Government/Military

[Satellite TODAY 10-04-12] United Launch Alliance (ULA) has placed a U.S. Air Force navigation system satellite into orbit from its Cape Canaveral launch facility, ULA confirmed Oct. 4. The satellite...

[Satellite TODAY 10-03-12] The U.S. Air Force has issued more than 15 contracts under its “Protected Milsatcom Design for Affordability Risk Reduction Demonstration Study” initiative to protect military satellite communications,...

[Satellite TODAY 10-03-12] Video communications technologies provider Vislink International had rolled out a new lightweight satellite data terminal for military operations, the company announced Oct. 3.       Vislink...

[Satellite TODAY Insider 10-02-12] The board of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) has authorized a $118 million direct loan to the government of Vietnam for the...

I would like to start off by reflecting on the passing of U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong, who was not only a true icon of the space industry but of life...

On July 23, earth-imaging provider DigitalGlobe Inc. announced that it agreed to acquire competitor GeoEye Inc. for approximately $900 million. GeoEye’s principal shareholder, private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, agreed...

[Satellite TODAY 10-01-12] The European Defense Agency (EDA) has awarded a three-year contract to Astrium to provide commercial Ku-, Ka- and C-band satellite communications capacity for the defense ministries of...

[Satellite TODAY 10-01-12] The Chinese state-run Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center has sent a second satellite built for the Venezuelan government into orbit on a Long March rocket, China’s Xinhua News...

[Satellite TODAY 10-01-12] The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration temporarily substituted the non-functional (NOAA) GOES-13 weather satellite with the backup GOES-14 satellite as engineers work to fix the satellite’s...

[Satellite News 10-01-12] Attendees at the Hosted Payload Summit in Washington last week were given a detailed look at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) efforts to extract valuable...