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Alcatel-Lucent, Thales Alcatel-Lucent completed the transfer of Alcatel’s shares in Alcatel Alenia Space and Telespazio to Thales. Thales and Finmeccanica then combined their space operations under an entity dubbed the...

Bigelow Aerospace thinks the secret to turning the suborbital tourism marketing in a successful business is by selling "hang time" to "sovereign clients" — specifically astronaut-supporting countries harboring aspirations of...

Intelsat officials met with Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the United States April 10 to discuss how to stop unauthorized use of an Intelsat satellite by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil...

Optus, the Australian telco owned by Singapore Telecom, already has 25 percent of the capacity sold on its D3 satellite. Optus announced April 3 it will invest in a new...

While American professional sports are concerning themselves with performance-enhancers of a different sort, the Australian Football League (AFL) is hoping to expand its use of personal GPS devices to track...

AsiaSat no longer is part of the SES Global family, but while new owners are onboard, many of the company’s operational challenges will remain the same. The operator announced that...

The continued flow of rhetoric between the interested parties concerning the proposed merger of Sirius Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio has seemed itself to provide enough content for a...

ATK Alliant Techsystems (ATK) will acquire Swales Aerospace, ATK announced April 3. Swales, based in Beltsville, Md., provides satellite components and subsystems, small spacecraft, and engineering services to NASA, the...

Pending a meeting of the Sea Launch Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB), the launch provider is anticipating its return to flight in October, Sea Launch said April 3. The mission...

Recent solar activity has proven a previously unrealized weakness of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology, scientists warned last week during the first Space Weather Enterprise Forum, held in Washington, D.C.....