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Wayne Kauffman has joined Spectrum Astro Inc. as director of West Coast operations, responsible for managing the Manhattan Beach, Calif., office. He will be the company’s liaison with its West...

The Orbital Imaging Corp. subsidiary of Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] will participate in the Geography Network, an Internet-based global marketplace for geographic data and services. Orbimage will supply its high-resolution,...

Technicians at Alliant Techsystems Inc. [ATK] completed qualification testing of the solid rocket booster motor that will be used as rocket boosters with The Boeing Co.’s [BA] new Delta 4...

Orbital Sciences Corp.’s [ORB] majority-owned Canadian subsidiary, MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA), has won a $50 million contract for the next-generation robotic arm on the International Space Station. The...

Even though the aviation industry continues to hold the cornerstone for Global Positioning System applications, end users outside the cockpit are not only realizing the value of this satellite technology,...

Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) announced a joint venture with APT Satellite Company Ltd. of Hong Kong, owner and operator of the three-satellite Apstar 1, 1A and 2R system. The agreement was...

Globalstar L.P. [GSTRF] said it supplied 11 Qualcomm Inc. [QCOM] phones to the South Korean delegation to the recent Summit Meeting between the presidents of South and North Korea. South...

Orbcomm Global L.P. [ORB]announced the commercial availability of the Stellar Communications ST2500 GSM subscriber communicator (SC), which can use either GSM cellular systems that are widely used outside North American,...

Qualcomm Inc. [QCOM], which supplies trucking companies with its satellite-based OmniTracs automatic vehicle location and tracking service, has begun a program to expand the service to metropolitan fleet owners, privates...

NEW YORK–Market understanding and flexibility will be the keys to success for next-generation broadband satellite systems. “We are getting close to realizing the next generation of broadband systems,” said Eugene...