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Jan 22, 2013 (UPI)

Azerbaijan will launch its first telecommunications satellite in early February, the country's information and communications technology minister says. ICT Mini...

Ex-Im Approves Loan Guarantee to Finance Export of American-made Satellite to Spain

Jan 22, 2013 (SPX)

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) has authorized an $87.1 million guarantee of a loan extended by Credit Agricole and other European lend...

US urged to relax satellite export restrictions

Jan 09, 2013 (XNA)

The Ministry of Commerce expressed concern after the United States kept a tight rein on the export of satellites and related items to China, and a senior China-...

Ball Aerospace Realigns Civil and Operational Space Business Units

Jan 08, 2013 (SPX)

Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. has announced three leadership appointments and an organizational structure change that will position operating sectors fo...

Boeing building telecom satellites to expand Mexico's networks

Jan 08, 2013 (UPI)

Boeing is building two high-power satellites for Mexico as part of the Latin American country's program of boosting information security and expanding networks ...

Space Export Control Reform Passes House and Senate

Dec 27, 2012 (SPX)

Legislation reforming space-related export control has passed the House and the Senate and is expected to be signed by the President. The legislation is include...

Energia Rejects Space Industry Engine Holding Idea

Dec 27, 2012 (RIA Novosti)

Russian space rocket corporation Energia head Vitaly Lopota on Wednesday rejected as a "non-market" measure the idea of establishing an engine holding company i...

ESA's powerful new tracking station ready for service

Dec 19, 2012 (ESA)

A new satellite tracking station at Malargue, Argentina, will be formally inaugurated on Tuesday, completing the trio of deep-space stations and confirming ESA ...

Loral Continues Corporate Office Restructuring

Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)

Loral Space and Communications Inc. reports that its board of directors has named Avi Katz, 53, to the role of president of the company. Mr. Katz, who replaces ...

Boeing Ships 3rd Intelsat 702MP Satellite for Launch

Dec 19, 2012 (SPX)

The third of four 702 Medium Power (MP) satellites that Boeing [NYSE: BA] is manufacturing for Intelsat S.A., the world's leading provider of satellite services...

Tracking station going online in Argentina

Dec 14, 2012 (UPI)

The European Space Agency says a satellite tracking station in Argentina will help track missions voyaging hundreds of millions of miles into our solar system. ...

TRT Turk Selects SES To Reach Audiences In Sub-Saharan Africa

Dec 10, 2012 (SPX)

SES has announced that Turkish public broadcaster, Turkiye Radyo ve Televizyon Kurumu (TRT), has selected SES to reach audiences in sub-Saharan Africa. TRT will...

UK space companies benefit from investment in research and development

Dec 05, 2012 (SPX)

Companies working in, or looking to set up in, the space community at Harwell will benefit from 1 million pound funding to help them to go further and faster to...

Satellite Applications Catapult centre ramps up for business

Dec 05, 2012 (SPX)

The Minister for Universities and Science, David Willetts, has announced the appointment of the Chairman, Tim Sherwood, and Chief Executive Officer, Stuart Mart...

Space: Europe's 'Vomit Comet' sets commercial flights

Dec 04, 2012 (AFP)

How much would you pay to emulate astronauts as they float weightlessly in space? Until now restricted to trainee space explorers and scientists, Europe's "Zero...

Roskosmos to design satellite for Brazil

Nov 28, 2012 (Voice of Russia)

The Russian space agency Roskosmos has been in talks to create a communication and remote sensing Earth satellite for Brazil. According to Roskosmos chief Vladi...

Boeing Partner Orbital Completes MEXSAT Bicentenario Satellite

Nov 28, 2012 (SPX)

Boeing and partner Orbital Sciences are a step closer to helping the government of Mexico provide advanced communications services throughout the country and su...

Sri Lanka partners Chinese communication satellite

Nov 28, 2012 (AFP)

Sri Lanka's President Wednesday welcomed the first communications satellite launch in partnership with a Chinese state-owned company, to take television to rura...

Europe to invest 12 bln euros in a new space Odyssey

Nov 25, 2012 (Voice of Russia)

Member states of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Canada met in Naples, Italy, to determine the space agenda and the budget for the next five years. The disc...

EDRS space network ready to go ahead

Nov 25, 2012 (ESA)

The design of Europe's data relay satellite system - EDRS - has been completed and approved. This marks the moment when it moves ahead with a green light from i...