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Big boost for UK space technology industry
Apr 11, 2012 (SPX)
The Government is to grant nearly 6 million pound to co-fund major new British research that will develop commercial products and services using space technolog...
Murdoch's Sky News admits hacking 'canoe' man's emails
Apr 05, 2012 (AFP)
Sky News, the British broadcaster partly owned by Rupert Murdoch, admitted on Thursday that it had illegally hacked into the emails of a man who notoriously fak...
James Murdoch quits as BSkyB chairman
Apr 04, 2012 (AFP)
James Murdoch resigned as chairman of British pay-TV giant BSkyB Tuesday, saying he did not want to become a "lightning rod" for the hacking scandal at his fath...
Orbital Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Company's Founding
Apr 03, 2012 (SPX)
Orbital Sciences has celebrated the company's first three decades in the space business as it completed 30 years of operations since the enterprise's founding o...
Satellite And SES Continue On Their Growth Path In Europe
Mar 30, 2012 (SPX)
SES report that satellite has become the leading TV infrastructure in Europe, ahead of terrestrial and cable reception. Approximately 84 million European househ...
Russia Awards Astrium Two Satellite Contracts
Mar 30, 2012 (SPX)
Astrium has been awarded two contracts from the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) for the delivery of two telecommunication satellites Express AM4...
UNL offers new degree in space, cyber and telecommunications law
Mar 29, 2012 (SPX)
Six people on board the International Space Station hopped into emergency escape pods early Saturday morning in case of a possible collision with a chunk of a w...
First Boeing 702 Medium Power Satellite Sends Initial Signals from Space
Mar 27, 2012 (SPX)
Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from Intelsat 22, the first of a series of 702MP (medium power) satellites it is delivering for Intelsat. The sig...
Artemis Listens Out For ATV Whisper On Route To ISS
Mar 27, 2012 (ESA)
ESA's Artemis communications satellite is in action again to ensure the safe arrival of Europe's third Automated Transfer Vehicle at the International Space Sta...
China hands over NigComSat 1-R to Nigeria
Mar 26, 2012 (XNA)
China Great Wall Industry Corporation (CGWIC) handed the recently launched NigComSat 1-R to its Nigeria counterpart on Monday at the Obasanjo Space Center in Ab...
United Technologies To Sell Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne
Mar 21, 2012 (SPX)
In a meeting with investors and analysts, United Technologies has updated its financing plan for the proposed $16.5 billion cash acquisition of Goodrich Corp., ...
Call for a Small mission opportunity in ESA's Science Programme
Mar 19, 2012 (ESA)
Through the present Call the Director of Science and Robotic Exploration solicits from the broad scientific community in ESA's Member States proposals for the c...
Arianespace to launch EUTELSAT 25B and Eshail 1 satellites
Mar 15, 2012 (SPX)
Eutelsat Communications and Es'hailSat, the Qatar Satellite Company, have selected Arianespace to launch their EUTELSAT 25B1 / Es'hail 1 satellite in the second...
Boeing to Build 4 Satellites for Asia Broadcast Satellite Satmex Team
Mar 15, 2012 (SPX)
Boeing has been awarded a four-satellite contract, with options for four additional satellites, through a joint procurement by Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) an...
ViviSat Is Ready to Build
Mar 12, 2012 (SPX)
ViviSat, the only U.S.-based provider of in-orbit servicing, will be showing the satellite industry that it is ready to build its mission extension vehicles. Th...
Global Satellite Industry denounces UNIDROIT Protocol
Mar 12, 2012 (SPX)
The European Satellite Operators' Association (ESOA), the US Satellite Industry Association (SIA), the Space Industry Association of Australia, the Canadian Sat...
New Report Expands on Vital Role of Aerospace and Defense Industry to U.S. Economy
Mar 08, 2012 (SPX)
A new report commissioned by AIA demonstrates the irreplaceable impact the aerospace and defense (A/D) industry has on America's economic and national security....
Space department denies information to ex-ISRO chief
Mar 05, 2012 (IANS)
The Department of Space (DoS) has declined to provide key documents sought by former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair to know...
Ex-ISRO chief Madhavan Nair ready for a probe
Mar 05, 2012 (IANS)
"I have done no wrong. If an inquiry is ordered, I will come out clean. But the inquiry should be done by technical people and also those in the know of governm...
Space department denies information to ex-ISRO chief
Mar 01, 2012 (IANS)
The Department of Space (DoS) has declined to provide key documents sought by former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman G. Madhavan Nair to know...
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