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Internet protocol television (IPTV) is a market beginning to take off. In the last two years, some of the biggest telcos around the globe have announced aggressive plans to capture […]

Consolidation A Key Driver In Investor Interest The planned merger of satellite radio operators Sirius and XM is the kind of consolidation that private investors want to see more of, […]

Bell ExpressVu, the Canadian DTH operator, is hoping it can maintain the pace in the Canadian digital TV market by bringing a number of potential new services to its customers. […]

Flexibility is the key to remaining viable in a changing market for video technologies, agreed a panel of experts speaking at the March 13 meeting of the Society of Satellite […]

In a regular look at how satellite pay-TV operators are performing in Europe, Satellite News examines the most recent results of Europe’s leading DTH players, all of whom have announced […]

Premiere, the German pay-TV operator, has created a new subsidiary, Premiere Sky, which will launch an eponymous programming package via satellite. Premiere Sky will hit the German market in September […]

Telesat Canada reported profits rose 15 percent while revenues advanced 1 percent last year. Telesat Canada, a wholly owned subsidiary of BCE Inc., posted consolidated operating revenue of $479.0 million […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] delivered the 500th Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missile seeker to Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT], the PAC-3 prime contractor. The seeker enables the weapon system to detect […]

International Space Station crew members tested their hand-eye coordination to see whether space degrades eye-hand coordination, and to see whether astronauts exposure to cosmic radiation impairs their central nervous systems, […]

Orbital Express Spacecraft Servicing Vehicle Launched The Orbital Express spacecraft launched at night from space launch complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., The Boeing Co. [BA] announced. […]

The Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite communications asset completed critical design reviews (CDRs) for all segments of the ground system as well as terminal waveform software, General Dynamics Corp. […]

Lisa Marie Nowak, facing criminal charges in Florida, last week was dismissed as an astronaut, NASA announced. A Navy captain, Nowak will be given an assignment in the Navy, pending […]

China may procure an aircraft carrier to go with its military buildup of destroyers and four new types of submarines, cutting-edge aircraft and hundreds of missiles. Rep. J. Randy Forbes […]

Launch users such as satellite industry participants are invited to a Department of Defense (DOD) industry day for a briefing April 5 in California on the United Launch Alliance (ULA) […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] unveiled two new missiles, the DAGR and P44, developed with company funding leveraging existing technologies to fill battlefield needs. The Direct Attack Guided Rocket, DAGR, is […]

U.S. ballistic missile defense systems likely would work to knock down any incoming enemy ballistic missiles, industry briefers said today. The Boeing Co. [BA] had a great year in its […]

Just a day before a congressional subcommittee was to meet and possibly issue subpoenas in a NASA Inspector General controversy, the lawmakers’ session was canceled because the Bush administration agreed […]

The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system completed a radar data collection flight test last week, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) reported. A short range target missile […]

NASA set a requirements baseline for the Orion crew exploration vehicle, meaning the future spacecraft completed its system requirements review, NASA reported. The space agency last year gave Lockheed Martin […]

NASA has been fiscally eviscerated, so that even when science and research programs are robbed of vital funds to finance manned space exploration programs and their hardware, those latter programs […]

Tandberg, Ericsson Tandberg TV’s board has extended a unanimous recommendation to shareholders that they accept Ericsson’s buyout offer, Tandberg announced March 7. Ericsson made an unsolicited offer Feb. 26 to […]

The Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) ballistic missile defense (BMD) system meets acceleration requirements of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), but funding shortages are slowing development of the KEI land-mobile version. […]

The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) is concerned that the Department of Defense (DOD) might implement guidance on controlling exports of sensitive defense-related technology items that might conflict with existing State […]

NASA gave Colsa Corp. a contract worth up to $49 million if all options are exercised. Colsa, of Huntsville, Ala., will provide configuration and data management services for the NASA […]

The Army gave Raytheon Co. [RTN] an $18 million operation and maintenance support contract to provide Kuwait with Patriot system technical assistance. Separately, Raytheon received a five-year, nearly $170 million […]

The Missile Defense Agency gave Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] a $979.2 million change to an existing cost-plus-award-fee contract, with the added funds paying for continued work on the Aegis ballistic […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] is the leading candidate to build ballistic missile defense (BMD) interceptors that would be installed in Poland, according to media reports quoting Air Force Lt. Gen. […]

Hughes Network Systems, LLC awarded a contract to Arianespace to launch its next-generation Spaceway 3 satellite. The Ariane 5 heavy launcher will boost the satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit […]