Government/Military

[10-03-07 – Satellite Today]  Orbital Sciences Corp. has been selected by the California Institute of Technology and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to design, manufacture, integrate and test the Nuclear […]

[10-02-07 – Satellite Today]  Raytheon Co. will be allowed to continue with development of the Navy Multiband Terminal, the Navy has directed following a review of the original decision. The […]

 [10-01-07 – Satellite Today]  Qualcomm Inc. has received a contract from the U.S. Department of Transportation to provide the United States and Mexico with near a satellite-based vehicle tracking system, […]

[09-28-07 – Satellite Today]  GeoEye Inc. has secured $270 million of launch and first-year in-orbit insurance for its GeoEye-1 imaging satellite, the company announced Sept. 26. GeoEye-1, developed under the […]

After four years in Iraq providing both the U.S. government and the provisional Iraqi government with satellite telecommunications systems, Proactive Communication Inc. (PCI) is ready to expand its reach in […]

[09-26-07 – Satellite Today] Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $178 million NASA contract to design and build an instrument for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES)-R series, Lockheed Martin […]

[09-25-07 – Satellite Today]  Comtech EF Data Corp., a subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications Corp., received a contract to provide satellite communications equipment to support an unnamed U.S. government agency’s satellite-based […]

[09-25-07 – Satellite Today]  General Dynamics Satcom Technologies has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army to provide satellite communications terminals and support services for the Joint Network Node-Network […]

[09-24-07 – Satellite News]  Lockheed Martin has delivered the payload shipment module for the Flight 3 Advanced Extremely High Frequency (EHF) satellite to Northrop Grumman Space Technology, the U.S. Air […]

[09-24-07 – Satellite News]  TeleCommunications Systems Inc. (TCS) has been awarded a $2.4 million contract by the U.S. Army to provide satellite communications terminals and maintenance for the U.S. 1st […]

[09-21-07 – Satellite Today]  TeleCommunications Systems Inc. has been awarded a $6.7 million contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to provide communications products and services, the company announced Sept. 20. […]

[09-20-07 – Satellite Today] The U.S. Air Force awarded   Comtech EF Data Corp. a $5.3 million development contract for the High Data Rate Radio Frequency Ground Modem, the company announced […]

[09-20-07 – Satellite Today] The  Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST), a Dubai government organization, plans to launch its DubaiSat-1 spacecraft in 2008, the organization announced. The satellite […]

[09-20-07 – Satellite Today] The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Development and Test Wing awarded      Lockheed Martin a $2.4 million task order to support missions of […]

[09-18-07 – Satellite Today] Altium Ltd. has donated software to the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies, Space Flight Laboratory to support the school’s CanX satellite missions, the company […]

[09-18-07 – Satellite Today]  Alliant Techsystems (ATK) has delivered the U.S. Department of Defense’s Tactical Satellite 3 Spacecraft Bus (TacSat-3) to the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory for final integration […]

[09-17-07 – Satellite Today]  The General Dynamics-Lockheed Martin Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) team received a contract modification from the U.S. Army to continue development of the system as well as […]

[09-17-07 – Satellite Today]  RT Logic won a contract to demonstrate its high data rate receiver and test modulator for Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc., the company announced Sept. 17. The […]

[09-14-07 – Satellite Today]  AeroAstro has won two contracts to provide communications equipment to NASA and another unnamed U.S. government agency, the company announced Sept. 12. AeroAstro, a business unit […]

[Satellite Today – 09-13-07]  Spacenet Inc. has introduced a new mobile Emergency Communications Vehicle (ECV) for disaster recovery and first-responder organizations, the company announced Sept. 13. The ECV is based […]

[09/12/07 – Satellite Today] The Boeing Company has successfully assembled and integrated all flight hardware onto the first Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite, the company announced Sept. 12. The […]

[09/12/07 – Satellite Today]  Iridium is going to provide the Swedish Armed Forces with critical communications service, the company announced Sept. 12. The Iridium satellite services are being supplied under […]

[09-10-07 – Satellite Today] Lockheed Martin has successfully mated the spacecraft bus and the payload for the first Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous orbit (GEO-1) satellite, the company announced Sept. […]

[09-10-07 – Satellite Today]  DataPath and Qualcomm have signed a joint marketing agreement to provide integrated satellite and cellular communications solutions for military and disaster recovery teams, the company announced […]

Lockheed Martin has begun production on a reconfigured GPS 2R-M satellite to temporarily transmit a third civil signal, the company said Sept. 4. Lockheed is working with ITT under a […]

[09/03/07 – Satellite Today] The U.S. Air Force Global Positioning Systems Wing passed the initial integrated system test on the first GPS Block 2F satellite Aug. 27, the Air Force […]

[09/03/07 – Satellite Today] India placed the Insat-4CR satellite into orbit Sept. 2 in the first mission since the July 2006 failure of a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, the Indian […]

The United Kingdom House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has issued a review of the country’s space policy. The 158-page report, released in July, assesses the space sector and […]

ITT Corp. has been selected by U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to develop and deploy a satellite-based air traffic control system, the company and the FAA announced Aug. 30. The […]

[8-30-07 – Satellite News Today] Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp. will supply the U.S. National Guard with mobile satellite transceivers, control station computers and installation support under a contract valued at […]