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U.S. Intelligence Unsure Whether Iran Already Bought Nuclear Bomb From Another Nation: Witnesses U.S. Intel Experts Say Iran Wields Technological Know-How To Build Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Iran is moving in […]

GREENBELT, Md. — Even before President Obama releases his detailed federal government budget plan for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2009, leaders of NASA centers across the nation are […]

GREENBELT, Md. – Any changes that President Obama may make in the U.S. space program should be made swiftly, to reduce anxiety and uncertainty caused by rumors churning throughout industry, […]

Research on the International Space Station (ISS) has discovered ways to lessen virulence of a common food poisoning disease organism, NASA announced. The organism that can cause food poisoning in […]

[Satellite Today 03-13-09] Inmarsat earnings grew 12.5 percent in 2008 to $431.6 million, according to the company’s preliminary financial results released March 12.     Revenues increased by about 14 percent […]

[Satellite News 03-13-09] Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) hopes to launch its ABS-2 satellite in 2011, and CEO Tom Choi expects that within the next 12 months, the operator will have […]

[Satellite Today 03-13-09] Networkfleet Inc. has made high-resolution satellite and hybrid maps available to its flagship Networkfleet wireless fleet management system, the company announced March 11.     Networkfleet combines GPS […]

[Satellite Today 03-13-09] Uplogix, a provider of secure remote management solutions, named Transcendent Global Networks LLC a channel partner with a focus on satellite and energy markets, Uplogix announced March […]

[Satellite Today 03-13-09] Norsat International Inc. reported a 10 percent increase in revenues, which jumped from $16.5 million in 2007 to $18.1 million in 2008, according to its financial report […]

[Satellite Today 03-13-09] Harmonic Inc., a provider of broadcast and on-demand video delivery solutions, completed its acquisition of Scopus Video Networks Ltd. for $5.62 per share in cash, Harmonic announced […]

[Satellite Today 03-13-09] EADS Astrium revenues increased by 21 percent to 4.2 billion euros ($5.3 billion), driven by contributions from all three of its business units and a focus on […]

[Satellite Today 03-12-09] AsiaSat will deregister from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and terminate its reporting obligations, the company announced March 10.     AsiaSat delisted its American depositary […]

[Satellite Today 03-12-09] Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) completed a full mission-duration firing of its Merlin vacuum engine March 7 at SpaceX’s test facility in McGregor, Texas, the company announced […]

[Satellite Today 03-12-09] ComDev reported a 26 percent increase in revenue in its first quarter of 2009, at $56.5 million compared to $44.9 million in 2008, the company announced March […]

[Satellite Today 03-12-09] Bourbon, a French marine services group, has chosen Orange Business Services for the modernization of the communications system for its fleet of 150 vessels, Orange announced March […]

[Satellite Today 03-12-09] Sirius XM Radio added about 83,000 new subscribers at the end of the year, well short of the 1.1 million subscribers the company added in the fourth […]

[Satellite Today 03-12-09] Thales Alenia Space has won a contract with JSC ISS-Reshetnev Co. to supply the Telkom-3 communications satellite payload, the company announced March 11.     ISS is the […]

[Satellite Today 03-12-09] International Launch Services (ILS) has been contracted by ViaSat to the launch the ViaSat-1 satellite on an ILS Proton in the first half of 2011, ILS announced […]

[Satellite News 03-11-08] Mediascape has launched a satellite pay-TV platform, Cignal Digital TV, in the Philippines, targeting the 2 million households not served by cable.     “We are trying to […]

[Satellite Today 03-11-09] Raytheon, along with Northrop Grumman and the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Integrated Program Office have deployed and demonstrated the ground segment’s interface data processing […]

[Satellite Today 03-11-09] SES Astra will move its Astra 2C satellite from its current orbital position at 28.2 degrees East to 31.5 degrees East to take over the mission of […]

[Satellite Today 03-11-09] TeamCast is releasing Power4-T2, the first version of its DVB-T2 modulator, the company announced March 10.     The company said the solution had just completed DVB-T2 testing, […]

[Satellite Today 03-11-09] Swe-Dish Satellite Systems unveiled its FA120KS Fly-Away satellite communications terminal with multi-band capability, the company announced March 10.     The FA120KS is being marketed for voice, video […]

[Satellite Today 03-11-09] Twenty First Century Systems (21CSI) has entered into an agreement with Infoterra to become the U.S. distributor of its satellite based synthetic aperture radar TerraSAR-X services, 21CSI […]

[Satellite Today 03-11-09] International Datacasting Corp. (IDC), in partnership with its Australian-based distributor, OmniCast, received an order from Global Vision Networks for the provision of a digital cinema broadband distribution […]

[Satellite Today 03-11-09] Thuraya has launched a satellite-based Public Calling Office (PCO) service in Zambia and Cameroon, the company announced March 10.     Thuraya’s PCO is a telephone unit providing […]

[Satellite Today 03-10-09] SkyTerra appointed Gary Epstein as executive vice president of law and regulation, the company announced March 9.     Epstein will be responsible for the legal, legislative and […]

[Satellite Today 03-10-09] TriaGnoSys is set to reveal a next-generation Newsky Network air traffic control service that integrates satellite technology to provide graphical weather maps, Voice Over IP and passenger […]

[Satellite Today 03-10-09] Swe-Dish Satellite Systems launched a high-capacity satcom-on-the-move terminal, the company announced March 9.     The terminal is the result of an integration of Swe-Dish’s satellite terminal technology […]

[Satellite Today 03-10-09] Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp. launched its next-generation Blue Force Tracking High Capacity (BFT-HC) solution for satellite-enhanced asset tracking and secure mobile data communications, Comtech announced March 9. […]