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[Satellite Today 08-27-08] Channelot and Udcast have made the Channelot 100i available to the market, the companies announced Aug. 27.    The DVB-T/H micro-transmission station is embedded with a UDcast […]

[Satellite Today 08-27-08]  GeoEye Inc. has provided high-resolution images taken from its Ikonos satellite for integration into Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X video game from UbiSoft, GeoEye announced Aug. 26.     The […]

[Satellite Today 08-27-08]  Harmonic has appointed Ian Graham vice president of sales and support for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), the company announced Aug. 27.     Graham previously […]

[Satellite Today 08-27-08] Orbital Sciences Corp. named Frank Culbertson Jr. senior vice president and deputy general manager of the advanced programs group, and Mark Pieczynski vice president of the company’s […]

[Satellite Today 08-26-08] DataPath Inc. has been awarded a contract to continue providing field services for DataPath Deployable Ku-band Earth Terminals (DKET) at a communications hub in Iraq, the company […]

[Satellite Today 08-26-08] ITT Corp. has named Eric Webster as vice president for government and industry partnerships for its Space Systems division, the company announced Aug. 26.     Webster will […]

[Satellite Today 08-26-08] AETN All Asia Networks (AAAN) launched the History Channel HD in Hong Kong and Singapore, the company announced Aug. 26. The channel will offer a separate schedule […]

[Satellite Today 08-26-08] Pace is targeting three areas of its business to make its products more environmentally friendly, the company announced Aug. 26. Pack is “taking action to reduce our […]

[Satellite Today 08-26-08] Thrane & Thrane, a manufacturer of equipment and systems for global mobile communication based on satellite and radio technology, reported a sharp increase in revenues and profits […]

Engineers finished testing the workhorse gas generator in the J-2X engine, in the upper stage of the next-generation Ares I rocket, NASA announced. The Ares will loft the future U.S. […]

Lockheed Gains $357 Million Hellfire II Production Contract The Army gave Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] a $357 million deal to produce more Hellfire missiles, the company announced today. They will […]

Space Shuttles For Hubble Mission, Standby, Unharmed By Storm; Shuttle Atlantis Still Set For Liftoff At 1:34 A.M. ET Oct. 8 Tropical Storm Fay, despite its drenching deluge that flooded […]

Sales of ballistic missile defense systems and components have grown to make up 10 percent of the revenues in Lockheed Martin [LMT], the largest defense contractor, a senior official said […]

NASA issued a request for information, or RFI, for concepts concerning communications and navigation services that could be used on the moon. The space agency wishes to gauge interest and […]

The global market for expendable launch vehicles (ELVs), or rockets, will see an upturn to total about $48 billion over the next decade, according to a new projection from Forecast […]

The U.S. military procurement effort faces an immense disconnect between funding needs and available financing, complicated by new emerging threats such as the loss of sanctuary in space and the […]

Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, while on the International Space Station, took pictures of the war zone in Georgia, where Russian troops invaded the nation and then only partially pulled back […]

The United States needs to field laser weapons, including solid-state assets, now, not later, a new report states. Proof of the urgent need for directed-energy defenses have been provided by […]

NASA leaders announced a solution for an intense vibration, or thrust oscillation, in the Ares I rocket that will loft the next-generation U.S. space capsule Orion into orbit. The thrust […]

Rocket Veered Off Course; Range Safety Personnel Destroyed Rocket When It Reached Safety-Area Limit; Unconfirmed Report Civilian Saw Rocket Debris On Land NASA Hypersonic Experiments Were Aboard Failed Rocket, Representing […]

Rep. Franks Says Deal Resolves Concerns Of Congress; It Is Time To Fund European Defense Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski signed a deal for […]

[Satellite Today 08-25-08] A consortium of investors that entered an agreement in March to purchase Gilat Satellite Networks has informed the company that it will not close the merger transaction, […]

[Satellite Today 08-25-08] Korean Telecom Corp. has chosen Arianespace to launch Koreasat 6, the launch service provider announced Aug. 22.     Koreasat 6 will be boosted into geostationary transfer orbit […]

[Satellite Today 08-25-08] Mary Frost stepped down as CEO of GlobeCast America, the company announced Aug. 25.     Christian Pinon, chairman and CEO of GlobeCast, will serve as interim CEO […]

[Satellite Today 08-25-08] Hong Kong Satellite Communication International Ltd., Japan Digital Communications and AA Techneq have signed commercial partnerships with Thuraya, the mobile satellite company announced Aug 25.     The […]

[Satellite Today 08-25-08] WildBlue Communications has introduced an equipment lease program for new customers, the company announced Aug. 25.     Under the program, customers will no longer be required to […]

[Satellite Today 08-25-08] MTV Networks International has chosen SatLink Communications to broadcast its newly launched channel, Nickelodeon Polska, according to an Aug. 25 announcement by SatLink.     SatLink is transmitting […]

[Satellite Today 08-25-08] ND SatCom, an SES Astra company, has unveiled its new VSAT application, SkyRay Light IPS high definition for mobile video broadcasting, the company announced Aug. 25.     […]

[Satellite Today 08-22-08] Inmarsat has selected Thales Alenia Space and International Launch Services (ILS) to support an application under the European S-band Application Process (ESAP) for an award of S-band […]

[Satellite Today 08-22-08] AsiaSat CEO Peter Jackson is hoping the operator can gain good business from governments in the region. This is a key target market over the next 12 […]