Satellite News

Satellite tracking and lie-detector tests ought be used as tools to protect children from sex offenders in the United Kingdom, according to a children’s advocate quoted in British press reports on Nov. 14. With release of the Belfast-based Barnardo’s new study, “A Risk Too Far?,” the charity’s chief…

A satellite-based navigation system to facilitate seamless air travel across the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans will be among improvements made through a Nov. 13 deal between the U.S. Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) and India’s Ministry of Civil…

SES Astra and SES New Skies have inked a deal to broadcast France 24, a new French channel for international news, on an…

NASA has selected Proteus — a low-Earth orbit (LEO) multipurpose platform developed in cooperation with the French space agency CNES — as part…

Nlets, a Phoenix-based supplier of secure, interstate, justice and public-safety network systems, announced Nov. 14 a one-year contract…

Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) said it has been awarded the world’s first government Global Network Satellite System (GNSS) contract designed to harness signals from all current and planned positioning satellite systems – GPS, GLONASS, and Galileo (G3).

The Space Foundation has released “The Space Report: The Guide to Global Space Activity.” Among its revelations: the space industry now tops US$180 billion in global revenues, and a newly created index of space equities has outperformed both the S&P 500 and NASDAQ.

SpaceDev, Inc. has reported the financial results for its third quarter ending 30 September 2006.