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China last week shot down one of its own satellites, creating a vast lethal cloud of debris parts that might endanger other satellites, while eliciting condemnation from the United States […]

More money is needed for defense programs than the present federal top line budget will provide, and that need should dictate raising more revenues in taxes, the new chairman of […]

President Bush recently signed an Executive Order (EO) establishing the nation’s first Aeronautics Research and Development Policy. That EO was accompanied by release of a supporting policy document developed by […]

The Navy gave Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] a $654.9 million contract to for system support for Trident II D5 fleet ballistic missiles in the current fiscal year 2007 ending Sept. […]

General Dynamics Corp. [GD] received a $424.5 million contract from the Spanish Army for Long Range (LR) SPIKE Missile Systems. General Dynamics Santa Barbara Sistemas, the prime contractor, has an […]

The Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) system successfully passed a system critical design review (CDR) as the Air Force authorized the program to proceed toward a December 2008 launch, The […]

Arianspace received the Skynet 5A military communications satellite for the first Ariane 5 launch mission this year, the company announced. The satellite arrived in French Guiana this week, with the […]

New satellite operator ProtoStar has chosen Arianespace to launch the DTH satellite ProtoStar I. Arianespace CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall announced the award during his annual January press conference, saying that […]

NASA chose for concept study development two proposals for future robotic missions to Mars. These missions would increase understanding of Mars’ atmosphere, climate and potential habitability in greater detail than […]

The Airborne Laser (ABL) ballistic missile defense (BMD) system has achieved “tremendous success” in the past year, Air Force Lt. Gen. Henry “Trey” Obering, director of the Missile Defense Agency […]

NASA can’t expect any huge funding increases, and instead will have to find areas to cut and ways to perform the space mission with more intelligence and efficiency, NASA Administrator […]

Sen. Levin Urges Slowing Major BMD Programs, While Stressing Others Congress should slow and stretch out programs to create a multi-layered ballistic missile defense (BMD) shield, while emphasizing instead programs […]

The Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] a contract in the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) engines program. That contract, covering 22 months, calls for Northrop to continue the full-rate […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] late last year completed an Air Force review of the Global Positioning System (GPS) Space Segment III, and the company separately gained a roughly $50 million […]

The Missile Defense Agency gave Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] a $619 million contract to begin production of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) ballistic missile defense (BMD) weapon system, […]

Discovery Mission Hits A Holiday Home Run Space Shuttle Discovery landed safely at Kennedy Space Center without any major damage after a winning STS-116 mission to the International Space Station […]

A constellation of Space Radar satellites with capabilities such as spotting moving targets on the ground would be technologically feasible by 2015, and likely would cost $25 billion to $90 […]

The year 2006 was lustrous for both the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and NASA, as programs moved ahead sharply and many if not all woes were blasted into the past. […]

As a Democratic majority last week took command of both houses of Congress, a key question is whether those lawmakers will provide solid financial support for space and missile defense […]

BCE, LORL The Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) businesses of Loral Space & Communications Inc. and Telesat Canada will be combined under a new Canadian company that will become the fourth […]

It has been another eventful year in the satellite industry. Who would have thought at the start of 2006 that we would have seen a high-profile link-up between traditional rivals […]

As with any year, 2006 will be defined by beginnings and ends. As they apply to the satellite industry, and while there is much yet to be ascertained about what […]

NDS, which supplies conditional access and middleware solutions to satellite pay-TV operators, has completed its acquisition of Jungo Ltd., NDS announced. NDS declared in December that it had reached agreement […]

Measat Satellite Systems has taken control of the Measat-3 satellite following deployment of the satellite’s reflectors and solar arrays, the company announced Dec. 28. Measat’s Teleport and Broadcast Centre in […]

Audiovox Corp. unveiled its first portable XM Satellite Radio product, the company announced. The X2G100B Portable Satellite Radio and MP3 Player allows the user to listen to live XM broadcasts, […]

TeleCommunication Systems Inc. (TCS) has received a U.S. government patent for technology that improves the ability of GPS to provide position information to users surrounded by geographic constraints such as […]

With demand for satellite services growing, Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. would like to see better performance from its Spacenet Inc. services group. To accomplish this, Gilat has rebuilt Spacenet’s executive […]

Globalstar Unveils Smaller, Lighter Handsets Globalstar Inc. introduced its next-generation satellite telephone handset. The GSP-1700, manufactured by Qualcomm, weighs about 7.1 ounces — about half the weight of the Globalstar’s […]