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[Satellite Today 05-04-09] Giga-Com, a supplier of satellite and terrestrial microwave systems to the media and broadcast industries, has fulfilled a contract for the manufacture, integration and supply of 20 […]

[Satellite Today 05-04-09] Bell Canada is proposing a Freesat digital TV service to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the company announced April 29.    Bell said believes the […]

[Satellite Today 05-04-09] EMS Technologies reported a net loss of $3 million in the 2009 first quarter, compared with net income of $4.2 million in the first quarter of 2008, […]

[Satellite Today 05-04-09] Australian satellite company Codan has acquired Locus Microwave, a U.S.-based satellite microwave technology company, Codan announced May 1.     The deal, valued at more than $3 million, […]

Contractor Employees At Risk; Some Will Shift To Other Jobs In Their Companies The beginning of the end has arrived for workers in the space shuttle program, with 160 workers […]

Needed: a huge vacuum cleaner that can roam around in low Earth orbit. While the danger of catastrophic collisions in space is rising steadily, cost and feasibility issues mean development […]

Some 300,000 Pieces Of Space Junk Imperil Billions Of Dollars Worth Of Spacecraft; Exponential Risk Rise Seen Spacecraft operators later this year may gain access to better warnings of space […]

For Fiscal 2008-2013, Cost Overruns Total Some $10.9 Billion For Satellites The Department of Defense (DOD) has a poor track record in its military satellites development efforts, the Government Accountability […]

$2.5 Billion For 2011 Space Shuttle Trips In Budget Bill Won’t Fund Extra Flights; Also, Appropriations, Authorization Needed NASA gave Space Shuttle Atlantis a clean bill of health, saying it […]

The Zefiro 9A third stage rocket motor fired successfully, providing a new small launch vehicle for Europe. That final qualification test firing of the third stage took place at the […]

International Launch Services (ILS) will launch a satellite payload IndoStar II/ProtoStar II on May 14 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, ILS reported. The launch at 6:58 a.m. Baikonur time translates […]

Updated — May 1, 2009 – 12:50 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2009 Launches Date: May 5 Mission: STSS ATRR […]

The Navy gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] an $83.6 million firm fixed-price contract for radars needed by the Navy and by allied military forces on their F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighter […]

Alcatel-Lucent [ALU] signed two framework agreements worth $1.7 billion with China Mobile and China Telecom, Alcatel-Lucent announced. The deal will provide network upgrades, integration and maintenance services this year. As […]

[Satellite Today 05-01-09] Eutelsat Communications launched its Tooway consumer Internet access service in the United Kingdom, the company announced April 30.     Tooway, which aims to deliver speeds of 2 […]

[Satellite Today 05-01-09] MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) won a multimillion-dollar contract from DigitalGlobe to provide a ground station solution to support the WorldView 1 and WorldView 2 satellites, MDA […]

[Satellite Today 05-01-09] Comtech Systems has received a $1.6 million increase in funding to its AN/TRC-170 troposcatter engineering and support contract with the U.S. Army, raising the total amount of […]

[Satellite Today 05-01-09] BSkyB has reached 1 million high-definition (HD) subscribers according to the company’s first quarter results released April 30.     BSkyB said it reached its milestone after adding […]

[Satellite Today 05-01-09] The final qualification test firing of the third stage solid propellant motor for Europe’s Veega small launch vehicle was conducted at the Salto di Quirra Interforce Test […]

[Satellite Today 05-01-09] Communications and Power Industries Inc. (CPI) was awarded a three-year contract to supply solid-state power amplifiers to Swe-Dish Satellite Systems for use in the Swe-Dish IPT Suitcase […]

[Satellite Today 05-01-09] KVH Industries received a $1 million order from NovAtel for a self-contained navigation system that combines fiber optic gyro-based inertial measurement technology from KVH with GPS technology, […]

[Satellite Today 05-01-09] Boeing completed the system-level preliminary design review for its Tracking and Data Relay Satellite system (TDRS) for NASA, Boeing announced April 29.     The review, which followed […]

TECHNOLOGY EchoStar Europe Targets European Cable Market with Set-Top Box EchoStar Europe is targeting the European cable market with a new range of advanced set-top boxes.     EchoStar Europe aims […]

TECHNOLOGY Advantech Releases Dual-Operation DVB-S2 VSAT Modem Advantech Satellite Networks released its S5420 DVB-S2 (Digital Video Broadcasting – Satellite – Second Generation)VSAT modem, which is capable of operating in either […]

Khaled Derbas Managing Director, SmartSat The Middle East is a market in desperate need of more satellite capacity. It seems as fast as the satellites are going up, the capacity is being snapped up by

[Satellite Today 04-30-09] The Japanese government is in a development phase to launch an early warning satellite that can detect missile launches by 2013 and increase the number of the […]

[Satellite Today 04-30-09] DigitalGlobe will launch its initial public offering on May 14, when it is scheduled to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "DGI," […]

[Satellite Today 04-30-09] SES reported revenues of 423.9 million euros ($562 million), an increase of 8.4 percent over the same period in 2008, according to the company’s first quarter financial […]

[Satellite Today 04-30-09] NDS signed a contract with DoxTV, a value-added service provider in China, to bring digital TV services and Video-on-Demand to the country and provide an end-to-end suite […]

[Satellite Today 04-30-09] France Telecom‘s earnings fell 4.4 percent due to costs associated with buying programming for its new television services in France, the company announced in its first-quarter financial […]