Government/Military

While hosted payload-type deals have been relatively few and far between in the industry, there is hope that there may be some more highly innovative ones coming up. All eyes...

Canadian space and satellite company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) has been contracted by Israel Aerospace Industries to supply a communications payload solution for the Amos-6 satellite, MDA announced June...

L-3 Communications Holdings subsidiary L-3 Global Communications Solutions has inked an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide portable satellite-communications gear to the Pentagon for more than five years with a potential value...

Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) was awarded a task order by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) to provide consolidated logistics management support (CLMS) in support...

Com Dev has received a follow-on contract from Boeing Satellite Systems to supply filters, switches and ferrite components for use in NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) program, Com...

Raytheon received a $19 million contract to modify the U.S. Navy’s Multiband Terminal (NMT) to link it with the Air Force’s Enhanced Polar Satellite (EPS), the company announced.    Raytheon...

[Satellite TODAY 07-04-12] ATK has revealed an expanded crew and cargo capability on its Liberty spacecraft, which aims to eventually transport the Liberty Logistics Module or LLM, along with a...

[Satellite TODAY 07-04-12] The European Space Agency (ESA) has decided to retire its GIOVE-A satellite after confirming that its first two Galileo in-orbit validation (IOV) spacecraft were functioning nominally, the...

[Satellite News 07-03-12] Technology manufacturer ITT Exelis has completed its acquisition of Space Computer, a privately owned signal processing systems, software and algorithms developer, in an effort to strengthen its...

[Satellite TODAY 07-02-12] Nonprofit organization B612 has contracted Ball Aerospace to build the first privately funded deep space telescope that will be launched into orbit around the sun to map...