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Mobile Satellite Ventures (MSV) named Steve Soroka vice president of enterprise operations, the Reston, Va.-based company announced April 23. Soroka will be responsible for overall direction and management of MSV’s...

A Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) spacecraft scheduled to be placed into orbit in April 2008 has completed thermal vacuum tests at Lockheed Martin’s Sunnyvale, Calif., facility, the U.S. Air...

Orbital Sciences Corp. posted first quarter revenues of $228.2 million, up 19 percent from revenues of $192.2 million in the same period a year ago, the company announced April 19....

China’s ocean monitoring satellite, Ocean-1B, has completed on-orbit testing, Xinhua reported April 20. The satellite, which monitors the color and temperature of the ocean, was placed into orbit April 11...

A payload of 14 satellites was delivered on April 17 in the first launch of a Dnepr rocket since a July 2006 failure, Russian officials reported. Egyptian, Saudi and U.S....

Symmetricom Inc., a provider of precise-time and frequency technologies to accelerate deployment and enable management of next-generation networks, rolled out its 9900 series of hybrid space crystal oscillators comprised of...

GlobeCast successfully provided the first-ever live, high-definition (HD) contribution service from Saint Peter’s Square to Centro Televisivo Vaticano (CTV), the official television station of the Vatican, GlobeCast announced April 19....

Homeland Integrated Security Systems Inc. (HISC) has received final regulatory approvals on its patent-pending Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) Cyber Tracker, HISC announced April 19. Regulatory approvals were required...

Unlimi-Tech Software Inc. has announced its introduction of FileCatalyst 2.0 to offer broadcasters, carriers, telecoms, post-production houses and digital delivery or system integration companies a software-based product to provide maximum...

Globalstar Inc. is anticipating a May 21 launch window for the first of its four first-generation ground spare satellites to be lofted, the company announced April 18. The four satellites,...