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Lockheed Martin has delivered the flight structure for the third Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) satellite to the company’s Mississippi facility for integration with its propulsion subsystem, Lockheed Martin announced...

France’s Corot astronomy spacecraft was placed into polar orbit Dec. 27 by an enhanced Russian Soyuz 2-1b rocket in a mission conducted jointly from Baikonur Cosmodrome by Arianespace and its...

Empost, the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) national courier company, is installing GPS units in more than 425 delivery vans and motorcycles as part of an advanced information technology communications system,...

ViaSat Inc. has received a $4.6 million order from the Defense Communication and Army Transmission Systems (PM DCATS) for MD-1366 enhanced bandwidth efficient modems, which are used by the U.S....

Following a day’s delay, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced Dec. 26 that a key receiving antenna on its Kiku-8 engineering test satellite had been deployed, pushing completion of...

Boeing Satellite Systems Inc. was awarded a $50.7 million contract modification to begin work on the fifth Wideband Gapfiller Satellite (WGS), the U.S. Air Force announced Dec. 22. The contract...

The Russian government has placed three Glonass navigation satellites and a communications spacecraft into orbit in a pair of launches, according to press reports. A Proton rocket lofted three modernized...

The Russian Federal Space Agency is awaiting Iran’s proposals for equipment to make the Iranian satellite Zohre, according to Dec. 22 Russian reports. The agency’s deputy director, Yuri Nosenko, was...

EchoStar Communications Corp. announced Dec. 22 that its pay-TV provider Dish Network passed the 13 million-customer milestone.

Spacenet announced Dec. 22 the availability of its new StarBand Nova Pro satellite broadband Internet service for residential customers. Offered at StarBand’s lowest-ever price point, the Nova Pro service —...