Government/Military

Boeing, SpaceX and Sierra Nevada Corporation are in competition to build the replacement Space Shuttle to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).

Space scientists at the University of Calgary have a principal role in the European Space Agency (ESA) Swarm mission, a triple-satellite mission created to better understand Earth’s magnetic field, including the weakening of our planet’s protective “shield” against cosmic radiation

ORBCOMM announced that its globaltrak division has completed the shipment of its fuel monitoring system, which is designed to prevent theft of mission-critical fuel used by U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

A 200-year-old shipwreck has been discovered off the coast of Texas, where archeologists have launched a high-tech salvage operation

Armed with only a team of student volunteers and a workspace in his mother’s backyard, 28-year-old Chris Nsamba has set out to build and launch Uganda’s first space observer.

Astrium has recently signed a contract with the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), the South Korean space agency.

SatCam hopes to take user-submitted data to improve weather research and forecasting, while giving users an added bonus.

Brazil and Argentina have joined an international effort to provide data and to help prevent an ocean color data gap, which occurred after the Coastal Zone Color Scanner (CZCS) mission failed in 1986.

Astrium Satellites and Thales Alenia Space have been declared the winners of an €800 million contract with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ministry of Defense. The recent announcement names Astrium as the lead contractor for the Falcon Eye program, a UAE defense initiative responsible for managing next-generation military surveillance satellites.

NASA and NOAA are using GPS to better forecast the ferocity of hurricane and tropical cyclone winds.

Eumetsat announced that Calibration and Validation (cal/val) activities concluded after the final Product Validation Review Board (PVRB) meeting declared the IASI Level 2 (L2) products derived from Metop B operational.

Following integration of its full payload stack, the heavy-lift Ariane 5 is now complete in preparation for its July 25 launch.

For the first time, mobile users, including military troops and border patrol agents, will soon be able to use secure voice and data on the move

Thales Alenia Space has delivered its second pressurized cargo module (PCM) to Orbital Sciences Corp. for integration in the Cygnus spacecraft that will transport cargo to the International Space Station.

The SPOT 6, a high-resolution Earth observation satellite designed, built and operated by Astrium has been qualified by the Joint Research Center (JRC) to take part in the MARS-CAP program run by the European Commission.

Students at Teikyo University in Japan are building a slime-mold–housing micro-satellite to orbit the Earth.

Flying 400 km above the planet and circling it every 90 minutes, the orbiting International Space Station (ISS) provides a unique vantage point of the earth using satellites to assist emergency responders.

After a meeting between European space ministers gave the approval to Europe’s next-generation Ariane 6 launch vehicle, the ESA plans to consult with the satellite industry to gather competing ideas on key work packages for the new launch system.

MapBox, a company that allows anyone to design and publish custom maps, plans to launch MapBox Satellite Live.

NASA’s gravity field satellite mission GRACE has provided nine years worth of data about changes in Earth’s gravity field

AIS Engineering has been awarded a Custom Satellite Solutions Small Business (CS2SB) task order to provide U.S., Europe, Southwest Asia and Horn of Africa Ku-Band services for deployable communications. The order includes one base year and four option years.

Scientists have observed a rare solar tsunami on the sun’s surface, with the help of the Japanese satellite Hinode.

Recently, the Satellite Industry Association (SIA) filed comments with the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security, a division of the U.S. Department of Commerce that ...

The House Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies appropriations subcommittee approved a bill that provides $4.9 billion for NOAA in the 2014 fiscal year that begins on 1 October

NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) satellite has for the first time mapped out the structure of our solar system.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) have built a new generation of robo-arms, designed to act as repair mechanics for orbiting satellite.

Startup company NanoSatisfi plans to launch its first cube satellite on August 4, allowing anyone to rent time and conduct their own experiments on it for as low as $250 per week.

ATK will exhibit its titanium propellant tank capabilities at the 49th American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Joint Propulsion Conference in San Jose, Calif.

According to a new study conducted by Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and Australian National University, carbon dioxide has boosted green foliage in the world’s driest regions through a process called “CO2 fertilization.”

Placing Oklahoma on the map as a potential satellite launch venue is not an easy task, according to Oklahoma’s Secretary of Science and Technology, Stephen McKeever.