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Americom Government Services Inc. (AGS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of SES Americom, said May 31 it received a contract through prime contractor Innovative Technologies Inc. to provide the satellite communications bandwidth...

Radyne Comstream Inc. announced May 31 that it completed its acquisition of Xicom Technology. After final adjustments, Radyne paid $37.7 million in cash, 219,708 shares of stock and assumed $5.1...

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) performed a 5-second test firing of its main engine May 28, SpaceX announced. The wet dress rehearsal took place at the company’s Space Launch Complex-3 West...

Saunders Kramer passed away May 30 in Washington, D.C., after complications following heart surgery. He was 84. Kramer, while working at Lockheed Missiles and Space in the late 1950s, was...

The Tuttle family of Strasburg, Colo., became the first subscriber of Wildblue Communications Inc.‘s two-way broadband satellite service June 2, and if the service turns out to be successful, the...

With Mexican satellite operator Satelites Mexicanos S.A. de C.V.‘s (Satmex) facing numerous questions about its future, a group of the company’s creditors filed an involuntary Chapter 11 petition against Satmex...

Loral Space & Communications Ltd. moved a step closer to emerging from bankruptcy when the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved, June 1, the company’s...

Tracking people using GPS technology, particularly paroled felons, is gaining media attention. Now GPS Tracks LLC is applying that concept to help people keep track of something a bit closer...

While market conditions continue to be tough for satellite manufacturers, Alcatel Space CEO Pascale Sourisse is confident the company’s prospects for revenue growth prospects will remain strong. Whether it is...

The biggest news affecting a publicly-traded company in the past five business days leading up to this issue’s June 3 publication was the launch of an investigation of Orbital Sciences...