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[11-08-07 – Satellite Today] C-Com Satellite Systems Inc. and Mexican reseller Jaba Networks are deploying a number of its iNetVu Mobile satellite antennas to assist medical authorities with the flood […]

[11-08-07 – Satellite Today] Inmarsat-sponsored aid agency Télécoms San Frontières (TSF) is ready to use satellite technology to help in flood hit Mexico, the agency announced Nov. 7. With more […]

[11-08-07 – Satellite Today] Telenor Satellite Broadcasting (TSB) said Nov. 8 that its Thor 5 satellite is likely to be launched Feb. 7. Thor 5 is Telenor’s first satellite in […]

[11-07-07 – Satellite Today]  Northrup Grumman Corp. has named John R. Landon its new vice president of missiles, technology and space programs, the company announced Nov. 7.     Landon joined […]

[11-07-07 – Satellite Today] Premiere, the German pay-TV operator, saw strong subscriber growth in the three months to the end of September. This was one of the highlights of its […]

[11-07-07 – Satellite Today]  DirecTV Group Inc. has increased third quarter revenues 18 percent compared to the third quarter of 2006, the company announced Nov. 7.     The company reported […]

[11-07-07 – Satellite Today] Bechtel Communications has signed an agreement to provide site development and program management services for TerreStar Network’s ancillary terrestrial network, Bechtel announced Nov. 7.     Under […]

[11-07-07 – Satellite Today] NSSL, an independent service provider for satellite communications solutions, is opening a new Middle East office, the company announced Nov. 6. The service provider is looking […]

[11-07-07 – Satellite Today] QinetiQ and other members of a consortium of British firms have agreed to provide satellite images to relief agencies around the world for free, QinetiQ announced […]

[11-07-07 – Satellite Today] Norsat International Inc. has introduced a new X-band terminal, the company announced Nov. 6.     The GlobeTrekker X-Band terminal is available as a highly integrated system, […]

11-06-07 – Satellite Today]  The Skynet 5B and Star One C1 spacecraft have been fitted to their Ariane 5 launch vehicle in advance of a scheduled Nov. 9 mission, Arianespace […]

[11-06-07 – Satellite Today] Five Northrop Grumman engineers received a patent for a payload positioning boom, the company announced Nov. 6.     The boom, which attaches the payload to the […]

[11-06-07 – Satellite Today] CVG Inc. will provide a satellite-based broadband communications solution for the U.S. Coast Guard, CVG announced Nov. 6.     CVG will install a pair of Ku-band […]

[11-06-07 – Satellite Today] Boeing Co. has demonstrated its "one button” start-up U.S. ground station, which will be an essential element of its Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) offering, the […]

[11-06-07 – Satellite Today] The International Maritime Organization (IMO) has joined the No Change In C-band campaign at the World Radiocommunications Conference in Geneva, Satellite News reports.     IMO joins […]

Experts said outsiders can’t accurately assess just when a secretive Iran might develop a nuclear bomb, and also said it is unclear just when Iran might gain a workable nuclear […]

New Navy Missile Launcher Tested, So Conventional Missiles Work In Submarines The Navy is developing a new type of missile launcher that would permit using conventional missiles including Army weapons […]

Defense Secretary Gates In China To Question Chinese Military Buildup Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates is in China, where he will attempt to get Chinese leaders to explain why […]

Thermal protection heat tiles on Space Shuttles Discovery and Atlantis have been found solid in inspections, Wayne Hale, space shuttle program manager said in a NASA briefing today. Discovery, now […]

Israel To Face Threat If China Sells Advanced Fighters, Missiles, To Iran Israel will face a serious new threat if China, as rumored, sells advanced long-range Chengdu J-10 fighter aircraft […]

NASA Sorely Underfunded, Needs Far More Money: Douglass U.S. preeminence in space is fading because NASA is being starved of funding it urgently requires, and that may mean some other […]

House and Senate lawmakers are considering cutting only $85 million from a $310 million funding request by President Bush for the planned European Ground-based Midcourse missile Defense (GMD) program, a […]

Space Shuttle Discovery is poised to wrap up the long 15-day STS-120 mission with a landing just after 1 p.m. ET Wednesday, capping a challenging spacewalk in which physician- astronaut […]

[11-5-07 – Satellite Today]  Space Micro Inc. and DR Technologies Inc. have formed a partnership to develop radiation-hardened structures for the military and space market, Space Micro announced Nov. 2. […]

[11-5-07 – Satellite Today] The GPS Block 2R satellite launched Oct. 17 has been declared fully operational following checkout by the U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin, the company announced […]

[11-5-07 – Satellite Today]  Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) has officially broken ground to expand Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), which will serve as the primary launch site for SpaceX’s […]

[11-5-07 – Satellite Today] Xtar LLC., a joint venture between Loral Space and Communication and Hisdesat, has received a contract from the U.S. General Services Administration to provide information technology […]

[11-5-07 – Satellite Today]  DataPath Inc. has been awarded $2.9 million to upgrade DataPath terminals used in the U.S. Marine Corps Support Wide Area Network (SWAN) program, the company announced […]

[11-5-07 – Satellite Today]  Sat-Ge will be providing satellite capacity for Indonesian telecommunications operator PT Telcom, Sat-Ge announced Nov. 1.     PT Telcom will use multiple transponders on the GE-23 […]

[11-02-07 – Satellite Today]  Globalcom Satellite Communications has introduced a new satellite messenger with a satellite GPS personal locator, the company announced Nov. 1.     The Spot Satellite Messenger weighs […]