Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 03-01-11] Imagery solutions provider DigitalGlobe appointed Jeffrey Tarr its new President and CEO effective April 5, the company announced Feb. 28.     Tarr succeeds CEO and Chairwoman Jill […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-28-11] The U.S. Air Force successfully demonstrated over-the-air, low-data-rate communication between an orbiting Milstar satellite and the family of advanced beyond line-of-sight terminal, the Pentagon announced Feb. 25. […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-25-11] The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) contracted Northrop Grumman and the University of Minnesota to co-develop a collaborative navigation system under AFRL’s Collaborative Robust Integrated Sensor […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-23-11] The U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) exercised an option under its existing indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity order with MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), the Canadian information solutions provider […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-23-11] The Russian Space Agency halted all Rokot missions so that it can complete an investigation of the Feb. 1 launch failure that destroyed Russia’s Geo IK-2 military […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-23-11] Inmarsat subsidiary Segovia won a four-year, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract to provide professional and technical services support to NATO security forces in Afghanistan, Segovia announced Feb. […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 02-23-11] The U.S. Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) placed another $6.8 million limited production Multi-functional Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio System (MIDS JTRS) terminal […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-21-11] Thales-Raytheon Systems has developed a mobile application for its Command View C4I product, which aims to enable users to gain situational awareness and decisionmaking information on a […]

[Satellite News 02-22-11] Based on recent growth in its hosted payload business, Boeing has established a unit within its Space and Intelligence Systems division to market commercial services to the […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-21-11] RapidEye completed and delivered its second imagery scan of China for the country’s Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR), the geospatial solutions provider announced Feb. 17.     […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-18-11] TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) was selected by Cisco Systems to operate its Cisco Internet Routing in Space (IRIS) solution on the Intelsat IS-14 satellite, TCS announced Feb. 18. […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-18-11] Arianespace launched the European Space Agency‘s (ESA) second Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV2) for the International Space Station (ISS) on an Ariane 5 rocket, Arianespace announced Feb. 16. […]

[Satellite News 02-18-11] European Commission (EC) Vice President and Commissioner Antonio Tajani wants to make sure businesses in the European Union (EU) emerge strong from the recent stretch of difficult […]

The satellite sector is poised to see a period of rapid innovation and growth, spurred by the new U.S. National Space Policy, a broadband-hungry military and planned launches of more […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-16-11] The U.S. Air Force is in negotiations with Lockheed Martin to minimize the financial impact of a main engine failure that prevented the AEHF 1 satellite from […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-15-11] U-blox and its test and measurement equipment supplier Rohde & Schwarz (R&S) concluded a simulation of the European Galileo satellite positioning system, U-blox announced Feb. 14.     […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-15-11] The U.S. Military Satellite Communications Systems Directorate awarded a $900,000 contract to Boeing to explore ways to modify existing commercial satellite capabilities to meet military satellite needs, […]

[Satellite News 02-15-11] NASA, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) and the U.S. Department of Defense revealed their 2012 fiscal year budget proposals to Congress, giving insight into […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 02-14-11] The Indian Air Force (IAF) unveiled plans to launch seven satellites over the next four to six years to provide own military and civil satellite navigation […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-14-11] Comtech Xicom Technology unveiled its X-BUC block up-converter, which is targeted to commercial and military customers using X-band capacity on Xtar and Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellites, […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-14-11] Russia will launch a new Glonass-K navigation satellite on a Soyuz rocket Feb. 24 from the Plesetsk space center, Russian Ministry of Defense spokesman Alexei Zolotukhin announced. […]

[Satellite News 02-14-11] Rene Oosterlinck was the European Space Agency’s (ESA) first full-time director of the Galileo program, serving from early 2008 through the end of 2010. Oosterlinck was tasked […]

[Satellite News 02-10-11] In February 2010, the U.S. Air Force entrusted Raytheon with the evolution of its GPS infrastructure by awarding the company with an $886 million to improve the […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-10-11] Lockheed Martin Space Systems has won a $339.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy to build the fifth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) ultra-high frequency communications satellite, […]

[Satellite TODAY Insider 02-09-11] ATK and Astrium have unveiled their new Liberty rocket under NASA‘s Commercial Crew Development-2 (CCDev-2) procurement program, combining ATK’s first stage four-segment solid rocket boosters from […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-09-11] Comtech Xicom Technology received a $1 million order from the U.S. Navy for high-power amplifiers as an expansion to an existing contract for broad spectrum of new […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-09-11] U.S. Electrodynamics (USEI) commercial satellite communications services have received mission-assurance and confidentiality compliance ratings from the U.S. Department of Defense, the company announced Feb. 8.     CapRock […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-08-11] Orbital Sciences launched a secret U.S. government payload Feb. 5 aboard a Minotaur 1 rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., Orbital announced Feb. 7.     […]

[Satellite TODAY 02-08-11] Orbit Communication Systems, a satellite communications, tracking antennas, and airborne communications-management systems provider, has implemented two of its advanced tracking and telemetry systems as part of SpaceX’s […]

[Satellite News 02-08-11] U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and French Defense Minister Alain Juppe signed a statement of principles Feb. 8 outlining a bilateral agreement between the two countries to […]