Government/Military

The Obama administration’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget request presented this week included a proposal to pursue an environmental satellite championed by Al Gore.

Boeing is introducing a new line of small satellites through its research arm Boeing Phantom Works. The Phantom Phoenix line of satellites would weight up to 1,000 kilos and can be adapted for short-term experiments or operational missions lasting seven or more years.

Lockheed Martin has announced successful integration of two of the most important components onto its fourth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite for the U.S. Navy.

The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) has announced its oldest Earth observation satellite Radarsat-1 is unlikely to recover fully from an anomaly experienced on March 29.

Matt Perkins, CEO of Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL), has been elected Vice-Chair of the U.K. Industry Association for Space (UKspace), the trade association of the UK space industry.

NASA has announced a $200 million grant to fund the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) project.

Intelsat has signed a multi-year deal with Digital Networks, provider of business-class satellite solutions to the energy sector. Under the agreement, Digital Networks will improve its support very small aperture terminal (VSAT) communications networks in North America using Intelsat’s capacity via its satellite fleet and IntelsatOne terrestrial network.

PlanetIQ has urged Congress to exercise its oversight of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and address the systemic failures

The EDGE Innovation Network has announced the opening of its new EDGE Space Innovation Center. This marks the 13th and newest center, housed within the General Dynamics' Seabrook, Md., facility; less than two miles from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

[Satellite TODAY 03-22-13] While speaking on a military satcom panel at the Satellite 2013 conference, United States Army CIO G6 Space and Airborne Branch Senior Milsatcom Systems Analyst Edward Aymar...