Government/Military

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and NAV CANADA have partnered on a range of technical and operational issues in support of the development and deployment of space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B), according to a written statement from NAV CANADA.

SAVIS Tegnologia has selected Advantech Wireless to provide a geographically redundant military satellite communication network system for SISFRON, the largest border security program in Latin America.

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully put its first navigation satellite – the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System 1A (IRNSS 1A) – in the geosynchronous orbit at 27 degrees to the equator

After 11 and a half years tracking sea levels, NASA’s satellite Jason 1 has ended its useful life, the agency announced

Startup company Pocket Spacecraft recently created a Kickstarter campaign to offer the public a chance to send small disc satellites into space.

U.K.-based Surrey Satellite Technology is no stranger to delivering small satellite missions, in fact, since the company’s birth in 1981, it has already launched 41 of such spacecraft.

In the search for clues about the deadly Yarnell Hill wildfire in Arizona, the University of Wisconsin's Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies turned to NOAA’s GOES 15 satellite

ISRO launched India's first navigation satellite. The Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV C22) took off at 11:41 p.m. from the Satish Dawan Space Centre in Sriharikota

The U.S. Air Force has taken delivery of the third Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO) satellite payload as part of its Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) program

A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying three GLONASS Russian government navigation satellites exploded Tuesday morning only moments after being launched