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TerreStar Corporation announced that its majority owned subsidiary TerreStar Networks Inc. is implementing certain cost reduction measures including a headcount reduction of 79 management and non-management positions across the company.
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Lockheed Martin Corporation today reported first quarter 2008 financial results.
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Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) was selected to provide a new direct broadcast satellite (DBS) for DISH Network Corporation.
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NASA has selected General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Inc., to build the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) spacecraft.
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“You know in Russia, there are certain bad omens about this sort of thing [i.e. having women aboard a (space)ship–Ed.], but thank God that everything worked out successfully. Of course in the future, we will work somehow to ensure that the number of women will not surpass [the number of men]. This isn’t discrimination. I’m just saying that when a majority [of the crew] is female, sometimes certain kinds of unsanctioned behaviour or something else occurs, that’s what I’m talking about.” — Russian Federal Space Agency head Anatoly Perminov (according to AFP) apparently thinks he has found the true reason behind the ballistic re-entry of Soyuz TMA-11, whose crew comprised one man and two women
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The Board of Directors of TerreStar Corporation announced that it has made changes to the executive management team of its majority-owned subsidiary TerreStar Networks Inc.
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Talia Limited, one of the largest suppliers of satellite Internet services for North Africa and the Middle East, has contracted 10.9 MHz on SES New Skies’ NSS-703 satellite to introduce a new broadband network. The network has passed acceptance terms and is available for immediate use.
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The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) have successfully tested a high-speed Internet connection using the recently launched Kizuna satellite.
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