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From the Middle East comes the birth of a new $500 million privately held satellite operator, SmartSat which embarked on a joint venture with Smartlink, a global broadband satellite service provider that is a private Jordanian shareholding company.
Read MoreSkyTrac Systems has signed a dealership agreement with Hawker Pacific Airservices to resell SkyTrac’s flight following and SATCOM solutions in the United Arab Emirates.
Read MoreAlliant Techsystems played a key role in the successful launch of United Launch Alliance's Delta II rocket from NASA's Space Launch Complex 2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, carrying the NOAA-N Prime satellite for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Read MoreThe NOAA-N Prime spacecraft, the final Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES), was launched successfully this morning at 2:22 a.m. PST from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) built NOAA-N Prime at its Space Systems Company Sunnyvale facility.
Read MoreOrbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) is in final preparations for the launch of the NSS-9 commercial communications satellite for its customer SES NEW SKIES of The Hague, The Netherlands.
Read MoreOn February 5th at Gazprom headquarters, Dmitry Sevastiyanov, Director General of Gazprom Space Systems, and Reynald Seznec, CEO of Thales Alenia Space, signed the contract for the manufacture and delivery of two Yamal-400 new generation communications satellites.
Read MoreJapan's Broadcasting Satellite System Corporation (B-SAT) has selected Integral Systems (Nasdaq: ISYS) to deliver a turnkey satellite control system for the BSAT-3b and BSAT-3c satellites, scheduled for launch in 2010 and 2011, respectively.
Read MoreARABSAT has selected the consortium of Astrium and Thales Alenia Space to build and deliver in orbit two new satellites, Arabsat-5C and Arabsat-6B.
Read MorePetra Mateos-Aparicio, Chairman of Hispasat, and Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, have signed a launch service & solutions contract for the Hispasat-1E satellite, this now being the first contract of 2009 signed by Arianespace.
Read MoreTHAICOM Public Company Limited (SET INDEX: THCOM) has signed a contract with Real Metro Company Limited for capacity on the THAICOM-5 satellite platform to transmit its seven television channels under the production and operation of Next Step Company Limited “Next Step”, its subsidiary.
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