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The United States must deploy a defense against enemy ballistic missiles, because one cannot simply assume that no rogue state or terrorist group would ever fire a nuclear- tipped missile […]

Test To Be Reset For Summer; Congress Still Mulls European Site Just as Congress is weighing whether to cut funding for a Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) site in Europe, the […]

North Korea fired several missiles from both its east and west coasts, according to NHK Online Daily News in Japan. The report said Japanese officials termed the weapons short-range missiles, […]

Aegis, PAC-3, THAAD Gain The Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) cut the Airborne Laser (ABL) ballistic missile defense (BMD) program and reduced funding for formation of a Ground-based Midcourse Defense […]

China launched a remote-sensing satellite named Yaogan-2 on May 25 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, according to the state-run newspaper Xinhua. The satellite, launched by a […]

There was certainly plenty of give-and-take, even if no consensus as to where the market was going. But the disparity of opinion was definitive about one thing, at least: When […]

Bahrain Telecommunications Co. (Batelco) believes satellite technology will be a vital element in its growth strategy as it looks to become a bigger player across the Middle East. The Bahrain-based […]

NASA needs a $1.4 billion increase in financial support or it will be sorely underfunded in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2008, leading contractors stated. As described by sister […]

BSkyB BSkyB‘s acquisition of a 17.9 percent stake in ITV will be investigated by the U.K. Department of Trade and Industry. Alistair Darling, the secretary of state for Trade and […]

NASA gave Pride Industries a contract worth up to $36 million for facilities maintenance. The company, of Roseville, Calif., is to provide facilities support and maintenance operations at Dryden Flight […]

By Jen DiMascio and Dave Ahearn The House approved a bill to fund military and missile defense operations in fiscal year 2008 that the president is threatening to veto. In […]

By Jen DiMascio The Pentagon is planning to move toward a competition for the Joint Air to Ground Missile (JAGM), a follow-on program to the Joint Common Missile (JCM), within […]

BAE Systems formed a team of contractors to help it win an avionics contract for avionics in the next-generation Ares I crew launch rocket. The Orion crew exploration vehicle to […]

Two Trident Missiles Launched During Test In Atlantic Two Trident II D-5 Fleet Ballistic Missiles were fired in a Navy test in the Atlantic Range, Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] announced. […]

NASA gave General Dynamics Corp. [GD] a contract for a Landsat Data Continuity Mission spacecraft accommodation program. In the $600,000, four-month assignment, General Dynamics will identify a spacecraft design and […]

China is developing an anti-ship ballistic missile to attack U.S. aircraft carriers during any Chinese invasion of Taiwan, according to the Sankei Shimbun, a newspaper in Japan. While China has […]

Terrorists have fired more than 60 Qassam rockets into Israel in the past week, wounding a mother and her four-year-old child and injuring dozens of other civilians, according to the […]

By Jen DiMascio Stressing national security threats around the globe, a number of House Republicans are pushing strongly to restore money cut from the Missile Defense Agency budget in the […]

Russian defense figures have said Russia might preemptively strike any European ballistic missile defense (BMD) interceptors before they can be launched, if such a BMD silos facility is constructed in […]

A new think tank/lobbying group, the American Security Project (ASP), was launched last week with a goal of enlightening the public in plain terms about problems facing the nation. The […]

Alcatel-Lucent [ALU] announced it received a total $460 million deal to provide mobile communications improvements for communications companies with assets in China. First, Alcatel received a $120 million pact for […]

Funds Cuts Could Delay ABL For Years If Congress mandates elaborate testing and studies of a ballistic missile defense (BMD) system before it is deployed, that could delay formation of […]

Atlantis is likely to launch on schedule at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) June 8, or within the window of June 8 to some point in July, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin […]

NASA needs a $1.4 billion increase in financial support or it will be sorely underfunded in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2008, leading contractors stated. Almost two dozen aerospace […]

Shin Satellite has continued to struggle with its IPStar strategy, according to the company’s first quarter numbers released May 14. The satellite operator reported about 75,000 IPStar customers after adding […]

Intelsat Intelsat Ltd. reported revenue growth of 85 percent in the first quarter of 2007 but posted a loss of $115.1 million due to the acquisition of PanAmSat, Intelsat announced […]

BT is confident that satellite services and technology will play a pivotal role as it looks to grow its telecoms business in Latin America. The operator recently acquired Comsat International, […]

French scientists are using images from the European Space Agency‘s (ESA) Envisat satellite to learn lessons about the origin and movement of waves which reached heights of up to 36 […]

Dear [Editor]: While I was pleased to see coverage of our first quarter results in Satellite News on May 14th, 2007, I was somewhat surprised to read the following in […]