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2010

• Rebounding Economy Boosts Orbcomms Fortunes - SpaceNews.com - May.12.10
• Globalstar Announces First Quarter Results for 2010 - Globalstar - May.7.10
• Globalstar Has Kept 105K Subscribers on the Line Despite Degraded Voice Service - SpaceNews.com - May.7.10
• Globalstar Announces Operational Milestones and Timetable for Launch of New Satellites Implementation Timeline for Planning, Manufacture, and Launch of the World's Newest Global Commercial Satellite Constellation is 95-Percent Complete - Globalstar - May.6.10
• Thuraya Escalates Battle for Satellite Telephone Subscribers - SpaceNews.com - Apr.27.10
• Dulles-based Orbital Sciences buys spacecraft facility from General Dynamics - Washington Post - Apr.25.10
• Jacksonville well-suited for privatized space industry - Jacksonville Business Journal - Apr.16.10
• Company To Focus On Small Space Payloads - Aviation Week - Apr.16.10
• Andrews Space Forms Secondary Payload Service Company - Signs Agreement with SpaceX to Offer Near Term Flight Opportunities - Andrews Space - Apr.14.10
• Satellite Makers Prepare For Downturn - Aviation Week - Mar.19.10
• WorldSpace announces potential decommissioning of satellites - washingtonpost.com - Mar.19.10
• Satellite Broadband has Reputation Problem - SpaceNews.com - Mar.18.10
• Satellite Industry Performance Pleases Wall Street - SpaceNews.com - Mar.15.10
• Globalstar Sees Itself in the Drivers Seat- SpaceNews.com - Mar.12.10
• Orbital Chief Acquisition Could Bring Over 1B in New Business Within Reach - Space News - Mar.5.10
• New investment fund backs space technologies finding uses on Earth - ESA - Mar.5.10
• Consumer Broadband Proving Recession proof for Hughes - Space News - Feb.26.10
• Orbital reports profitable 2009 - spacetoday.net - Feb.20.10
• US Broadband Stimulus Sets Aside 100 Million To Subsidize Satellite Services - SpaceNews.com - Feb.19.10
  
• EVA Interviews Hoyt Davidson, Managing Partner of Near Earth LLC - Out of the Cradle - Feb.11.10
• Second-Gen Globalstar System On Way - Aviation Week - Jan.29.10
• Globalstars 2nd generation System Slated To Begin Launching This Fall - SpaceNews.com - Jan.29.10
• The 8th Continent Project Business Plan Competition 2010 - Colorado Space Coalition - Jan.19.10
• FCC Approves TerreStar Terrestrial Network - SpaceNews.com - Jan.14.10

2009

• Mobile broadband startup orders satellite - spacetoday.net - Dec.24.09
• Orbital and Thales Alenia Space Receive Contract for OverHorizon Commerical Communications Satellite - Orbital Sciences - Dec.23.09
• Dynetics Announces Purchase of Orion Propulsion - Dynetics - Dec.15.09
• SES invests in O3b - spacetoday.net - Nov.18.09
• Iridium Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results - Iridium - Nov.12.09
• Boeing expected to end stake in rocket firm Sea Launch - latimes.com - Nov.12.09
• Bankrupt Sea Launch Gets New Financing - SpaceNews.com - Nov.11.09
• GeoEye Reports Sharply Higher Earnings - SpaceNews.com - Nov.11.09
• Space markets post strong growth, defy economic crisis - Spaceflight Now - Nov.7.09
• ISRO to outsource rocket-work to private companies - India Times - Nov.2.09
• TopTenREVIEWS Acquires Space.com, LiveScience and Newsarama - SPACE.com - Oct.26.09
• Space Industry Seen Facing Delayed Econ Crisis - Aviation Week - Oct.14.09
• Sirius XM: Back From the Brink, But Not Yet a Buy - WSJ.com - Oct.7.09
• ViaSat Plots WildBlue Deal for Satellite Internet Service - WSJ.com - Oct.1.09
• Iridium Continues Turnaround With IPO: $200 Million Will Replace Satellites - washingtonpost.com - Sept.30.09
• Satellite Firms Vie for Broadband Stimulus Funds - SpaceNews.com - Sept.28.09
• Iridium plans its stock market comeback - Financial Times - Sept.24.09
• SkyTerra Communications, Inc. Announces Going-Private Transaction - SkyTerra - Sept.24.09
• Aabar Investments and Virgin Group Agree Equity Investment Partnership in Virgin Galactic - Aabar.com - July.28.09 (pdf)
• Abu Dhabi Fund Buys Stake in Virgin Galactic - WSJ.com - July.28.09
• Globalstar Completes $738 Million Financing: Financing fully funds Globalstar 2.0 second-generation satellite constellation and IP-based ground segment - Globalstar - July.1.09
• TerreStar Launching Pocket-Size Satellite Phone: TerreStar Service Hinges on Launch Of Satellite Today - washingtonpost.com - July.1.09
  
• TerreStar Successfully Launches World's Largest, Most Powerful Commercial Communications Satellite - TerreStar Networks Inc. - July.1.09
  
• Fresh satellite launches for Sirius XM Radio listeners - Spaceflight Now- June.30.09
• Sea Launch Bankruptcy Stokes Fears of Rising Launch Prices - SPACE.com - June.29.09
• UK 'space jewel' set for polish - BBC - June.26.09
• Space 'Hotel,' for Business or Pleasure, Takes Shape - ABC News - June.26.09
• Court filings detail Sea Launch's bankruptcy - Spaceflight Now - June.25.09
• Economic Recovery May be in the Stars, Aerospace Experts Say - Kansas City infoZine News - June.24.09.
• The Final Frontier - Santa Fe Reporter - June.24.09
• Sea Launch Files Chapter 11 to Address Financial Challenges - Sea Launch - June.23.09
• Orion Propulsion Completes Qualification Testing for Innovative "Green" Propulsion System that will Power World's First Commercial Space Habitat: Bigelow Aerospace Approves System; Moves to Production of Flight Hardware - Orion Propulsion - June.22.09
• Space Business Forum 2009 Round Up - 62 Mile Club - June.11.09
• Advertising - Marketers Look to the Heavens to Honor the First Moon Walk - NYTimes.com - June.11.09
• Iridium Reports First Quarter 2009 Results - Iridium - June.2.09
• Sky's the limit for space tourism: Summit reveals many possibilities - Florida Today - May.31.09
• The Investor's Guide to Space: How to make profits that are out of this world - IEEE Spectrum - June.09
• Space Is Big Business - IEEE Spectrum - June.09
• Satellite Net Service Sued for Caps, Paltry Bandwidth - Wired.com - May.20.09
• ICO Global Communications unit files for bankruptcy - Reuters - May.15.09
• DigitalGlobe IPO exceeds expectations - Denver Business Journal - May.14.09
• Orbcomm To Declare Total Loss on Six New Satellites - Space News/Space.com - May.13.09 (subscription)
• Satellite Firm Will Launch Offering: DigitalGlobe Hopes to Capitalize on Government's Need for Intelligence Data - WSJ.com - May.11.09
• Satellite Technology Helps Canada Patrol Waterways - SPACE.com - May.4.09
• COM DEV Successfully Demonstrates Advanced Space-Based AIS Technology: Validation satellite achieves one year of on-orbit operations - COM DEV - Apr.28.09
• In-Flight Internet From Space Takes Off - Space News/Space.com - Apr.27.09
• Satellite Phone Plan Aims High - WSJ.com - Apr.26.09
• Space Frontier Foundation and Heinlein Trust Announce $5,000 NewSpace Business Plan Prize - Space Frontier Foundation- Apr.23.09
• California Space Enterprise Leads Nation and World in Economic Impact $76 Billion annual contribution good news in today's economy - Calf. Space Authority - Apr.20.09 (pdf)
• SA sees brighter future in the stars - Business Report [South Africa] - Apr.12.09
• Space: The final frontier for cell phones? - PhysOrg.com - Apr.9.09
• The Space Report 2009 Reveals Industry Growth to $257 Billion Space Foundation - Mar.30.09
• Satcom Sector Expected To Ride High Through World Financial Crisis - Aviation Week - Mar.29.09
• Satellite Communications Market Weathers Troubled Economy - Space News/Space.com - Mar.16.09
• What's all this Buzz about a Lifestyle Beverage that's been in Space? - American Chronicle - Mar.11.09
• Entrepreneurs on the Final Frontier - Entrepreneur.com - Feb.26.09
• Center encourages aerospace entrepreneurs - CNN.com - Feb.23.09
• Space Firm's Outlook Hampered by New Rocket Costs, Economy - Space News - Feb.23.09
• Orbital Sciences revenue up 11% - Washington Business Journal - Feb.20.09
• Liberty loan keeps Sirius XM out of bankruptcy - spacetoday.net - Feb.18.09
• SIRIUS XM Radio and Liberty Media Reach Agreement for Investment - Liberty Media - Feb.17.09
• 'Scots Firm Seeks Funding to Build Fire-Spotting Satellite' - Scotsman Newspaper/Clyde Space - Feb.16.09
• Satellite TV Push Key to Eutelsat's Profits - Space News - Feb.16.09
• Report: Sirius XM preparing bankruptcy filing - spacetoday.net - Feb.10.09
• Satellite Broadband Start-Up Target's Pacific Islands - Space News/Space.com - Feb.9.09
• GeoEye Announces the Start of Commercial Operations for Its GeoEye-1 Earth-Imaging Satellite: World's Highest-Resolution, Color Satellite Imagery Now Available for Commercial Sale - GeoEye - Feb.05.09
• An Iridium Story of Never Say Die - Satnews - Feb.1.09
• Small Aerospace Companies: Space Activities in North America and Europe - Near Earth LLC - Jan.09 (50 pages, pdf)
• New European TV satellite fails quickly in space - Spaceflight Now - Jan.28.09
• CU-Boulder and SpaceDev Inc. Announce Launch of eSpace: The Center for Space Entrepreneurship - University of Colorado at Boulder - Jan.26.09