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For the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the inevitable transition to an IP-based military satellite communications system has been disruptive for the military, according to DISA Principal Director, Richard Williams,...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told a luncheon at SATELLITE 2009 that the company expects to sign deals in the commercial arena for its Falcon 9 launch vehicle this year. The...

The CEOs of the four largest fixed satellite services companies will set the tone for SATELLITE 2009, as Romain Bausch, Giuliano Berretta, Dan Goldberg and David McGlade again get together...

The ability to access funding for business plans has become a lot tougher than it was just 12 months ago, casting a huge shadow not just over the satellite sector...

SATELLITE 2009 opens following a busy 12 months. The sector has seen the emergence of new players, new business models and new opportunities — all coming against the backdrop of...

Welcome to the 28th SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition. This year’s theme “Solutions Start Here,” could not be more appropriate for today’s communications world, where customers do not want to create...

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) will add a government payload to Sirius 5, a satellite for SES (Euronext Paris:SESG) (Luxembourg Stock Exchange:SESG), currently under construction at the spacecraft manufacturing facility in California....

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, conducted a full mission duration firing of its new Merlin Vacuum engine, the company announced. That test, at the SpaceX Test Facility in McGregor,...

Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] will buy back $50 million more of its stock, adding to an earlier $50 million repurchase, the company announced. The move comes after an Orbital Taurus...

[Satellite News 02-25-09] AsiaSat has backed out of a launch contract with Sea Launch,  moving its AsiaSat-5 satellite because Sea Launch could not provide the customer with a desirable timeframe,...