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SkyTerra (OTCBB: SKYT) has received approval from the International Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for the transfer of control of the company to Harbinger.</font
Read MoreViaSat Inc. (Nasdaq: VSAT) has commenced an underwritten public offering of 5,500,000 shares of its common stock, consisting of 2,500,000 shares offered by ViaSat and 3,000,000 shares offered by certain selling stockholders.
Read MoreSea Launch received final approval on March 17 from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware on its motion to secure a second tranche of debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing in the amount of $12 million from Space Launch Services, LLC (SLS).
Read MoreSciemus and Glacier Insurance have announced that Glacier Insurance will support the Space In-Orbit Insurance Consortium led by Sciemus Space Insurance Services Limited with immediate effect.
Read MoreSea Launch Company, LLC, will receive a second tranche of debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing from Space Launch Services, LLC (SLS).
Read MoreIn an effort to recover and reinvest in our nation's businesses, NASA has awarded $50 million through funded agreements to further the commercial sector's capability to support transport of crew to and from low Earth orbit.
Read MorePCI Geomatics has been awarded CDA$496,000 in repayable funding through the Business and Regional Growth program by the Honourable Denis Lebel, the Canadian Minister of State for Economic Development.
Read MoreA generous donation from Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) has launched a new space education lab in Colorado Springs — the AGI Space Missions Simulator at the Space Foundation Discovery Institute.
Read MoreWord comes from Avanti: Further to the announcements on 21 and 29 December 2009 detailing the conditional placing of a total of 22,250,000 ordinary shares of 1p each in the Company (“Ordinary Shares”) at a placing price of 400 pence . . .
Read MoreStart-up satellite broadband service provider Avanti Communications of London announced that it has secured more than $300 million in loans and guarantees from the U.S. and French export-credit agencies for a Hylas 2 Ka-band satellite to be built by Orbital Sciences Corp. of Dulles, Virginia, and launched in the first half of 2012 by France’s Arianespace launch consortium.
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