Government/Military

Lockheed Martin announced that the core structure for NOAA's first next-generation geostationary weather satellite has been delivered at NASA's Stennis Space Center for propulsion system integration.

[Satellite TODAY 01-09-13] The projected costs of the Canadian government’s three-satellite Radarsat constellation program have grown from $600 million to more than $1 billion, according to several reports published Jan....

Using data from NASA’s Kepler satellite, astronomers have identified possible evidence for 461 new planets outside our solar system.

Turkey’s first high-resolution optical observation satellite, Gokturk-2, has transmitted its first images.

[Satellite TODAY 01-09-13] Blue Sky Network, a leading global provider of satellite tracking and communication solutions for aviation, land, and marine, and its reseller partner, S4A have received a Supplemental...

[Satellite TODAY 01-07-12] Aerospace manufacturer ATK will conduct a study of network-centric small satellites as an element of the United States Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) Defense...

[Satellite TODAY 01-07-12] Raytheon has added the Japanese Space Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Global Change Observation Mission 1 satellite to its Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Common Ground System (CGS), Raytheon...

Iraq has requested the supply of VSAT operations and maintenance services, equipment installation services, upgraded VSAT managed and leased bandwidth, and video teleconferencing equipment from the United States.

[Satellite TODAY 01-04-13] The General Services Administration (GSA) is developing a Network Services 2020 (NS2020) initiative that will change the government’s approach to acquiring future telecommunications from models previously used...

[Satellite TODAY 01-04-13] The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has once again delayed the joint launch of Indian-French satellite SARAL and several Canadian defense satellites. According to ISRO’s Jan. 4...