Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 04-24-13] EUMETSAT announced the Metop-B has successfully replaced Metop-A as its prime operational polar-orbiting satellite following the end of its commissioning period. Metop-A will continue operations as long...

[Satellite TODAY 04-24-13] Satrec Initiative (SI) of South Korea and the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) of United Arab Emirates have jointly announced the development program of...

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-13] Cal-Bay Systems has introduced its Spectrum DefenderTM, a new instrument that combines both spectrum monitoring and RF recording into one portable, off-the-shelf PXI-based platform.     As FCC...

[Satellite TODAY 04-18-13] MetiSpace Technologies CEO Theresa Beech is confident that the company can make a big impact in the U.S. government market this year. GMV, the private multi-national firm,...

NASA has awarded the University of California, Berkeley, up to $200 million to build a satellite to study how the Earth's weather affects the weather at the edge of space.

NASA has unveiled its plans to develop the technology and infrastructure to retrieve asteroids for human research.

The U.S. Air Force has selected Ball Aerospace & Technologies to perform risk reduction work on the next generation of microwave sounding and imaging instruments for the Weather Satellite Follow-on program.

STMicroelectronics has announced that its Teseo II single-chip satellite-tracking ICs performed successfully in the first ground location test using Europe’s independent navigation system, Galileo.

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has signed a CA$8.3 million contract with Canada’s Department of National Defense (DND) to extend its operational support of DND’s Automated Airline Hosting and Aircraft Tasking System (AAHATS).

The University of Hawaii is planning the first satellite launch from the islands of Hawaii using the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai. The military has used the facility to test missiles but never a satellite.