Government/Military

The Air Force is set to award manufacturer Lockheed Martin with a military contract to procure and build the final two satellites of the six-spacecraft Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) communications constellation by the end of 2012.

[Satellite TODAY 12-18-12] X-band satellite operator XTAR has spent the last 18 months retooling and reconfiguring its infrastructure to provide a whole new world of potential for bandwidth. Why? As […]

Advantech AMT has received new orders for its DISA Certified MIL-STD-188-165A, AMT73L SCPC Modem from a major U.S. military supplier totaling $1.7 million.

The newest LandSat satellite, LandSat 8, has been scheduled for a February 2013 launch.

The Japan Aerospace and Exploration Agency (JAXA) has developed the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) Small Satellite Orbital Deployer (J-SSOD) to cut costs of satellite launches and has installed it on the International Space Station.

Intense solar storms are expected next year, which means that the number of sunspots will increase massively, causing changes in our planet’s ionosphere.

United Launch Alliance successfully launched U.S. Air Force’s X-37B, an unmanned Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), on its classified mission.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has signed an over $100 million contract with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to supply the communications payload solution for the Amos-6 satellite.

MapBox, a provider of open source solutions for designing and publishing maps via the cloud, has selected DigitalGlobe as their commercial earth imagery provider.

Five CubeSats have been successfully launched from the International Space Station (ISS), making it the first time the station performs such task.

Hurricane Sandy dominated the news as we watched it unfold and saw the trail of destruction left in its wake. Thanks to satellite technology, we are better able to predict […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 11-26-12] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is potentially exploring the idea of importing or building a six-ton high-throughput Ka-band satellite that would feature 100 beams compared […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-26-12] SES has signed an agreement with the European Space Agency (ESA), including SES Broadband Services to offer participants in the ESA’s ARTES (Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems) […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-23-12] The European Space Agency (ESA) and Eumetsat have signed the agreement to determine the principles of cooperation between the two agencies when establishing the various components of […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-21-12] The U.S. Navy and U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) have accepted the first Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite for initial operational use. MUOS is a next-generation narrowband […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-20-12] Rockwell Collins will provide satellite services to the U.S. Army Communication-Electronics Command under a $35 million contract, the company announced Nov. 20.       Rockwell Collins […]

 [Satellite TODAY 11-20-12] Within the next three years, China will launch a communications satellite for the Democratic Republic of Congo, Chinese media officials announced Nov. 19. According to Xinhua news […]

[Satellite News 11-20-12] So far in 2012, the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) has authorized almost a billion-and-a-half dollars in satellite transactions. Yesterday, the Ex-Im Bank added […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 11-19-12] Israeli satellite operator Spacecom has signed a significant agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to plan, manufacture, prepare for launch and provide ground control operations for […]

 [Satellite TODAY 11-16-12] The first Sri Lankan communication satellite is scheduled to launch from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on Nov. 22, operate by mid-2013 for commercial purposes and is […]

[Satellite News 11-15-12] While the impending budgetary compromise may have recently dominated mass media news cycles, budgetary pressures are nothing new to the Pentagon – a fact that Air Force […]

 [Satellite TODAY 11-15-12] The U.S. Air Force and Raytheon Company have conducted concept evaluation demonstrations of the Ground Based Sense and Avoid (GBSAA) and the repurposed Standard Terminal Automation Replacement […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 11-14-12] Raytheon has submitted a proposal to the Air Force for its Space Fence program to tackle the increasingly critical issue of space debris in orbit.  The […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-14-12] Communications solutions provider Globecomm Systems received a $4.5 million contract from the NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCI Agency) to upgrade its previously deployed GPS-Based Force tracking […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-14-12] Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Air Force have completed on-orbit testing of the second Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications satellite, turning over Satellite Control Authority […]

[Satellite TODAY 11-13-12] Raytheon Company has met critical performance requirements to advance ongoing system integration on the U.S. Navy Cobra Judy Replacement (CJR) program by achieving two significant milestones during […]

Government sequestration in the United States will significantly harm ongoing national defense operations and procurement of new systems needed by warfighters, Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) CEO Marion Blakey said in […]

Judging by recent plans unveiled for new satellite models and the buzz surrounding hosted payloads, the commercial satellite sector seems to have noticed the trend of increasing demand for smaller, […]

Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) will design the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation Protected Military Satellite Communications (Milsatcom) program, the organizations announced Nov. 5.    The contract for design concepts was issued by […]

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Honeywell, Intel Corp., Lockheed Martin and RSA/EMC have founded the Cyber Security Research Alliance (CSRA) as a private, non-profit research consortium formed to develop public-private collaboration […]