Government/Military

As the military enters a “do more with less” environment in terms of its budget, the commercial satellite communications sector finds itself in a potentially valuable position. As inevitable budget […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-28-11] ViaSat and STM Group successfully demonstrated waveform interoperability between the STM SatLink 2000 modem and the ViaSat Joint Internet Protocol Modem (JIPM) for the U.S. Department of […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-28-11] NASA has postponed its scheduled May launch of a Minotaur 4 rocket from its Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska due to its similarities to the Orbital Sciences […]

[Satellite News 04-28-11] The United States Export-Import Bank has voted to approve BNP Parabis’ application to finance Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies purchase of the Azerspace/Africasat-1A satellite from […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-27-11] Raytheon BBN Technologies was awarded $10 million in U.S. Department of Defense funding to develop technical solutions that will help maintain command and control systems for the […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-27-11] Boeing has delivered the U.S. Air Force Space Command‘s second GPS 2F satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., to prepare for launch aboard a United […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-26-11] Boeing’s GPS Operational Control Segment (OCS) has gained full operational status with the U.S. Air Force 50th Space Wing at Schriever Air Force Base, Colo., Boeing announced […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-26-11] Russian Space Forces have re-established control of its Geo-IK-2 military satellite after losing contact with the spacecraft in February, Russian Defense Ministry officials announced April 25.      […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-25-11] Egyptian National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS) Director Ayman Ad-Dosouqi has indefinitely postponed the scheduled 2013 launch of the MisrSat-2/EgyptSat-2 research satellite, according to […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-25-11] Boeing delivered the GPS 2F SV-2 satellite to the U.S. Air Force Space Command’s Cape Canaveral Station, the Air Force announced April 22.     SV-2 will be […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-22-11] Thales Alenia Space signed a 54.5 million euro ($79.6 million) contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to supply a new version of the European Geostationary Navigation […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 04-21-11] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) carrying three satellites from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in India, ISRO Chairman […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-20-11] DigitalGlobe has raised the orbit of its QuickBird satellite, the company announced April 19.     DigitalGlobe lifted QuickBird from its previous 450-kilometer orbit to a new slot […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-20-11] U.S. Space has been awarded a $291,000 contract by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center to study feasible acquisition alternatives to satisfy military satellite […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 04-19-11] United Space Alliance (USA) will implement a major workforce reduction in late July and early August following the final mission of NASA’s space shuttle program due […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-19-11] Comtech EF Data received a $1.2 million order for satellite ground station communications equipment from an unnamed systems integrator, which will deploy the equipment to support a […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-19-11] ASRC Aerospace Corp. was awarded a contract from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) to operate and maintain the agency’s Fairbanks Satellite Operations Facility in […]

[Satellite News 04-19-11] NASA has distributed $269 million to four U.S. commercial launch companies as part of the Obama administration’s National Space Policy to develop domestic alternatives to send astronauts […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-11] EMS Defense & Space received a follow-on contract from Boeing to design and fully integrate a power divider and a splitter combiner assembly for the seventh flight […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-11] United Launch Alliance (ULA) has launched a new U.S. spy satellite on an Atlas 5 rocket to support a secret national security mission for the U.S. National […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-11] Esri has signed a strategic contract with GeoEye to license a large supply of GeoEye’s high-resolution Ikonos archive imagery, the satellite imagery provider announced April 15.     […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-11] ITT Corp. has completed a critical design review for DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 satellite imaging payload at its facilities in Rochester, N.Y., ITT announced April 15.     ITT said […]

[Satellite News 04-15-11] Albania’s communist past has left the Eastern European country of 3 million people with very little terrestrial infrastructure, making it a healthy market for satellite TV and […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-14-11] Raytheon Technical Services Co., a subsidiary of Raytheon, has formed a team to bid on the U.S. Air Force’s Launch and Test Range System Integrated Support Contract, […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 04-13-11] Sanswire Corp., a developer of lighter-than-air unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), agreed to acquire the outstanding shares of stock of Global Telesat Corp., a privately held U.S. […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-13-11] Arianespace plans to launch the Yahsat 1A and Intelsat New Dawn satellites April 22.     The initial launch attempt on April 11 was halted in the final […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-13-11] The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center awarded Integral Systems a $1.7 million contract modification to the company’s Command and Control System-Consolidated (CCS-C) contract, Integral […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 04-12-11] Harris Corp. has been awarded a $2 million contract from the Canadian government to provide shipboard satellite communications terminals that offer services in X- and Ku-band, […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 04-08-11] U.S. Space, a solutions provider for government and commercial markets, has entered the mobile business by launching a new entity, U.S. Space Mobile Communications, U.S. Space […]

[Satellite TODAY 04-08-11] RapidEye has entered into an agreement with Canadian reseller Iunctus Geomatics to add the company to its distribution network and authorize Iunctus as a RapidEye product representative […]