U.S. Insists EPAA Is Aimed Towards Iran, Not Russia
The United States’ European missile defense system is aimed toward defending European allies against shorter-range Iranian missile strikes and not long-range Russian ones, according to ranking officials. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global...
DigitalGlobe Rejects GeoEye Bid; Says GeoEye Rejects Counterbid
DigitalGlobe [DGI] on Sunday said its board of directors unanimously rejected a hostile takeover bid from GeoEye [GEOY], saying the $792 million proposal undervalued the company. Moreover, in his letter GeoEye, DigitalGlobe President and CEO Jeffrey Tarr...
GeoEye Makes Bid For DigitalGlobe After Merger Rejected
After several months of unsuccessfully courting its primary domestic competitor in the commercial satellite imagery business, GeoEye [GEOY] on Friday announced a $792 million takeover offer for DigitalGlobe [DGI], saying the deal would enable the two...
Study Predicts Booming Market For Satellite Imagery
The demand for location-based services provided by the commercial satellite imagery industry rose dramatically in the last two years and will grow threefold by 2015, according to a recent study by a consulting firm. The study by Boston-based OC&C Strategy...
AFSPC To Conduct Wargame Studying Future Counter-Piracy Operations
United States Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) starting today will conduct a wargame with international partners that will study counter-piracy operations around the Horn of Africa 11 years into the future, according to service officials. The event, titled...
NASA Budget Bills Taking Shape On Hill
NASA budget-writers in the House and Senate are moving forward this week with contrasting spending plans for the space agency. The full Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) is slated to meet today to mark up a fiscal year 2013 NASA budget of $19.4...
