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Lockheed Martin is filled with happy folk over the ITT Corporation delivery of a new demo payload for a modernized Global Positioning system block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite to their Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, facilities.
Read MoreWegener Corporation [NASDAQ: WGNR) has announced a large U.S. cable programmer is using WEGENER satellite receiver equipment to distribute its hi-def video programming service to its cable and satellite affiliates.
Read MoreNASA has returned to Boeing [NYSE: BA] for its nexgen series of Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS), continuing the communications satellite line that started with the launch of TDRS H in 2000 and, coupled with Boeing's other work for NASA, spans more than four decades.
Read MoreViaSat Inc. [NASDAQ:VSAT] has been named as the only “Excellence VSAT Equipment Providing Enterprise" in the 2007 Excellence Brand Enterprises in Chinese Application Industry awards program.
Read MoreWildBlueCommunications, Inc. has signed an agreement with Google, Inc. [NASDAQ: GOOG] to provide a suite of enhanced services to WildBlue customers.
Read MoreNorsat International Inc. [TSX: NII and OTC BB: NSATF] has been awarded a $750,000 Indefinite Delivery/ Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract by the United States Department of Defense (DoD).
Read MoreInsurance in the amount of $20 million has been obtained by GeoEye, Inc., for their IKONOS satellite for 2008, with terms quite comparable to those the company received for insurance that satellite in 2007.
Read MoreHISPASAT has awarded to Arianespace the launching of their new comsat, the Amazonas 2. The satellite will be in the orbital position of 61° W. The launch is planned for 2009.
Read MoreThe Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has been awarded an initial NASA contract valued at approximately $265 million. The company will produce the Ares I crew launch vehicle's instrument unit avionics (IUA).
Read MoreONDAS Media, the satradio company for Europe, has issued an Authorization To Proceed to Space Systems/Loral for that firm to start work on developing a state-of-the-art satellite infrastructure, and the teams can continue to refine the actual contract parameters.
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