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[Satellite Today 10-16-08] Norsat International Inc. has established a WiMax business unit to address the market for satellite-enabled WiMax opportunities in emerging markets throughout Asia, Africa and South America, the […]

[Satellite Today 8-15-08] Premiere, the German pay-TV operator, has hired a slew of executives from Sky Italia, as it looks to turn around its fortunes in Germany, in the wake […]

[Satellite Today 8-15-08] Tandberg Television is introducing a new cable HD program transcoder that will enable programmers to harness the bandwidth efficiencies of MPEG-4 AVC HD and DVB-S2 (Digital Video […]

[Satellite Today 8-15-08] International Datacasting Corp. (IDC) signed cross-licensing agreements with Doremi Cinema LLC enabling the use of leading edge 3D live technology from Sensio Technologies in Doremi playback servers, […]

[Satellite Today 10-14-08] Globecomm Systems introduced a 1.2-meter X-band auto-acquisition satellite terminal as part of its Auto-Explorer system, the company announced Oct. 14. The system provides government and military customers […]

[Satellite Today 10-14-08] C-Com Satellite Systems Inc. unveiled its latest iNetVu antenna system, the iNetVu 1.2-meter flyaway, the company announced Oct. 14. The ruggedized suitcase-based system has been designed to […]

[Satellite Today 10-14-08] Norsat International Inc. has expanded its line of high stability Ku-band low noise block down-converters (LNBs), the company announced Oct. 14.     Norsat had added the HS […]

[Satellite Today 8-15-08]  Intelsat Ltd. appointed Peter Ostapiuk North American cable and emerging media regional vice president, the company announced Oct. 13. Ostapiuk replaces Tim Jackson, who now serves as […]

[Satellite Today 10-14-08] Ondas Media signed a commercial agreement with BMW Group to install satellite radio receivers in its vehicles in Europe, Ondas said Oct. 13.     The deal, which […]

[Satellite Today 10-14-08] ViaSat Inc. has been awarded a $1.5 million order to manufacture KG-200 and KG-201 In-Line Media Encryptors (IME) for the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), ViaSat announced […]

[Satellite Today 10-14-08] Thaicom’s plans in the Australian broadband market have been boosted by the news that a number of IPStar partners have been selected to be part of the […]

[Satellite Today 10-14-08] Avanti Communications signed a contract to provide broadband services to Prime Satellite Broadband (PSB), a provider of satellite broadband services in Western Europe, Avanti announced Oct. 14. […]

[Satellite Today 10-14-08] Measat Satellite Systems and Sky Channel signed an agreement for Sky Channel to use the Measat-3 satellite to broadcast horse races, the companies announced Oct. 13.     […]

[Satellite Today 10-14-08] Intelsat signed a multi-year contract with Mobil Satellite Technologies and a multi-year extension with Vista Satellite Communications Inc., Intelsat announced Oct. 14.     Mobil Satellite Technologies, a […]

NASA scientists have gone backwards to progress, finding an old Apollo spacecraft heat shield hidden away in Smithsonian Institution archives that can yield secrets for designing the next-generation Orion space […]

A full-scale model of the James Webb Space telescope today goes on display at a museum in Germany, Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] announced. The full-scale model will remain on display […]

The Laser Guided Rocket (LGR) passed a wind tunnel test, Raytheon Co. [RTN] reported. That tunnel operation produced both high fidelity flight simulations and data for developing the aerodynamic model […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] delivered the core structure including a propulsion subsystem for the first Navy Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite, the company announced today. It is the largest […]

Defense spending on weapons systems may not plummet in the next several years, despite some pundits asserting that huge federal budget deficits, an imploding economy and nosediving federal revenues mean […]

Space Systems/Loral Gains Contract To Provide Satellite For SES SES, the European satellite operator, will buy another Loral satellite. Space Systems/Loral (SS/L), a subsidiary of Loral Space & Communications [LORL] […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] completed final testing on the SES New Skies NSS-9 commercial communications satellite, the company announced. The engineering team completed pre-shipment procedures for the satellite, which will […]

Updated — October 9, 2008 – 12:50 p.m. EDT Legend: + Targeted For | *No Earlier Than (Tentative) | **To Be Determined 2008 Launches Date: Oct. 19 Mission: IBEX Launch […]

NASA still will try to launch the Mars Science Laboratory about a year from now, rather than waiting for another window two years later, even though provision of some hardware […]

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome yesterday to take a new crew to the International Space Station for a half-year stay in orbit. That crew includes Expedition 18 […]

A circular solar array for the next-generation Orion U.S. space capsule, and a flexible wing reflector array for the Inmarsat 4 F3 satellite, both deployed correctly, companies announced. In the […]

The Venus Express spacecraft that will search for life on other planets is kicking off its work by focusing on one planet that likely can support life: Earth. The European […]

But Kennedy Loss Now Seen As Less Than Earlier Estimate Of 5,000 Or More Thousands Of Space Workers To Lose Paychecks As U.S. Economy Begins Slipping Into Downturn Thousands of […]

The Department of Defense (DOD) is falling short in tracking the health of the defense supplier base, according to a new report from the nonpartisan watchdog agency, the Government Accountability […]

Neither of the major-party U.S. presidential candidates is expected to press for aggressive U.S. policies in space or the procurement of anti-satellite weapons, a new report suggests. Thus no major […]

With Space Program, China Sees Military, Economic, Political Gains; China Makes Careful But Large Moves China sees its space program as an investment, not as an unwelcome budgetary outlay, a […]