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Alliant Techsystems (ATK) will acquire Swales Aerospace, ATK announced April 3. Swales, based in Beltsville, Md., provides satellite components and subsystems, small spacecraft, and engineering services to NASA, the U.S....

The European Commission (EC) has given the green light to the Thales acquisition of Alcatel’s stakes in Alcatel Alenia Space and Telespazio. "This merger creates a complex vertical structure in...

Pending a meeting this week in Ukraine of the Sea Launch Failure Review Oversight Board (FROB), and based on company estimates, the launch provider is anticipating its return to flight...

XM Canada and Rogers Communications reached an agreement to provide XM Canada content across the Rogers wireless, cable and Internet platforms, Rogers announced April 3. The companies will form a...

News Corp.’s shareholders on April 3 approved a plan to give up the company’s 38.5 percent stake in DirecTV Group Inc. plus $550 million in cash in exchange for Liberty...

Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.), chairman of the House committee on science and technology, released an April 2 letter to President George W. Bush calling for the removal of Robert Cobb...

EchoStar Communications Corp. and Google have entered into a partnership agreement to introduce the first automated system for buying, selling, delivering and measuring television ads on Dish Network’s 125 national...

Arqiva has completed its acquisition of BT Satellite Broadcast Services. Arqiva announced in November 2006 that it was going to acquire the company in a cash deal worth 25 million...

Alcatel Alenia Space has been awarded a 9 million euro ($12.0 million) contract by Globalstar Inc. to upgrade the latter’s Control Network Facility, Alcatel Alenia Space announced April 3. The...

Eutelsat has confirmed that an Arabic version of the channel France 24 launched April 2 across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. French and English versions of the channel...