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Spacehab, Incorporated announced that its spacecraft processing and facility services subsidiary, Astrotech Space Operations, has been awarded a new US$1.6 million payload processing contract by Boeing to support the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Orbital Express mission.

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate has chosen Lockheed Martin to provide engineering design and development support for the Autonomous Nanosatellite Guardian Evaluating Local Space satellite programme.

Alliant Techsystems has received a US$90 million contract to provide first, second, and third stage Orion solid rocket motors to Orbital Sciences Corporation for use in a variety of launch platforms including the Ground-based Missile Defense (GMD) programme.

SES Astra signed some key channel contracts in Germany ahead of the launch of its new digital platform, scheduled for the first half of 2007. SES signed deals with…

Atlantic Canada’s Aliant will launch a high-speed Internet satellite service to customers without…

The U.S. Department of Defense awarded Frequency Electronics Inc. multiple contracts to build a secure communications…

Lockheed Martin delivered the flight structure of the second Advanced Extremely…

Despite overcapacity in the commercial satellite market and the continuing decline in the number of commercial launches being conducted, satellite operators are having trouble finding rides to space because launch vehicle manufacturers have sized their industry to match commercial demand, according to…