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German public broadcaster ARD had to delay its widely publicised change of transponders on the Astra satellite system (19.2 degrees East) because of technical problems. Originally scheduled for April 6,...

US DBS operator Echostar has taken a stake in Israel-based Gilat’s Internet via satellite spin-off Gilat-To-Home Inc, which plans to provide high speed two-way satellite Internet connections to residential customers....

Globalstar, the MSS operator hoping to avoid the fate of fellow LEO system Iridium, has demonstrated transmission of Internet data over its system at the ITU America Show in Rio...

Firouz Naderi is the new manager of the recently established Mars Program Office at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. NASA has suffered the high- profile failure of several...

TRW Inc. [TRW] has delivered to Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT] the low data rate payload communications package for the sixth and last satellite in the Defense Department’s ultra-secure Milstar system....

Eutelsat’s newest satellite, SESAT (for Siberia Europe Satellite), has been positioned on the launch pad for its scheduled launch on the night of April 17. SESAT is an 18-transponder, Ku-band...

Raytheon Co. [RTN] announced that the Navy has exercised first-year options worth some $54.4 million for satellite communications terminals for surface ships, submarines and shore stations. If the service exercises...

The results of the second annual America’s SpacePoll are in and the winners are space exploration, NASA, satellite communications and space science and research initiatives. Even though pioneering space efforts...

In hopes of building its secondary satellite and payload business, Space Operations International LLC (SOI) has signed a memorandum of agreement with Lockheed Martin Corp. [LMT]. The companies plan to...

By Robert N. Wold Those birds of paradise called geostationary satellites, invisible to the naked eye as they perch on the equatorial ring that circles the globe, were in especially...