Satellite News

The investigation into the crash of a Dnepr rocket on 26 July increasingly seems to focus on the rocket’s flight control system, according to Itar-Tass.

Geoeye announced Aug. 1 the resignation of Timothy Puckorius, the company’s senior vice president of international sales…

The U.S. Air Force awarded Harris Corp. a six-month, $1 million contract to complete a concept development study to incorporate the National Polar-orbiting…

Boeing, in cooperation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratories, demonstrated how its Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) could link one…

Northrop Grumman Corp. announced July 31 it completed range tests for its downlink phased array antenna for the Advanced Extremely High…

MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (MDA) received a contract from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to study the development of a joint…

Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. announced July 31 it divided its defense operations organization unit into two separate business units. National Defense…

Sirius Satellite Radio now expects to finish 2006 with 6.3 million subscribers after adding more than 600,000 in the second quarter, the company announced Aug. 1. The company previously forecast that it would reach 6.2 million subscribers by the end of the year. Sirius closed the second quarter, which ended…