Government/Military

[Via Satellite 12-15-2015] Japan is enthusiastic that changes being implemented through its most recent “Basic Plan on Space Policy” are showing the first fruits of revitalizing and stabilizing the country’s...

[Via Satellite 12-14-2015] U.K.-based Inmarsat and EM Solutions of Australia have teamed up to develop a maritime satcom terminal capable of linking with both Milsatcom and Global Xpress (GX) systems. The...

[Via Satellite 12-09-2015] Earlier this fall, Raytheon reached the final marker, Milestone C, for the Family of Advanced Beyond Line of Sight Terminal (FAB-T) program, paving the way for Low...

[Via Satellite 12-10-2015] The French Space Agency CNES and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (Eumetsat) have signed a cooperation agreement for the development of a new...

[Via Satellite 12-09-2015] Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) of its STPSat 5 satellite for the U.S. Department of Defense’s (DOD) Space Test Program...

[Via Satellite 12-07-2015] The United States government has restored the Export Import Bank of America (Ex-Im Bank) with the recent passage of the “Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act,” which...

[Via Satellite 12-03-2015] The fourth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite finished on-orbit testing on Nov. 30, and has been accepted by the U.S. Navy. Launched Sept. 2, MUOS 4...

[Via Satellite 12-01-2015] Outcomes from the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) 2015 World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC-15) turned out to be more favorable than many feared leading up to the event, which...

[Via Satellite 12-01-2015] The Australia Defence Force (ADF) and the United States military partnered with Hughes Network Systems’ Defense and Intelligence Systems Division (DISD) at Talisman Sabre 2015 to test...

[Via Satellite 11-30-2015] SES and Commission Electorale Nationale Independante (CENI), the official electoral body of Burkina Faso, partnered to enable secure digital transmission of the results of the Nov. 29...