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Foam May Have Ripped Gash In Orbiter Vehicle Space Shuttle Endeavour suffered damage, a gash more than an inch long plus perhaps as many as four other hits, in heat […]

Intelsat Reports Quarterly Revenues of $543 Million In a second-quarter 2007 earnings report, fixed satellite services provider Intelsat Ltd. claimed revenue of $543.2 million and a net loss of $31.7 […]

Loral Space & Communications saw revenues increase by 17 percent in the second quarter, and 22 percent for the first half of the year, the company announced Aug. 8. For […]

In a case stemming from more than a dozen years ago, Semtek International Inc. is proceeding against various Russian entities to collect a $381 million civil judgment awarded by a […]

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) commissioned a new $44.4 million, 240,000-square-foot building at the von Braun Complex in Redstone Arsenal at Huntsville, Ala. Some 2,500 people will move to the […]

Boeing, Lockheed Submit Rival Proposals To Compete For TSAT As we reported last week, two rival teams, headed by The Boeing Co. [BA] and a Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT]/Northrop Grumman […]

Lander Spacecraft Streaks On Mission To Arctic Region Of Mars The Phoenix spacecraft lifted off at 5:22 a.m. ET Saturday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., on a 422 […]

NASA selected four proposals focusing on astrophysics priorities in lunar science to facilitate an exploration program. Those proposed studies would help develop new opportunities to conduct important science investigations during […]

The plucky Mars rover vehicles still are clinging to life amidst a bitterly blinding dust storm on the red planet, but their health is touch-and-go. Even if the rovers take […]

Peering down at Earth from an orbit hundreds of miles high reveals a planet where there are no visible national boundaries, no identifiable strongholds or clearly-seen bitterly contested bits of […]

The launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour on its STS-118 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has been delayed a day to 6:36 p.m. ET Wednesday, so crews will have […]

Admiral Sees Iran As “Aggressive, Destabilizing;” He Backs European BMD The United States needs a ballistic missile defense (BMD) shield to guard against attacks involving missiles tipped with weapons of […]

Boeing Names Vice President Of Network And Space Systems Boeing Co. has appointed Jeff Trauberman vice president of business development for its Network and Space Systems. Trauberman, who has been […]

ND SatCom Wins Polish Deal ND SatCom will supply Earth stations for one of the largest direct-to-home operators in Eastern Europe. Poland’s Canal+ Cyfrowy awarded ND SatCom a contract to […]

Global Energy, RAMTelecom To Provide Wireless Broadband For Remote Sites Global Energy Services Ltd. will provide a communications network for an unidentified North American oil and gas exploration and production […]

ST Electronics Introduces C-Band VSAT Antenna ST Electronics has rolled out its Agilis 1.2-meter stabilized C-band VSAT antenna for smaller vessels. The antenna provides transmission speeds of up to 2 […]

An explosion ripped a remote area of the Mojave, Calif., installation of Scaled Composites, the firm that built the pioneering Space Ship One, according to wire reports. The blast last […]

Sparkling Space Shuttle Endeavour Set To Launch Aug. 7, Phoenix On Friday Space Shuttle Endeavour received an enthusiastic thumbs-up during a pre-flight readiness review, with NASA officials giving the spaceship […]

The NASA budget plan is far short of adequate funds in many areas for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2008, and there are concerns for the future of manned […]

Sensors for the Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) passed tests, prime contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC], the payload subcontractor, tested the sensors for more than three […]

Sabotage was found in two computer gear components made for the International Space Station, and separately, a study committee heard allegations that astronauts were intoxicated before scheduled flights but whistleblowers […]

Lawmakers Vote To Cut $139 Million From European BMD The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) gave The Boeing Co. [BA] a sole-source contract worth up to $80 million to conduct activation […]

ABL Scores Again In Further Testing The Airborne Laser (ABL) ballistic missile defense (BMD) system had a great week in which the House Appropriations Committee (HAC) wiped away the threat […]

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin named Michael Ryschkewitsch as chief engineer. He succeeds Christopher Scolese, whom Griffin selected as associate administrator. (Please see Space & Missile Defense Report, Monday, July 16, […]

The International Space Station (ISS) tested a new U.S. oxygen generating system capable of supporting a larger ISS crew, NASA announced. That system, tested between July 11 and 14, will […]

By Michael Sirak The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) this week will start the process of moving its nascent F6 satellite program forward by hosting an unclassified industry day […]

Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Snares $1.2 Billion NASA Pact For Ares NASA gave Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Inc. a $1.2 billion sole source contract for work on the upper stage […]