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A Republican Florida congressman lost his bid to eliminate a proposed $500 million cut in NASA funding in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2008, compared to the current fiscal […]

ABL Loses $400 Million, Euro Site $160 Million; But Rescue In Works The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) strategic forces subcommittee cut $764 million, or 8.6 percent, from the total […]

India will be one of the biggest markets for satellite pay-TV services throughout the next few years. Dish TV, backed by Zee Telefilms, already is seeing strong growth in this […]

Patrick Brant has joined SkyPort Global Communications Inc. as president and CEO, the company announced April 30. Brant most recently served as CEO and president of Loral Skynet, the satellite […]

Hispasat Hispasat recorded a profit of 24.5 million euros ($33.3 million) in 2006, more than double earnings of 9.8 million euros ($13.3 million) in 2005, the satellite operator announced May […]

India will be one of the biggest markets for satellite pay-TV services throughout the next few years. Dish TV, backed by Zee Telefilms, already is seeing strong growth in this […]

Poachers, beware: Illegal hunters are becoming the hunted through technology developed by an electrical engineer-cum-visiting scholar at the State University of New York (SUNY) College of Environmental Science and Forestry. […]

Sirius Satellite Radio reported a narrower loss in its latest quarter, signing up more subscribers than rival XM Satellite Radio in the first three months of 2007. New York-based Sirius […]

SES Global posted positive results in the 2007 first quarter that were in line with expectations, but the talk among analysts stemmed from comments by SES hinting at potential savings […]

Orbital Sciences Corp. received a contract from Intelsat to manufacture the Intelsat-15 communications satellite, Orbital announced May 1. The satellite, scheduled for launch in early 2009, will be based on […]

DirecTV Names New Executives DirecTV has promoted Derek Chang to executive vice president of content strategy and development; Dan Hartman to senior vice president of programming acquisition; and Eric Shanks […]

Alcatel Alenia Space Signs Harris Corp. For Commercial Antenna Contract Harris Corp. has been awarded a contract by Alcatel Alenia Space to supply a 12-meter S-band antenna for Eutelsat’s W2A […]

DCC Uses SkyEdge To Extend Nigerian Network DCC Satellite & Networks Ltd. is using Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.’s SkyEdge platform to expand its network in Nigeria, Gilat announced. DCC will […]

Hughes Introduces High-Speed BGAN Mobile Satellite Terminal Hughes Network Systems LLC latest generation 9250 mobile satellite terminal has been approved to operate over Inmarsat’s Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN), Hughes […]

The Army gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] a $144 million contract change to provide engineering services for the Patriot Air and Missile Defense program. This award represents the third of four […]

NASA gave Xerox Corp. a $35 million contract to supply 2,400 machines and support functions to myriad space agency centers and facilities, NASA announced. Xerox will provide multifunctional device support, […]

MDA Near Field Infrared Satellite Launched The Near Field Infrared (NFIRE) satellite for the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) was launched at 2:49 p.m. ET yesterday from the NASA Wallops Island […]

By Michael Sirak Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley has commissioned a study to reassess the vulnerability of U.S. military space systems in the wake of China’s recent […]

Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, will visit Goddard Space Flight Center on Tuesday next week. The queen will view various areas in the center, located […]

The United States should push development of the Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) ballistic missile defense (BMD) system, a military analyst said. Existing systems such as the Ground-based Missile Defense (GMD) […]

Any move by Congress to suspend funding for a ballistic missile defense program such as the Airborne Laser (ABL) would cause a multi-years delay in fielding the capability, Lt. Gen. […]

Need Proven For U.S. Missile Defense Systems With the ink barely dry on the six-party agreement aimed at halting North Korean nuclear weapons and missile development programs, a general cautioned […]

Big Win For MDA, Lockheed, Raytheon Missile Defense In a double-barreled blast, the sea-based ballistic missile system for the first time simultaneously destroyed two target missiles, a ballistic-type threat and […]

The U.S. Department of State’s rejection of the proposed privatization of Asia Satellite Telecommunications Holdings Ltd. (AsiaSat) did not come as "a complete surprise," AsiaSat CEO Peter Jackson said. According […]

Globecomm Globecomm Systems Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the GlobalSat division of Lyman Bros. Inc., Globecomm announced April 24. The purchase price is $18.4 million and […]

XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. reported revenues of $264 million in the 2007 first quarter, an increase of 27 percent over revenues of $208 million in the same period in […]

Boeing space revenues increased 4 percent to $2.9 billion in the first quarter of 2007 on increased sales of satellites and ground-based missile defense (GMD) programs, Boeing announced April 25. […]

Similar to the real-estate cliche about location, in winemaking, too, "locality is everything," says Eric Quanstrom of Appellation America. His San Francisco-based company and its Web site, http://www.AppellationAmerica.com, aim to […]

Thales Alenia Space signed its first commercial deal with a new customer, Telenor. In what ultimately proved to be a two-horse race, Thales Alenia Space beat out Orbital Sciences Corp., […]