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Updated — May 15, 2009 – 11:40 a.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: June 13 + Mission: STS-127 […]

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft will launch next week with three space travelers — a Russian, a Japanese and a Canadian — who will initiate the first six-person crew aboard the […]

VIIRS Thermal Vacuum Tests Among Advances NASA Gives Northrop CERES Sensor Contract Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] completed the initial step toward the critical design review (CDR) for the National Polar-orbiting […]

[Satellite Today 05-18-09] Reps. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fl) and Joseph Crowley (D-NY) have introduced a bill to U.S. Congress, which would label satellite operators who broadcast “encitive stations” as associates of […]

[Satellite Today 05-18-09] ATSB will launch its remote sensing satellite, RazakSat, in mid-July after its scheduled April 21 launch was postponed due to technical problems, ATSB announced May 15.     […]

[Satellite Today 05-18-09] ViaSat fourth quarter revenues grew 12 percent to $165.6 million, beating its own expectations and setting the company up for sustainable growth, ViaSat CEO Mark Dankberg said […]

[Satellite Today 05-18-09] GMV opened commercial offices in Malaysia and the Korean Republic, marking the Spain-based company’s entrance into the Asia region, GMV announced May 15.     The company said […]

[Satellite Today 05-18-09] ICO Global Communications is filing legal challenges against the European Commission (EC) over its decision to issue Inmarsat and Solaris Mobile exclusive licenses to operate MSS services […]

It wasn’t easy, but victory finally came in sight today. The crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis had to overcome repeated challenges that years of exhaustive training on the ground couldn’t […]

European Missile Defense Still Alive, Perhaps With Russia As Partner: Gates Lawmakers: Missile Defense Cuts Unwise; Huge Weapons Cuts Challenged In Congress, But Gates Presses For Fiscal 2010 Budget Secretary […]

Uphill Fight Seen To Reverse Gates Missile Defense Cutbacks Attempting to use Navy ships with Aegis weapon control systems and Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptors to defend allied nations from Iranian […]

President Obama is considering whether to name retired Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Charles F. Bolden Jr., 62, a former astronaut, as the first black NASA administrator. Bolden would succeed Michael […]

[Satellite Today 05-15-09] Eutelsat Communications selected Astrium to deliver Atlantic Bird 7, which is scheduled for launch in the fourth quarter of 2011, Astrium announced May 14.    The satellite, […]

[Satellite Today 05-15-09] The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) backed NASA‘s action to award Orbital Sciences the contract to provide commercial resupply services for the International Space Station over PlanetSpace, […]

[Satellite Today 05-15-09] Norsat International Inc. has been selected by the Italian Ministry of Agriculture to manage the satellite-based vessel monitoring system, Blue Box, marking Norsat’s initial entry into the […]

[Satellite Today 05-15-09] Arianespace launched the Herschel and Planck satellites for the European Space Agency (ESA) from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, Arianespace announced May 14.    The two […]

[Satellite Today 05-15-09] Al Jazeera English deployed its Inmarsat Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) X-Stream mobile broadband satellite service provided by Stratos Global Corp., making it the first media organization […]

[Satellite Today 05-15-09] DigitalGlobe priced its initial public offering at $19 per share, above analyst’s estimated range of $16 to $18, according to a U.S. Security Exchage Commission filing made […]

[Satellite Today 05-15-09] The European Commission (EC) selected Inmarsat and Solaris Mobile to operate mobile satellite services (MSS) system in Europe using 60 megahertz of S-band radio spectrum, the EC […]

[Satellite Today 05-14-09] SES Americom-New Skies selected International Datacasting Corp. (IDC) to provide 200 of IDC’s SuperFlex SFX 3102 DVB-S/S2 receivers to SES customers upgrading to DVB-S2 IP platform offerings, […]

[Satellite Today 05-14-09] Intelsat’s revenues rose 10 percent to $631.8 million, according to the operator’s first quarter 2009 financial results released May 13.     Intelsat also saw a wider first-quarter […]

[Satellite Today 05-14-09] Satellite provider Speedcast, has awarded a contract to Sidsa, an international digital technology provider based in Spain, to protect its digital content in Asia and the Middle […]

[Satellite Today 05-14-09] Hughes Network Systems and SatProf will launch a joint web-based platform that aims to deliver faster and more cost effective installation training on Hughes’ global broadband satellite […]

[Satellite Today 05-14-09] Mark Slaughter, CEO and president of RigNet, an enterprise communications company for remote oil and gas industries, was named a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur […]

[Satellite Today 05-14-09] Over the course of the week, Satellite News will be featuring in-depth coverage of the first IP Satellite Summit in Washington D.C. We will feature our articles […]

[Satellite Today 05-13-09] German teleport and satellite service provider CETel, acquired the managed services division of ND SatCom for an undisclosed amount and signed cooperative agreements with ND SatCom for […]

[Satellite Today 05-13-09] European satellite radio company Ondas Media, has entered into a commercial agreement with Renault to install satellite receivers in Renault vehicles and its affiliates across Europe, Ondas […]

[Satellite Today 05-13-09] GeoEye Inc. reported a revenue increase of 26 percent to $45.2 million compared to $35.9 million in the first quarter of 2008 in its first quarter 2009 […]

[Satellite Today 05-13-09] Orbcomm said it lost $7 million during the quarter due to the failure of one of its U.S. Coast Guard Quick Launch satellites in March, according to […]

[Satellite Today 05-13-09] Faizan Productions has signed a lease agreement with Asia Satellite Telecommunications (AsiaSat) for the use of C-band capacity on AsiaSat 3S to broadcast “Madani”, a religious channel, […]