the Navy and key allies. The new C-1 variant will be network-enabled, […]

The Air Force gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a $23 million undefinitized with firm fixed price contract for production of 70 Maverick Missiles and a guidance and control section. A unit […]

GMD System Operations And Sustainment At Stake; Missile Defense Agency Contract Sought Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] will take on The Boeing Co. [BA] in a fight for an operations and […]

[Satellite Today 03-20-09] IPStar Co., subsidiary of Thaicom, has received the necessary licenses from the Japanese government to bring satellite broadband services to Japan, the Thai satellite operator announced March. […]

[Satellite Today 03-20-09] Mobision has selected Newtec’s Horizon HZ420 equipment for use in what Newtec claims is the Middle East’s first ever paid mobile television service for mobile phones and […]

[Satellite News 03-20-09] Inmarsat posted better-than-expected results in 2008, with pre-tax profits increasing by more than 50 percent over 2007 to $193.8 million. Inmarsat also recorded total revenues of $996.7 […]

[Satellite Today 03-20-09] GeoEye has started delivering high-resolution, color satellite imagery from its newest satellite to Google, GeoEye announced March. 19.     The images from GeoEye-1 include shots of the […]

[Satellite Today 03-20-09] XipLink has named Diem Technologies, based in Genova, Italy, a value-added reseller to provide delivery and logistics support for XipLink’s XA-Series of appliances and the XipStick portable […]

[Satellite Today 03-20-09] Stratos Global Corp. signed an agreement to become a global distributor of two new ViaSat ruggedized BGAN terminals, the companies announced March 19.     Stratos will distribute […]

[Satellite News 03-19-09] While there will be plenty of launch opportunities within India, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) also hopes to make inroads internationally in the next five years, […]

[Satellite Today 03-19-09] There has been a revival in the satellite broadband market thanks to the falling price of terminals and the emergence of Ka-band satellites, according to the findings […]

[Satellite Today 03-19-09] Faria’s WatchDog 750 long-range identification and tracking (LRIT) ship terminal has completed compliance and testing requirements for operation on the Iridium satellite network, Faria announced March 17. […]

[Satellite Today 03-19-09] The Civil and Commercial Applications Project (CCAP) group within the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) asid the geolocation accuracy and performance of Infoterra’s TerraSAR-X data product exceeds […]

[Satellite Today 03-19-09] Türk Telekom has selected Envivio Inc.’s Convergence series video headend for its IPTV project in Turkey, Envivio announced March 17.     Türk Telekom will use Envivio 4Caster […]

[Satellite Today 03-19-09] EchoStar Europe is targeting the European cable market with a new range of advanced set-top boxes, the company announced March 18.     EchoStar Europe said it aims […]

[Satellite Today 03-19-09] GeoEye Inc. has signed agreements with several international resellers to provide high-resolution satellite imagery and value-added products from GeoEye-1 to Beijing Earth Observation (BEO), Space Imaging Middle […]

[Satellite Today 03-19-09] GlobeCast has launched its second MCPC platform on the AsiaSat 3S satellite, GlobeCast announced March 18.     The C-band platform is located at 105.5 degrees East with […]

[Satellite Today 03-19-09] Intelsat Ltd. reported 2008 fourth quarter revenues of $608.8 million and full-year revenues of $2.3 billion, the company announced March 18.     The operator also reported fourth […]

[Satellite Today 03-18-09] Loral Space & Communications Inc. reported a net loss of $692.9 million in 2008, the company announced March 17. The losses were mainly attributed to non-cash charges […]

[Satellite Today 03-18-09] ViaSat  received an order from the U.S. Army for initial production of the next generation Blue Force Tracking (BFT-2) transceivers for the Force 21 Battle Command Brigade […]

[Satellite Today 03-18-09] Arrowhead Global Solutions has been awarded a pair of multimillion dollar contracts to provide more than 200 megahertz of commercial X-band satellite services to two U.S. government […]

[Satellite Today 03-18-09] Globecomm Systems has selected Spectracom to supply network synchronization subsystems for Globecomm’s new satellite communications system, Spectracom announced March 17.    The contract, valued at $500,000, includes […]