Government/Military

The U.K. is the global hub for the satellite and space insurance industry. There are, however, significant issues related to Brexit which may threaten the U.K.’s current position, and which...

In the middle of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) ambitious Space Month initiative in November, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai sat down for an interview with Via Satellite to discuss...

The European Space Agency (ESA) signed a one-year contract with ArianeGroup to study and prepare for a mission to go to the Moon with the aim of mining regolith. Regolith...

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying a payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), denoted NROL-71, lifted off from Vandenberg Air Base in California on Jan....

With the support of specialists from Istar, the Russian Satellite Communications Company (RSCC) successfully completed the installation and commissioning of five central stations. These stations use UHP equipment to provide...

Comtech revealed that Comtech PST received a multi-million dollar contract award for solid-state, high-power Radio Frequency (RF) amplifier systems from Northrop Grumman for use on the U.S. Navy’s Next Generation...

Norsat International revealed that it has sold more than $2 million in Ka-band Atom Block Upconverter (BUC) products for Communications-on-the-Move (COTM) applications across North America, Asia, and Europe. According to...

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded a contract to Airbus Defense and Space to develop a satellite bus in support of the Blackjack program. OneWeb Satellites is also a strategic joint venture...

The European Space Agency (ESA) awarded D-Orbit with a General Support Technology Program (GSTP) contract to develop a precise, in-orbit cubesat deployer. The approximately $3 million dollar (2.6 million euros) contract...

Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) completed the build of the platform for Eutelsat Quantum, the first Geostationary Orbit (GEO) telecommunications satellite that will be fully reconfigurable in orbit. The Eutelsat Quantum satellite...