Government/Military

[Via Satellite 11-06-2015] Harris Corporation announced Nov. 4 that the two unfurlable mesh antenna reflectors have successfully deployed onboard the U.S. Navy’s fourth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite. Lockheed...

[Via Satellite 11-04-2015] Global MilSatCom is one of the main events for military and communications executives and officials. Here, we look at the five key learnings from day two of the...

[Via Satellite 11-04-2015] iDirect has signed a framework agreement with the Danish Acquisition and Logistics Organization (DALO), a specialized procurement center and logistics authority, to deliver hardware, software, and services...

[Via Satellite 11-02-2015] United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched the U.S. Air Force’s Global Positioning System (GPS) 2F 11 satellite Oct. 31 aboard an Atlas 5 rocket. The satellite is...

[Via Satellite 11-02-2015] The International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) 2015 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-15) kicked off today in Geneva, Switzerland. The conference, which the telecommunications industry has been preparing for, takes place...

[Via Satellite 10-30-2015] Astro Aerospace, a Northrop Grumman company, has received a contract from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to design and manufacture the radar antenna for its NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture...

[Via Satellite 10-28-2015] NASA has selected the Chair and Professor of Ohio State’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Joel Johnson to lead an agency program to help mitigate the...

[Via Satellite 10-23-2015] TeleCommunication Systems (TCS) has received $5 million in incremental funding from the U.S. Army for sustainment of the AN/TSC-198A SNAP (Secret Internet Protocol Router (SIPR) and Non-classified Internet Protocol Router (NIPR) Access Point)...

[Via Satellite 10-19-2015] Leadership forming the U.S. First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) is encouraging satellite companies to step up and play a role in building the nationwide public safety network....

[Via Satellite 10-16-2015] Orbital ATK has delivered the service module for its Cygnus spacecraft to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center for the next International Space Station (ISS) cargo mission, scheduled to...