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Wall Street Analysis

By | June 30, 2003
By Tom Watts, SG Cowen Securities Ohio Governor Bob Taft signed into law a bill that will apply a 6 percent sales tax to direct broadcast satellite (DBS) services, but...

Canadian Agency Buys Imagery

By | June 23, 2003
Canada’s Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness (OCIPEP) purchased 8,800 square kilometers of one-meter IKONOS satellite imagery for disaster risk assessment and emergency preparedness along the Canada-United States...

General Dynamics To Buy Veridian

By | June 23, 2003
General Dynamics [NYSE: GD] has agreed to buy Veridian Corp. [NYSE: VNX], an Arlington, Va.-based remote sensing and information processing firm, for $35 per share in cash. With the assumption...

LM Team Completes Milstar Check

By | June 23, 2003
A Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT]-led team has completed an accelerated on-orbit checkout of the last Milstar II secure communications satellite and transferred full operational control of the spacecraft to the...

NASA To Launch Scientific Satellite

By | June 23, 2003
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has scheduled an August launch for SciSat, a Canadian scientific satellite. The mission marks the first new Canadian scientific satellite to be launched since...

Boeing Revamps Aviation Strategy

By | June 23, 2003
Boeing [NYSE: BA] is revamping its aviation communications strategy, combining its Connexion by Boeing satellite broadband service with advanced avionics, the company announced during the Paris International Air Show last...

U.S. Faces WRC Challenges

By | June 23, 2003
The International Telecommunication Union’s World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) wrapped up its second week in Geneva tackling an ambitious agenda of spectrum-related initiatives. Among the list of 48 agenda items is...

News Corp-Hughes Deal Draws Fire

By | June 23, 2003
Consumer groups and broadcasters took aim at News Corp’s [NYSE: NWS] proposed acquisition of Hughes Electronics [NYSE: GMH] last week by demanding that restrictions be placed on the combined organization...