Government/Military

In one of his final initiatives as President of the United States, Barack Obama introduced an executive order coordinating efforts to prepare the country for space weather events. Since its...

Northrop Grumman has delivered mid-boom assemblies for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Astro Aerospace, a Northrop Grumman business, designed, built and tested the graphite-epoxy assemblies. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope...

Under an Authority to Proceed signed with prime contractor OHB-System AG, Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) is commencing work on eight navigation payloads for Galileo, Europe’s Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). The...

Harris Corporation has delivered a digital weather satellite instrument to the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) that will help forecasters safeguard people in the region from typhoons and other severe...

Boeing has awarded ViaSat a multi-year contract for two-channel Small Tactical Terminals (STTs) for the AH-64E Apache Guardian. Production of ViaSat’s KOR-24A Link 16 terminal will be designated for the...

ViaSat announced it received a follow-on contract from Lockheed Martin to deliver datalink communications for the integration and test phase of the U.S. Navy’s Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) program....

NanoRacks and NASA have signed the contract for Ixion, a commercial habitat concept study first announced last summer that will focus on repurposing spent launch vehicle upper stages. NanoRacks is...

The Peruvian government has made a commitment to make its national vessel tracking data publicly available through Global Fishing Watch, which provides a global view of commercial fishing activity. The...

Adaptive Optics Associates (AOX), a subsidiary of Northrop Grumman, has received a sole-source contract to provide mission-critical optical technology for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) coronagraph instrument. The...

What do you get when you mix a business jet with a spaceship? Presumably, it would result in Phantom Express, Boeing and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA)...