Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 04-09-12] NASA has contracted United Launch Alliance (ULA) to launch two weather satellites in 2015 and 2017 on its Atlas 5 rockets, the agency confirmed April 6. ULA’s […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-09-12] French revenues declined last year in the space industry export and global satellite telecommunications markets, as France posted a national space industry revenue intake of 4.2 billion […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-05-12] United Launch Alliance (ULA) has successfully launched a covert payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) from the Vandenberg Air Force Base on a Delta 4 […]

[Satellite News 04-05-12] Alaska Airlines will test a new air traffic control system this June in Seattle that uses satellite service to navigate aircraft and allow airport controllers to keep […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 04-04-12] While Comtech subsidiary Comtech Mobile Datacom was widely expected to receive an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract and licensing agreement from the Pentagon to support its Blue […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 04-03-12] Lockheed Martin has won a $54.2 million military contract to launch and provide early on-orbit support for a third geosynchronous Earth-orbit satellite (GEO-3), Pentagon officials confirmed […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-03-12] Comtech Mobile Datacom has received a three-month indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract to support the U.S. Army’s Blue Force Tracking 1 (BFT-1) and Movement Tracking System (MTS) programs, […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-03-12] Spaceopal, a joint venture between Telespazio and German Space Agency company DLR-GfR, has completed performance verification tests on the first two Galileo satellites of the European constellation […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 04-02-12] The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) signed a $10 million consultancy deal with Maryland-based Space Partnership International (SPI) in the United States to design the nation’s […]

[Satellite News 04-03-12] Proposed military budget cuts, the degree of which are to be outlined in an upcoming report from the United States government’s defense and intelligence agencies, may threaten […]

The U.S. Air Force received a vital boost to its satellite communications capacity supply on a clear evening in mid-January, when a United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket lofted its […]

Infantry and Special Forces alike have long needed tactical communications-on-the-move manpack terminals that are flexible and quickly deployable to provide ground-based situational awareness. Used since just before World War II, […]

Boeing, Artel Partner to Sell Inmarsat Bandwidth to U.S. Government Boeing Commercial Satellite Services has entered into a cooperative business agreement with Artel to distribute Inmarsat bandwidth to U.S. government […]

The milsatcom market could be an interesting one to watch this year given that governments around the world are still in the process of shaping their future plans. What is […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-30-12] SpaceX has assembled a team of outside experts to form an independent safety advisory panel that will oversee the company’s human spaceflight system, SpaceX announced March 29. […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-30-12] Researchers at Switzerland’s Federal Polytechnic of Lausanne (EPFL) claim to have built a miniature rocket motor that could lower the price of satellite launches to one-tenth of […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-29-12] Nigeria has purchased Earth imagery resources from British observation satellites after discovering that its own recently launched, $64 million satellite project failed to provide relevant images in […]

[Satellite News 03-28-12] The Swiss Space Center hopes to obtain investments from international firms to support its recent efforts to develop a solution that will clean up space debris in […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-27-12] International Launch Services (ILS) successfully placed the Intelsat 22 satellite into a super-synchronous transfer orbit onboard a Proton M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-27-12] iDirect Government Technologies has released a satellite router that meets strict airborne communications requirements for operation on military aircraft, the company announced March 26.    The new […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-26-12] Lockheed Martin confirmed March 23 that the Global Positioning System 3 (GPS 3) satellites it is building for the Air Force Space Command are “on schedule, […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-26-12] United Launch Alliance (ULA) is scheduled to send a new classified satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) into orbit March 29 on a Delta 4 […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-22-12] ITT Exelis was awarded a $32 million contract by Lockheed Martin to build the navigation payloads for the third and fourth Global Positioning System 3 (GPS 3) […]

[Satellite News 03-22-12] The research department of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) confirmed its plans to issue a call March 27 for a rapidly deployable constellation of small, […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 03-21-12] Geospatial information solution provider GeoEye generated a 17 percent increase in its 2011 fiscal fourth quarter revenues and an 8 percent increase in its 2011 full-year […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-21-12] ViaSat has successfully fielded its new Satellite Access Manager (SAM) broadband satcom service manager for U.S. military airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations, the company announced March […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-20-12] Elwing’s European affiliate Elwing Europe has entered into an agreement with satellite manufacturer OHB Sweden to develop advanced platform technologies for satellites, the companies confirmed March 19. […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-20-12] Elbit Systems has expanded its tactical broadband satellite communication platform InterSKY 4M to include a new antenna technology that aims to offer enhanced performance and efficiency of […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-20-12] Gilat Satellite Networks’ wholly owned subsidiary Wavestream has introduced a new 80-Watt X-band Matchbox solid-state power amplifier to address the needs of military and government applications, Wavestream […]

[Satellite TODAY 03-19-12] Yahsat has signed a master service agreement with Astrium that aims to promote and lease military Ka-band capacity under the service brand YahSecure, YahSat announced March 14. […]