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NASA Administrator Michael Griffin visited China, meeting with leaders of the Chinese space program and others. Griffin said China has impressive capabilities in space programs, adding that Chinese space personnel […]

The launch of a satellite on the Soyuz vehicle, which was to have lifted off Saturday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, has been postponed for several days, according to Starsem. Cause […]

NASA ground crews discovered a hole in the Space Shuttle Atlantis right-hand payload bay door radiator. The hole, about a tenth of an inch in diameter, apparently resulted from something […]

Northrop Grumman Corp. [NOC] completed acoustic testing on the payload for the first Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO) satellite, the company announced. Northrop will provide the payload to […]

North Korea announced it detonated a nuclear weapon, drawing strong protest from the United States, with President Bush vowing “an immediate response by the United Nations Security Council.” But he […]

The Stennis Space Center marked the passing of an era, an end of one long story in the U.S. space program and anticipation of a new chapter. At the largest […]

NASA selected Science Systems and Applications, Inc. of Lanham, Md., to provide science, technology and research support services to the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va. The cost plus […]

Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) received a NASA contract worth up to $750 million, NASA announced. The five-year contract with APL, of Laurel, Md., with the possibility of […]

Some nations might be concerned that any conventional-warhead missile fired from a U.S. Navy submarine might actually be a nuclear device that could blind radars in those nations, analysts said. […]

The Boeing Co. [BA] and Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] won unanimous 5-0 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) permission to form a joint space launch alliance, Boeing, Lockheed and the FTC announced. […]

NASA gave a joint venture of The Boeing Co. [BA] and Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] a $1.1 billion cost reimbursement pact to run space shuttle program operations. The letter contract […]

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites-R series (GOES-R), which already has seen its price tag soar more than $5 billion, stands in danger of seeing further cost increases, missed schedules and […]

BA $70 Million To End Contract Boeing Co. will pay SES Americom $70 million as part of the shutdown of the Connexion By Boeing inflight Internet service, SES Global announced […]

The competition for satellite pay-TV operators is getting more intense around the globe, with traditional rival cable now joined by a growing number of telcos eager to gain a slice […]

Microsoft Corp. and Hughes announced Sept. 28 a plan to roll out 5,000 broadband-enabled kiosks across India. The two companies plan to deploy information and communications-technology kiosks in an estimated […]

NFL fans in Washington and Miami are getting their games on more than ever through a pilot program between Kangaroo TV and DirecTV. Using Kangaroo TV’s handheld unit with a […]

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Oct. 3 granted anti-trust clearance to the United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint venture that will combine the government launch operations of Boeing Co. […]

Comtech EF Data Corp., received a $1 million order for satellite communications equipment to support a satellite-based cellular backhaul network in Southeast Asia. Included in the order are bandwidth-efficient satellite […]

Globecomm Systems Inc. announced Oct. 5 that its wholly owned subsidiary, Globecomm Network Services Corporation (GNSC), has been awarded service-contract extensions from Afghan Telecom Corp. valued at $2.1 million. Afghan […]

Globecast has signed a content deal with Verizon enabling the North American telco to offer a variety channels to customers in the United States. Globecast will supply Globecast WorldTV international […]

Current TV, headed by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, has signed with BSkyB to launch a version of its viewer-created TV channel in the United Kingdom and Ireland. The […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced Oct. 5 that the upper composite of Vega, its new small launch vehicle, passed vibration tests at ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre. […]

Global Scan Technologies (GST), a company providing remote sensing and GIS technologies in the Middle East, signed an agreement with Antrix Corp. Ltd. to distribute imagery collected by India’s Cartosat-1 […]

The European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat) delayed the launch of its Metop satellite to Oct. 17. The announcement came three days after a mechanical incident at […]

Thuraya Satellite Telecommunications Co. has enhanced its high-speed data product Thuraya DSL to increase the speed of the offering. The terminal’s preliminary design was approved in May, and Thuraya plans […]

Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) announced Oct. 5 that it will close its civil space operation in Goleta, Calif. — also known as Santa Barbara Remote Sensing (SBRS) – […]

Two scientists who helped create the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2006, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Oct. 3. […]

Eagle Broadband Inc.’s new super headend facility at Newcom International’s Florida teleport is operational, Eagle announced Oct. 3. The headend gives Eagle the ability to collect and digitize TV content […]

Decarta, a supplier of software platforms and services for the location-based services industry, and Globexplorer, a provider of a commercial library of aerial photos, satellite imagery and geographic maps, have […]

Russia and India will share use of Glonass, a 24-satellite navigational and global positioning system, the Russian Federal Space Agency announced Oct. 4. Glonass is designed for military and civilian […]