To accommodate increased customer demand for video services, Intelsat has appointed Doug Triblehorn and Jean-Philippe Gillet to head regional sales efforts for the company’s Media and Entertainment Business Unit in […]
Loral Reaches Global Settlement with Alcatel
Loral Space & Communications (NYSE: LOR) announced today that it has reached an overall settlement with Alcatel resolving all outstanding issues between them including a contract dispute that has been […]
Alcatel Space “DSL in the Sky” DVB-RCS solution
Paris, July 1, 2003 – Nanjing Toptry China-Spacenet Co. Ltd, a broadband access service provider in Peoples’ Republic of China, has granted a multi-million US dollar contract to Alcatel (Paris: […]
Canadian Microsatellite “Phones Home” to Dynacon’s Team
Dynacon Inc. today confirmed that first contact was made successfully with the MOST satellite at 4:51 PM EDT. Radio contact was made during the first pass of MOST over its […]
Hawaiian Telescope Team Makes Debut Discovery
Astronomers have observed a young star ringed by a swirling disc that may spin off planets, marking the first published science observation using two linked 10-meter (33- foot) telescopes in […]
NASA Center Director to Speak at Annual National Federation of the Blind (NFB) Convention
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Director A.V. Diaz will be a keynote speaker at the annual National Federation of the Blind (NFB) Convention on July 1 in Louisville, Ky. His […]
NASA Experiments Validate 50 Year old Hypothesis
NASA-funded researchers recently obtained the first complete proof of a 50-year-old hypothesis explaining how liquid metals resist turning into solids. The research is featured on the cover of the July […]
EUROCKOT Successfully Launches MOM – Rockot hits different Orbits
Bremen / Plesetsk, 30 June 2003. Eurockot Launch Services GmbH successfully launched the Multiple Orbit Mission into different orbits today at 14:15 GMT using the ROCKOT launch system from Plesetsk […]
Texas Schools Included in NASA Explorer Schools Program
In a classroom setting, NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe today introduced the Agency’s newest education initiative, the NASA Explorer Schools program. Four schools and one Texas school district were unveiled as […]
NASA’s Ed Lu Turns 40 Aboard International Space Station
NASA Astronaut Ed Lu will celebrate his 40th birthday on July 1 while orbiting 240 miles above the Earth in the International Space Station. In honor of his birthday, Hawaii’s […]