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Atlantic Canada’s Aliant will launch a high-speed Internet satellite service to customers without access to terrestrial services, the company announced Aug. 2. Aliant partnered with Telesat Canada to provide the […]

SES Astra signed some key channel contracts in Germany ahead of the launch of its new digital platform, scheduled for the first half of 2007. SES signed deals with the […]

Sirius Satellite Radio now expects to finish 2006 with 6.3 million subscribers after adding more than 600,000 in the second quarter, the company announced Aug. 1. The company previously forecast […]

Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. announced July 31 it divided its defense operations organization unit into two separate business units. National Defense Solutions will be led by Fred Doyle and […]

MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) received a contract from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to study the development of a joint Canadian-Italian hyperspectral satellite, the company announced July 31. […]

Northrop Grumman Corp. announced July 31 it completed range tests for its downlink phased array antenna for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency military satellite communications payload. The antennas will send […]

Boeing, in cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratories, demonstrated how its Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) could link one satellite to another using a laser beam in […]

The U.S. Air Force awarded Harris Corp. a six-month, $1 million contract to complete a concept development study to incorporate the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) environmental satellite […]

Geoeye announced Aug. 1 the resignation of Timothy Puckorius, the company’s senior vice president of international sales and marketing. Puckorius left “to pursue other opportunities” but will continue to be […]

NASA selected Lockheed Martin‘s Atlas 5 rocket to launch the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) mission in 2008, the organizations announced July 30. The mission which also will carry a secondary […]

Globecast signed a deal with one of Korea’s largest broadcasters, Korean Broadcasting Systems (KBS) to broadcast the channel KBS World into the Middle East. Under a distribution partnership between Globecast, […]

Com Dev International Ltd. won a contract to design and build equipment for an unnamed European military communications satellite program. The company will work on the equipment throughout the next […]

The U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center awarded Tampa Microwave an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract, to supply satellite simulators for training and testing satellite terminals, Tampa Microwave announced […]

Mitsubishi Motors North America will offer Sirius Satellite Radio as a standard feature or factory option on four of its 2007 models beginning this fall and all of its 2008 […]

The South African government announced July 27 it approved the creation of the South African Space Agency, which will manage and execute the country’s national space science and technology programs. […]

Conexant Systems Inc. announced July 31 that sales of its DVB-S2 satellite set-top box demodulator and forward error correction decoder exceeded 1 million units. The decoder helps operators deliver content […]

Near Earth LLC added three members to its advisory board and one member to its investment banking team, the company announced July 29. Christopher Baugh, Robert Mancini and Bruce Wendt […]

Technology Delta Wave Unveils Tracking System Delta Wave Communications Inc. introduced a GPS-based asset tracking system. Rigtrac is installed onboard a truck and uses GPS coordinates to monitor the movement […]

By Owen D. Kurtin This month we examine the net neutrality, franchise relief and media concentration debates. Anyone who thinks the satellite industry does not have a dog in this […]

By Gordon Feller The Russian economy is expected to continue its sustained and steady growth rate in 2006. When the final tally is in at the end of this year, […]

By Jason Bates VSAT systems have established themselves as a technology ideally suited to corporate networking, enabling a new tier of users to take advantage of the enhanced flexibility the […]

By Peter J. Brown As we ease into the second half of 2006, the United States rapidly is approaching an impressive milestone with respect to broadband service provision. Exactly when […]

By Gerry Oberst In a June report, the European Commission reported that the Galileo satellite navigation program is the largest pan-European industrial project ever. European scientists and industry have been […]

By Nick Mitsis Nearly a year in the making, Intelsat Ltd. announced the closing of its merger with Panamsat Holding Corp. July 3. The deal expands Intelsat’s fleet to 51 […]

Yet another example of uses for satellites came as NASA released images of clouds and moisture viewed by the newly orbiting CALIPSO, along with pictures of an exploding volcano and […]

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, has 10 launches on its manifest, according to the company. Late this year, SpaceX will use the Falcon 1 rocket in a launch for […]

Myriad launches are keeping launch pads busy, according to announcements: No sooner than Aug. 20, NASA will launch the STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory) spacecraft from Cape Canaveral using a […]

Starsem reported that a Soyuz launch vehicle carried a satellite into space after lifting off earlier this month. This was the 1,711th flight of a Soyuz vehicle, according to Starsem. […]

Space Shuttle Atlantis is slated to roll out today from the vehicle assembly building for a four-mile journey to Launch Pad 39-B, NASA announced. The fully assembled space shuttle vehicle, […]