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XM Satellite Radio added nearly 1.7 million new subscribers in 2006 to close the year with more than 7.6 million subscribers, the company announced Jan. 5. XM fell short of […]

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) was awarded a contract to deliver a high-power satellite to ProtoStar Ltd., SS/L announced Jan. 5. SS/L will modify the previously built ChinaSat-8 satellite for ProtoStar. The […]

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) was awarded a contract to deliver a high-power satellite to ProtoStar Ltd., SS/L announced Jan. 5. SS/L will modify the previously built ChinaSat-8 satellite for ProtoStar. The […]

Moving to position itself to meet growing commercial demand for high-resolution satellite imagery, DigitalGlobe awarded Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. a contract to build the WorldView 2 satellite, DigitalGlobe announced […]

Globecomm Systems Inc. announced Dec. 21 that it has been awarded a five-year, $5.5 million contract from Harris Corp. to provide support services for the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s Telecommunications […]

Liberty Media Corp. has entered into a definitive agreement to exchange its 16.3 percent stake in News Corp. for News Corp.’s 38.5 percent stake in DirecTV Group Inc., the companies […]

ShifTV Inc., an Internet broadcaster of ethnic and niche programming, announced Dec. 20 an exclusive IPTV agreement with Sky Angel, a U.S.-based direct-to-home satellite broadcaster of Christian and family-oriented programming […]

Swales Aerospace has completed a critical design review for the TacSat-3 Modular Bus program, the company announced. TacSat-3 is sponsored by the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicle Directorate as […]

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract valued at about $50 million to execute a system design review for the next-generation GPS space segment, Lockheed Martin announced […]

Alcatel Alenia Space will manufacture the W7 satellite for Eutelsat Communications, the two companies announced Dec. 21. The spacecraft, scheduled for launch in the second quarter of 2009, will be […]

UGS Corp. will supply its NX digital product development software to Rocketplane Kistler Inc. (RPK) for the development of the K-1 launch vehicle, UGS announced. The K-1 is a fully […]

The Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) businesses of Loral Space & Communications Inc. and Telesat Canada will be combined under a new Canadian company that will become the fourth largest operator […]

The Wildblue-1 satellite has been delivered to the Arianespace spaceport in French Guiana in advanced of its scheduled launch in early December, a move that Wildblue Communications Inc. hopes will […]

Experts from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Federation of American Scientists (FAS) used Google Earth satellite imagery technology to release Nov. 9 an interactive, 3-dimensional map to track […]

As part of his stand-up act, comedian Steven Wright used to say that he had "a map of the United States, actual size." To see and peruse some of Microsoft’s […]