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S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia has partnered with Intersputnik International Organization to jointly promote satellite networks to government and private organizations, the companies announced June 20. The networks […]

Maps Geosystems will be the sole distributor of Digitalglobe satellite imagery in the Middle East and sub-Saharan region of Africa, Digitalglobe announced June 19. Maps, headquartered in Sharjah, United Arab […]

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. will build a new ground station for downloading Radarsat data in Italy, the company announced June 20. The station, dubbed Marsec, will join MacDonald Dettwiler’s […]

Telenor Satellite Services will add a new Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) satellite terminal to its portfolio, Telenor announced June 20. The Wideye Sabre 1, developed by Addvalue Communications Pte […]

Skylife, the Korean satellite pay-TV operator, has announced a deal with Rainbow HD Holdings to bring high-definition (HD) programming to Korea. According to the terms of the agreement, Rainbow HD […]

Sea Launch lofted Panamsat‘s Galaxy 16 satellite into orbit, the company announced June 18. The Zenit-3SL rocket lifted off from Sea Launch’s floating platform at the equator at 3:50 a.m. […]

Garmin will be corporate sponsor and an official supplier of GPS units to the USA Triathlon National Teams Program, USA Triathlon announced June 16. Garmin will provide Edge 305HR+Speed/Cadence Sensor […]

Delta Wave Communications Inc. introduced June 17 a GPS-based asset tracking system. Rigtrac is installed onboard a truck and uses GPS coordinates to monitor the movement of the vehicle, sending […]

Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) names Mike Yglesias vice president of RF engineering, the company announced. He will be in charge of the overall design segment of the MSV terrestrial radio […]

A Russian Proton rocket placed the Kazsat satellite into orbit June 18 for the government of Kazakhstan, according to Russian press reports. The satellite, built by Russia’s Khrunichev, carries 12 […]

NASA selected Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] to provide an Atlas V rocket to launch the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) in 2009. The Atlas V 541 will lift off from Cape […]

The Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) is slated for launch July 22, according to NASA. STEREO blastoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., is slated for 3:11 to 3:13 […]

France and India are celebrating 25 years of collaboration on space programs at events in Paris. The celebration will include Arianspace, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), and the French […]

A Soyuz launch vehicle lifted from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to place a Resurs-DK remote sensing spacecraft in orbit. It was the 1,709th launch of a Soyuz vehicle, according […]

The Space Shuttle Discovery will launch on July 1 despite concerns of safety and engineering officials that further redesign work should be performed before the space commuter goes aloft again, […]

Kazakhstan launched its first satellite, KazSat 1, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the eastern part of the nation, according to news services. The satellite will be used for TV signals […]

Raytheon Co. [RTN], Konigsberg Defense [KGBC.OB] and Ericsson [ERICY] will seek a contract that Estonia will award for an air defense missile system, Raytheon announced. They will seek the contract […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] finished a four-year program to integrate its precision-strike Hellfire II missile system, including the M299 “smart launcher,” with its first international helicopter launch platform, Eurocopter’s Tiger […]

Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] and Raytheon Co. [RTN] separately received Air Force contracts for the Paveway laser guided bomb program. Lockheed gained a $32.7 million contract to deliver Paveway II […]

President Bush signed into law a supplemental appropriations bill that provides funding for various space- and missile-related programs in the current fiscal 2006 that ends Sept. 30. For example, the […]

U.S. negotiators must focus on persuading North Korea to surrender any capabilities to fire nuclear-tipped missiles toward North America, rather than becoming enmeshed in other issues such as counterfeiting of […]

Even as NASA faces a mass exodus of top-talent employees reaching retirement age, it has bought out 1,138 employees in the past four years, raising the specter of a workforce […]

The U.S. government will fund vastly expensive NASA missions to the moon, Mars and beyond in coming decades, even though federal finances are constrained by daunting deficits, an industry leader […]

Cisco has unveiled a module that allows Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd.‘s to provide customers satellites services via Cisco routers, the companies announced June 12. Gilat hopes the deal will introduce […]

ETL.PA Eutelsat‘s announcement that it signed a facilities agreement for a 1.9 billion euro ($2.4 billion) loan is "positive news," Sarah Simon, a media equity analyst at Morgan Stanley, said […]

The 2006 first quarter proved to be a tough one for European satellite pay-TV operators in terms of trying to grow their subscriber bases. Several of the operators have lost […]

Healing Hands International (HHI), a non-profit humanitarian organization, plans to use satellite imagery from Digitalglobe for planning and visualization efforts surrounding agricultural development and disaster relief missions in Africa and […]

Less than a year ago, the final report of NASA‘s sweeping Exploration Systems Architecture study squashed the idea of using technology developed under the U.S. Air Force’s Evolved Expendable Launch […]

Echostar Communications Corp. and DirecTV Inc. will market satellite broadband Internet service offered by Wildblue Communications Inc., the companies announced June 9. As part of the agreements, Wildblue will be […]