Government/Military

NASA is currently mulling potential uses for the two spy satellite telescopes that it received as a donation from the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) last year.

Forty years ago NASA launched Skylab, America’s first space station. As part of an initiative to reuse the hardware the agency developed to land on the moon, the station was launched into orbit on May 14, 1973 on board one of the last Saturn V rockets.

Europe has inaugurated its newest Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) service center.

[Satellite TODAY 05-14-13] Gigasat has announced the signing of a contract with the New Zealand Ministry of Defense. This new deal is for the supply of Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) certified […]

Tags: Drone, Prototype, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Publication: NationalGeographic.com Publication Date: 05/02/2013 The half-inch drone could be used for environmental monitoring or pollination of crops. Image credit: Harvard Microrobotics Lab Researchers […]

In-orbit servicing provider ViviSat has unveiled a highly agile hosted payload capability that aims to supplement its life extension services. ViviSat uses the Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV), manufactured its parent […]

The Hosted Payload Alliance (HPA) has selected Janet Nickloy, director of Aerospace Mission Solutions for Harris Corporation, as its 2013 chair. The HPA fosters dialogue between the government and the […]

Aireon LLC, developer of the first satellite-based global air traffic surveillance system, has announced a long-term commercial data services contract with Nav Canada. Aireon will use the hosted payload space […]

Yahsat has selected Astrium Services Government to offer Yahsat’s Military Ka-band service to the U.S. government. The service will allow any U.S. government or Department of Defense end user to […]

Emerging Markets Communications (EMC), which signed a strategic commercial agreement to use Arabsat’s new BADR-7 satellite earlier this year, could look to do further hosted payload deals in the near […]

I always thought PowerPoint presentations were fairly innocuous and really just a way of stimulating debate, but it seems a presentation that Kay Sears gave in 2007 was a key […]

Tags: LandSat, USGS, NASA, Google, Satellite Imagery Publication: NBCNews.com Publication Date: 05/09/2013 To access the interactive map, click on the image. Google, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), NASA and TIME […]

The Radarsat-1 Earth observation satellite, built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies for the Canadian government, has concluded its mission after serving the organization for more than 17 years – 12 years longer than its mission life.

[Satellite TODAY 05-09-13] BringCom has announced it has been awarded a new multi-year contract by an international carrier for a U.S. Government circuit. Under the contract, valued at $7.324 million, […]

A PowerPoint presentation given by Intelsat General’s President, Kay Sears proved to be the catalyst that sparked GeoMetWatch (GMW) to pursue a hosted payload deal. GMW is a commercial technology […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-08-13] Raytheon U.K. and the Canadian Department of National Defense have selected ITT Exelis to provide anti-jam GPS antenna arrays for several Canadian airborne military platforms.       […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected its seventh mission for Europe’s Earth Explorer project. The Biomass satellite will use advanced radar technology to map and monitor living matter (plants an animals) as well as inorganic carbon contained throughout the world’s forests.

[Satellite TODAY 05-07-13] The U.S. Air Force has awarded ITT Exelis a $6.1 million contract to insert a modern data storage and memory technology into the Strategic Automated Command Control […]

[Satellite TODAY 05-02-13] NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has selected ITT Exelist to provide specialized antennas for the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere & Climate-2 (COSMIC-2) program. Under the […]

The U.S. Military’s decision to sign a $10 million, one-year deal lease with a Chinese firm to use the Apstar-7 satellite, built by Thales Alenia Space, to provide communications for its Africa Command has stirred up opinions from critics.

The U.S. Military’s decision to sign a $10 million, one-year deal lease with a Chinese firm to use the Apstar-7 satellite, built by Thales Alenia Space, to provide communications for its Africa Command has stirred up opinions from critics.

Belarus and Azerbaijan are working on signing a cooperation agreement under which Azerbaijan will be allowed to use information and images collected by BelKA-2, a Belarusian satellite launched in July 2012.

A new report from the U.S. General Accountability Office (GAO) has highlighted how the Department of Defense’s (DOD) satellite control networks are fragmented and potentially duplicative.

[Satellite TODAY 04-26-13] MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has signed CA$3.2 million worth of contracts with the Government of Canada’s Department of National Defense (DND) to provide operations for the […]

Glonass-M satellite. Image credit: Reshetnev [Satellite TODAY 04-26-13] Arianespace has announced the successful 1804th launch of the Soyuz vehicle. Liftoff took place on Friday, April 26 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-25-13] The European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace have announced their decision to postpone the Vega launch VV02 for 24 hours. The launch, originally scheduled for May 2, […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-24-13] EUMETSAT announced the Metop-B has successfully replaced Metop-A as its prime operational polar-orbiting satellite following the end of its commissioning period. Metop-A will continue operations as long […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-24-13] Satrec Initiative (SI) of South Korea and the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) of United Arab Emirates have jointly announced the development program of […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-13] Cal-Bay Systems has introduced its Spectrum DefenderTM, a new instrument that combines both spectrum monitoring and RF recording into one portable, off-the-shelf PXI-based platform.     As FCC […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-13] MetiSpace Technologies CEO Theresa Beech is confident that the company can make a big impact in the U.S. government market this year. GMV, the private multi-national firm, […]